Heather Gray
ATLAS Group, Physics Department, University of California, Berkeley
Research Focus
Research Interests
About Heather
I attended the University of Cape Town in South Africa until 2005 where I obtained a BSc, BSc (Hons) and a MSc in Physics. I then attended the California Institute of Technology and obtained her Ph.D. in Physics in 2011. I then worked at CERN as a Research Fellow/ Staff Scientist until 2017 at LBNL as a Divisional Fellow before joining the UC Berkeley faculty as an assistant professor in 2019. I am an experimental particle physicist working on the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) just outside Geneva in Switzerland. The primary focus of my research is the Higgs boson. I study its properties, and, in particular, how it interacts with different types of quarks, including top, bottom and charm quarks. Other research interests include the development of track reconstruction algorithms, silicon detectors and algorithms for quantum computers. A theme throughout my research is applications of machine learning.
Honors
DOE Early Career Award
IUPAP C11 Young Scientist Prize
Sloan Fellowship
Education
Ph.D.
Physics, California Institute of Technology, 2011
Master's
Physics, University of Cape Town, South Africa, 2005
Bachelor's
Physics, Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Cape Town, South Africa, 2001
