Gareth Bird

Gareth Bird is a Research Associate at the University of Cambridge's Cavendish Laboratory, specializing in High Energy Physics (HEP) within the ATLAS experiment at CERN. His work focuses on developing hardware and software solutions for particle detection, particularly through innovative 'Back to the Future' triggers designed to identify exotic particles.

• Education: MPhys from University of Oxford, PhD from University of Birmingham
• Research: Bridging fundamental physics with high-speed hardware/data processing for LHC experiments
• Supervision: Actively mentors students in physics
• Collaborations: Works with theorists to develop new signal models
• Department: Department of Physics - The Cavendish Laboratory

His expertise supports the ATLAS experiment's hardware trigger system, which filters 40 million events per second to identify significant data for storage and analysis.