Stanley Lai

Prof. Stanley Lai is a Professor of Experimental Particle Physics at the Institute of Physics, University of Göttingen, Germany, with secondary membership in the Institute of Informatics. He conducts research as a member of the ATLAS experiment at CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC), focusing on proton-proton collisions at 13/14 TeV to investigate fundamental particles and electroweak symmetry breaking.

His educational background includes:

• B.A.Sc. from the University of Toronto (1999)
• M.Sc. from the University of Toronto (2001)
• Ph.D. from the University of Toronto (2007)

Prof. Lai's research centers on precision measurements of the Higgs boson's properties—including quantum numbers and couplings—to deepen understanding of electroweak symmetry breaking. He actively pursues searches for new physics beyond the Standard Model at TeV energy scales, leveraging the unprecedented collision energies of the LHC. His work bridges theoretical predictions with experimental validation through the ATLAS detector.

He joined the University of Göttingen in 2015 as a Professor, following his tenure as Akademischer Rat (permanent academic position) at the University of Freiburg (2011-2015) and Postdoctoral Researcher there (2006-2011).