Nicole Skidmore

Dr. Nicole Skidmore (Assistant professor)

I am an assistant professor at the University of Warwick working on the LHCb experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN.

My research focuses on physics beyond the Standard Model in beauty meson decays and computing in “big-science”.

I undertook my Masters degree at the University of Southampton before taking a PhD at the University of Bristol. After a 3-year post-doctoral position in Germany I returned the UK at the University of Manchester. Finally, in 2023, I secured a faculty position at the University of Warwick.

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LHCb research

I have been a member of the LHCb collaboration for 12 years. I am currently the project lead for the Data Processing and Analysis (DPA) project at LHCb, responsible for the processing and analysis of data from when it leaves the online trigger system to physics publications. DPA also includes quantum computing, analysis preservation and open data.

For my physics analysis work I have undertaken projects in:

Pentaquark searches in b-baryon decays
Measurements of CP-violation in beauty to open charm decays
Amplitude analysis of four body D-meson decays
Lepton flavour universality tests