Rate My Professor Tim Gershon

Professor Tim Gershon is a professor in the Department of Physics within the Faculty of Science at the University of Warwick. He earned his PhD from the University of Cambridge in 2000. After completing his doctorate, he worked as a postdoctoral researcher at KEK in Tsukuba, Japan, on the Belle experiment from 2001 to 2005. He joined the University of Warwick in 2005, where he contributed to the BaBar experiment at SLAC and began work on the LHCb experiment at CERN in 2008. At Warwick, he leads the Elementary Particle Physics group's efforts on LHCb. Gershon has held prominent leadership positions in the LHCb collaboration, serving as Physics Coordinator from 2012 to 2013 and UK Spokesperson from 2016 to 2020. In February 2026, he was elected as the next international Spokesperson for the LHCb collaboration at CERN, for a three-year term starting in July 2026. He is the Principal Investigator of a research and development project focused on the LHCb Upgrade II since 2020. Additionally, he is a member and former co-leader of the Heavy Flavor Averaging Group (HFLAV), a member of the Particle Data Group (PDG), and an associate editor for The European Physical Journal C.

Gershon's research specializes in flavour physics and CP violation, with a focus on neutrino and heavy quark physics. His work involves testing the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa model of CP violation effects, which earned Kobayashi and Maskawa the 2008 Nobel Prize in Physics, through measurements from B-factory experiments and LHCb. He received the 2018 Institute for Particle Physics Phenomenology Senior Experimental Fellowship for the project 'Towards the Ultimate Precision in Flavour Physics.' Gershon teaches the second half of the PX284 module on Statistical Mechanics, Electromagnetic Theory, and Optics in 2025/26, and delivers graduate lectures on flavour physics. He has supervised numerous PhD students, many of whom have progressed to postdoctoral positions or academic roles at institutions worldwide. His contributions include extensive public outreach through popular science articles, conference talks, colloquia, seminars, and lectures.