Rate My Professor Tom Hadavizadeh

Dr. Tom Hadavizadeh is a Lecturer in the School of Physics and Astronomy at Monash University. He earned an MSci in Experimental and Theoretical Physics from the University of Cambridge in 2014 and a DPhil in Particle Physics from the University of Oxford in 2018, with his doctoral thesis titled 'Rare hadronic decays of B mesons at LHCb.' After completing his doctorate, he worked as a Postdoctoral Research Assistant at the University of Oxford from April 2018 to January 2020. He joined Monash University as a Lecturer in December 2022 and is currently accepting PhD students. As a member of the LHCb collaboration at CERN's Large Hadron Collider, Hadavizadeh contributes to experimental particle physics research focused on rare decays of particles containing beauty quarks, measurements of matter-antimatter differences in charm quark decays, production of charm and beauty quarks via the strong force, and simulations of particle collisions. He serves as a Chief Investigator on the ARC-funded project 'Enabling the future of the Australian collider physics program' from 2025 to 2028.

Under Hadavizadeh's leadership, the Experimental Particle Physics Group at Monash University received the Research Team of the Year Award in Science in 2025 for their contributions to the LHCb experiment, advancing understanding of fundamental particles and forces beyond the Standard Model. He was also recognized as a laureate of the 2025 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics, shared among 13 Monash researchers for work on LHCb and other CERN experiments, including discoveries like the Higgs boson and exotic multi-quark particles. His key publications include 'The role of multi-parton interactions in doubly-heavy hadron production' (European Physical Journal C, 2022), 'Search for CP violation in D(s)+ → h+π0 and D(s)+ → h+η decays' (Journal of High Energy Physics, 2021), 'Picosecond timing of charged particles using the TORCH detector' (Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research A, 2022), 'Amplitude analysis of B+ → ψ(2S)K+π+π− decays' (Journal of High Energy Physics, 2025), and 'Analysis of Λ0b → pK−μ+μ− decays' (Journal of High Energy Physics, 2024). These efforts provide critical insights into potential new physics through precision measurements of rare processes.