Career← Previous revisionRevision as of 04:19, 13 October 2026 Line 18: Line 18: == Career == == Career == In 1987, she became a fellow in the Experimental Physics Division at [[CERN]]. She joined the [[Cavendish Laboratory]] in 1989 on a five-year SERC Advanced Fellowship.{{Cite web|url=http://whatiseeproject.com/2014/08/meet-the-ambassadors-professor-valerie-gibson/|title=Meet the ambassadors: Professor Valerie Gibson {{!}} What I see|website=whatiseeproject.com|language=en-GB|access-date=2018-03-18}} In 1989 she also received a Stokes Senior Research Fellowship at [[Pembroke College, Cambridge|Pembroke College]]. She was appointed as University Lecturer and Fellow of [[Trinity College, Cambridge|Trinity College]] in 1994. She was awarded a [[Royal Society]] [[Leverhulme Trust]] Fellowship in 2007.{{Cite web|url=https://royalsociety.org/people/valerie-gibson-7014/|title=Valerie Gibson|website=royalsociety.org|language=en-gb|access-date=2018-03-18}} Gibson was appointed Professor in 2009, appointed Head of the High Energy Physics Group in the Cavendish Laboratory from 2013 until her retirement in 2023.{{Cite web|url=https://www.phy.cam.ac.uk/directory/gibsonv|title=Professor Valerie Gibson — Department of Physics|last=kla29@cam.ac.uk|website=www.phy.cam.ac.uk|date=23 July 2013 |language=en|access-date=2018-03-18}} In 1987, she became a fellow in the Experimental Physics Division at [[CERN]]. She joined the [[Cavendish Laboratory]] in 1989 on a five-year SERC Advanced Fellowship.{{Cite web|url=http://whatiseeproject.com/2014/08/meet-the-ambassadors-professor-valerie-gibson/|title=Meet the ambassadors: Professor Valerie Gibson {{!}} What I see|website=whatiseeproject.com|language=en-GB|access-date=2018-03-18}} In 1989, she also received a Stokes Senior Research Fellowship at [[Pembroke College, Cambridge|Pembroke College]]. She was appointed as University Lecturer and Fellow of [[Trinity College, Cambridge|Trinity College]] in 1994. She was awarded a [[Royal Society]] [[Leverhulme Trust]] Fellowship in 2007.{{Cite web|url=https://royalsociety.org/people/valerie-gibson-7014/|title=Valerie Gibson|website=royalsociety.org|language=en-gb|access-date=2018-03-18}} Gibson was appointed Professor in 2009, appointed Head of the High Energy Physics Group in the Cavendish Laboratory from 2013 until her retirement in 2023.{{Cite web|url=https://www.phy.cam.ac.uk/directory/gibsonv|title=Professor Valerie Gibson — Department of Physics|last=kla29@cam.ac.uk|website=www.phy.cam.ac.uk|date=23 July 2013 |language=en|access-date=2018-03-18}} She undertook her PhD research on the [[EMC Effect]] at the [[European Muon Collaboration]] experiment at [[CERN]]. As a CERN Fellow, she investigated Direct [[CP violation]] and [[CPT symmetry|CPT]] conservation in the [[Kaon]] system on the [[NA31 experiment]]. She has worked on the [[LHCb experiment]] since the first beam of particles were injected into the [[Large Hadron Collider]] in 2008.{{Cite web|url=http://www.astronomynow.com/080910LHClightsupfutureofparticlephysics.html|title=080910 LHC lights up future of particle physics|website=www.astronomynow.com|access-date=2018-03-18|archive-date=19 March 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180319151202/http://www.astronomynow.com/080910LHClightsupfutureofparticlephysics.html|url-status=dead}} Gibson has overall responsibility for data acquisition from the [[Ring-imaging Cherenkov detector|ring imaging Cherenkov detectors]].{{Cite web|url=http://www.rae.ac.uk/Submissions/ra5a.aspx?id=112&type=hei&subid=2715|title=rae 2008 : submissions : ra5a|website=www.rae.ac.uk|language=en|access-date=2018-03-18|archive-date=19 March 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180319084740/http://www.rae.ac.uk/Submissions/ra5a.aspx?id=112&type=hei&subid=2715|url-status=dead}} Gibson was the UK spokesperson for the [[LHCb experiment]] between 2004 and 2008{{Cite web|url=http://collection.sciencemuseum.org.uk/people/cp135237/valerie-gibson|title=Valerie Gibson|website=Science Museum Collection|access-date=2018-03-18}} and was Chair of the LHCb Collaboration Board from 2016 until 2020. She led the University of Cambridge's LHCb team until 2022.{{Cite web|url=http://www.hep.phy.cam.ac.uk/people/individual.php?surname=Gibson&givenname=Val|title=Val Gibson - HEP Group, Cavendish Laboratory|website=www.hep.phy.cam.ac.uk|language=en|access-date=2018-03-18|archive-date=19 March 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180319151202/http://www.hep.phy.cam.ac.uk/people/individual.php?surname=Gibson&givenname=Val|url-status=dead}}{{Cite web|url=https://lhcb-conv.web.cern.ch/lhcb-conv/StructureDefault.html|title=Organization|website=lhcb-conv.web.cern.ch|language=en|access-date=2018-03-18|archive-date=12 July 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190712163531/https://lhcb-conv.web.cern.ch/lhcb-conv/StructureDefault.html|url-status=dead}} Gibson was part of the discovery of [[CP violation]] in the [[Kaon]] system.{{Cite web|url=http://www.atlanticspeakerbureau.com/professor-valerie-gibson/speaker|title=Professor Valerie Gibson, from Atlantic Speaker Bureau|website=www.atlanticspeakerbureau.com|language=en|access-date=2018-03-18}} She undertook her PhD research on the [[EMC Effect]] at the [[European Muon Collaboration]] experiment at [[CERN]]. As a CERN Fellow, she investigated Direct [[CP violation]] and [[CPT symmetry|CPT]] conservation in the [[Kaon]] system on the [[NA31 experiment]]. She has worked on the [[LHCb experiment]] since the first beam of particles were injected into the [[Large Hadron Collider]] in 2008.{{Cite web|url=http://www.astronomynow.com/080910LHClightsupfutureofparticlephysics.html|title=080910 LHC lights up future of particle physics|website=www.astronomynow.com|access-date=2018-03-18|archive-date=19 March 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180319151202/http://www.astronomynow.com/080910LHClightsupfutureofparticlephysics.html|url-status=dead}} Gibson has overall responsibility for data acquisition from the [[Ring-imaging Cherenkov detector|ring imaging Cherenkov detectors]].{{Cite web|url=http://www.rae.ac.uk/Submissions/ra5a.aspx?id=112&type=hei&subid=2715|title=rae 2008 : submissions : ra5a|website=www.rae.ac.uk|language=en|access-date=2018-03-18|archive-date=19 March 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180319084740/http://www.rae.ac.uk/Submissions/ra5a.aspx?id=112&type=hei&subid=2715|url-status=dead}} Gibson was the UK spokesperson for the [[LHCb experiment]] between 2004 and 2008{{Cite web|url=http://collection.sciencemuseum.org.uk/people/cp135237/valerie-gibson|title=Valerie Gibson|website=Science Museum Collection|access-date=2018-03-18}} and was Chair of the LHCb Collaboration Board from 2016 until 2020. She led the University of Cambridge's LHCb team until 2022.{{Cite web|url=http://www.hep.phy.cam.ac.uk/people/individual.php?surname=Gibson&givenname=Val|title=Val Gibson - HEP Group, Cavendish Laboratory|website=www.hep.phy.cam.ac.uk|language=en|access-date=2018-03-18|archive-date=19 March 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180319151202/http://www.hep.phy.cam.ac.uk/people/individual.php?surname=Gibson&givenname=Val|url-status=dead}}{{Cite web|url=https://lhcb-conv.web.cern.ch/lhcb-conv/StructureDefault.html|title=Organization|website=lhcb-conv.web.cern.ch|language=en|access-date=2018-03-18|archive-date=12 July 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190712163531/https://lhcb-conv.web.cern.ch/lhcb-conv/StructureDefault.html|url-status=dead}} Gibson was part of the discovery of [[CP violation]] in the [[Kaon]] system.{{Cite web|url=http://www.atlanticspeakerbureau.com/professor-valerie-gibson/speaker|title=Professor Valerie Gibson, from Atlantic Speaker Bureau|website=www.atlanticspeakerbureau.com|language=en|access-date=2018-03-18}}