Dr Harry Cliff

I’m a particle physicist working on the LHCb experiment, a huge particle detector buried 100 metres underground at CERN near Geneva. I’m a member of an international team of around 1400 physicists, engineers and computer scientists who are using LHCb to study the basic building blocks of our universe, in search of answers to some of the biggest questions in modern physics.

I also spend a big chunk of my time sharing my love of physics with the public. I’ve published two popular science books, Space Oddities, which was published in 2024 and How To Make An Apple Pie From Scratch, published in 2021. From 2012 to 2018 I held a joint post between Cambridge and the Science Museum in London, where I curated two major exhibitions: Collider (2013) and The Sun (2018). I particularly enjoy talking about science in person and have given a large number of public talks, including at TED and the Royal Institution, alongside appearances on television, radio and podcasts.