“Antimatter is one of the biggest mysteries we have in physics today”
Tara Shears is a particle physicist whose research centres on using hadron colliders to investigate questions of antimatter. She is the first female Professor of Physics at the University of Liverpool, and is one of the leading British scientists at CERN, where she initiated and developed the electroweak and exotica physics working group. Shears is also a highly regarded science communicator, giving talks, hosting radio shows and collaborating with numerous artists and writers to bring her research to a wider audience.
“We believe Tara to be one of the best communicators of science we have ever seen.” - TEDx