We are pleased to announce that Drs. Elizabeth Brost and Edith Zinhle Buthelezi are the motivational speakers for the LHC Job Matching Event Spring 2023! They will showcase their personal journey from their early career beginnings as students to their current positions. They will also provide a new perspective on how to tackle the challenges lying between early career scientists and their future dream position, providing the much-needed motivation for people wishing to follow their footsteps.
Anyone working on a CERN experiment is welcome to attend the talk, including people not joining the JMEv job sessions!
Dr. Elizabeth Brost
Elizabeth Brost is a scientist at Brookhaven National Laboratory, and is a member of the ATLAS Collaboration at CERN. She received her PhD in 2016 from the University of Oregon, and her thesis used ATLAS data to study Beyond-the-Standard-Model decays of the top quark. She then moved to Northern Illinois University for a postdoc position, where she began working on Higgs pair production. She served as a convener of the ATLAS DiHiggs subgroup from 2019-2021, and is currently one of two ATLAS Higgs and Diboson Searches group conveners. Liza is also interested in the trigger and data acquisition system at ATLAS. She has been involved in various parts of the TDAQ upgrade, including several years of coordinating the ATLAS TDAQ Physics, Performance, and Event Selection studies group for the HL-LHC upgrade.
Dr. Edith Zinhle Buthelezi
Edith Zinhle Buthelezi holds a Ph.D. in Nuclear Physics. She is a Senior Physicist at the National Research Foundation (NRF) – iThemba LABS in Somerset West (South Africa), where she has been employed since February 2000. She is an Honorary Associate Professor at the School of Physics at the University of Witwatersrand (Johannesburg, South Africa). Her research interest is High Energy Particle Physics/Heavy Ion Physics. She has been an active member of the ALICE Collaboration since 2008, with main topics covering heavy flavour and electroweak boson studies. Mentoring Postdoctoral fellows and supervising Ph.D. and MSc. students are essential aspects of her job.
