Biography of Tim Gershon

I did my Ph.D at the University of Cambridge, UK, working on the NA48 experiment, looking for direct CP violation in kaons.

Then in 2001 I moved to KEK, Japan to work on Belle, trying to measure the angle gamma of the CKM Unitarity triangle (which I have been doing on-and-off ever since).  I also worked a bit on charmless B decays, and got interested in developing new ideas for measurements, and promoting the physics case of upgrades to the B factories.

In 2005 I moved to the University of Warwick, UK, switching from Belle to BaBar and working mainly on Dalitz plot analyses of charmless B decays.  I edited the physics chapter of the Conceptual Design Report for the proposed SuperB project.  I was deputy chair of the BaBar Publications Board 2010-11.

In 2008 I joined LHCb together with the Warwick group.  We are been involved in software for the VELO silicon detector and its upgrade and for the EvtGen Monte Carlo package.  Our physics interests cover gamma measurements and Dalitz plot analyses, expanding to cover also rare decays, spectroscopy and other topics.  I was LHCb Physics Co-ordinator 2012-13.

I'm also involved in the Heavy Flavour Averaging Group, with responsibility for providing world averages of various quantities in heavy flavour physics.  For the last few years, I have been a co-author of the review on CP violation in the quark sector in the PDG.  I'm involved in advisory and organising committees for various conferences and workshops in the field.