Tracey Berry

Dr Tracey Berry is Director of External Engagement for EPMS School (Sciences) and a senior lecturer at Royal Holloway, University of London. Her research is on the highest energy particle collider in the world, the Large Hadron Collider, at CERN in Geneva. She leads a research group to search for evidence of new/exotic physics, such as evidence of extra-dimensions or dark matter. She also lectures maths and physics to undergraduates.

She went to a mixed comprehensive school and was the only girl in her A-level physics class of 30 students. She completed her undergraduate and postgraduate degrees at St Edmund Hall, Oxford University. Her PhD included working for a year at Fermilab, near Chicago in the USA. She then attained a PPARC postdoctoral fellowship, so moved to the University of Liverpool, before becoming a lecturer at Royal Holloway, University of London. 

She loves sport (netball, running (half/full marathons) and swimming), travel and gardening. She also has spent 15 years championing equality, diversity and inclusion within her Department, University, nationally and internationally and co-set up a Women In Physics Group which has been running for over a decade.