ERC Starting Grant for Lesya Shchutska
Three researchers are to receive ERC Starting Grants from the European Research Council (ERC) for their projects at ETH Zurich, among them particle physicist Lesya Shchutska. These prestigious grants are awarded to talented individuals from around Europe at the start of their careers
The project of Lesya Shchutska at a glance:
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN is successfully operating at a record-breaking energy and is expected to deliver an enormous dataset of proton-proton collisions in the next 6 years. Lesya Shchutska will take advantage of both the unprecedented collision energy and the large number of events to be recorded in order to search for signs of new particles – Majorana neutrinos – which could uncover the nature of dark matter, provide an explanation for the matter-antimatter asymmetry of the universe or answer questions about the origin of neutrino masses. To achieve this, she will establish and lead a new multisignature research programme at the CMS experiment. This programme will exploit both the intensity and energy frontiers opening up at the LHC and can be further expanded at the high-luminosity LHC (HL-LHC).