Sinead Farrington

Farrington was born in Torphins, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, to John Farrington, a Professor of Geography at the University of Aberdeen, and Bernadette, a primary school teacher. She has one younger brother Conor. She attended St Margaret's School for Girls in Aberdeen before studying physics at the University of Edinburgh. She remained in Scotland for her doctoral research, moving to the University of Glasgow.{{Cite web|title=Sinead Farrington {{!}} Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists|url=http://blavatnikawards.org/honorees/profile/sinead-farrington/|access-date=2020-12-10|website=blavatnikawards.org|language=en}} Her research was on a measurement of the lifetime of the strange B meson as part of the Collider Detector at Fermilab (CDF) collaboration.{{Cite web| title=University of Glasgow – Schools – School of Physics & Astronomy – Research – Research Groups – Particle Physics Experiment – Postgraduate Opportunities – Theses – 2004 | url=https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/physics/research/groups/particlephysicsexperiment/pg/theses/2004/ | access-date=2020-12-10 | website=www.gla.ac.uk | publisher=University of Glasgow | location=UK }}

After completing her doctorate, Farrington joined the University of Liverpool as a research Fellow and whilst based at Fermilab co-led the CDF team that first established matter-antimatter oscillations in the B⁰_s system. Farrington went on to hold a Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) advanced fellowship at the University of Oxford and a junior Kurti fellowship at Brasenose College, Oxford. In 2011 she joined the department of physics at the University of Warwick where she set up her own research group on ATLAS. During this period she co-led the team on ATLAS that measured the decay of the Higgs boson to tau leptons establishing for the first time a Yukawa coupling of a scalar Higgs to fermions. She moved to the University of Edinburgh in 2018.{{citation needed|date=December 2020}}

She has also held a CERN associateship, is a senior experimental fellow at the Institute for Particle Physics Phenomenology at Durham University{{Cite web|title=Senior experimental fellowships {{!}} Institute for Particle Physics Phenomenology|url=https://www.ippp.dur.ac.uk/senior-experimental-fellowships|access-date=2020-12-11|website=www.ippp.dur.ac.uk}} and is a visiting professor at the University of Oxford.{{citation needed|date=December 2020}} She was awarded a European Research Council consolidator grant in 2018, to develop triggers and analysis techniques to allow searches for long-lived particles decaying to tau particles at the Large Hadron Collider.{{Cite web|title=Opening the Third Generation: The Search for Long-Lived Fundamental Particles|url=https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/772357|access-date=2020-12-10|website=ERC}}

Since 2019, Farrington has been the Principal Investigator (spokesperson) for the 15 UK institutes on the ATLAS collaboration.{{Cite web|title=ATLAS UK|url=http://atlas.ac.uk/|access-date=2020-12-12|website=ATLASUK|language=en}}

In 2020 Farrington was named the Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists Faculty Winner for the United Kingdom.{{Cite web|last=McAlpine|first=Dayna|date=2020-12-09|title=An Edinburgh Uni professor is the 'dinosaur consultant' for Jurassic World|url=https://www.edinburghlive.co.uk/news/edinburgh-news/edinburgh-scientist-dinosaur-consultant-jurassic-19424874|access-date=2020-12-11|website=edinburghlive|language=en}} She was elected to the Fellowship of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2022.{{cite web|url=https://rse.org.uk/fellowship/professor-sinead-farrington/|title=Professor Sinead Farrington|work=Fellows|publisher=Royal Society of Edinburgh|access-date=2022-10-31}}

• {{Cite journal|last1=ATLAS Collaboration|last2=Aad|first2=G.|last3=Abbott|first3=B.|last4=Abdinov|first4=O.|last5=Abdallah|first5=J.|last6=Abeloos|first6=B.|last7=Aben|first7=R.|last8=Abolins|first8=M.|last9=Aben|first9=R.|last10=Abolins|first10=M.|last11=AbouZeid|first11=O. S.|date=2016|title=Test of CP invariance in vector-boson fusion production of the Higgs boson using the Optimal Observable method in the ditau decay channel with the ATLAS detector|url= |journal=The European Physical Journal C|language=en|volume=76|issue=12|pages=658|doi=10.1140/epjc/s10052-016-4499-5|issn=1434-6044|pmc=5335599|pmid=28316497|arxiv=1602.04516 |bibcode=2016EPJC...76..658A }}
• {{Cite journal|last1=The ATLAS collaboration|last2=Aad|first2=G.|last3=Abbott|first3=B.|last4=Abdallah|first4=J.|last5=Abdel Khalek|first5=S.|last6=Abdinov|first6=O.|last7=Aben|first7=R.|last8=Abi|first8=B.|last9=Abolins|first9=M.|last10=AbouZeid|first10=O. S.|last11=Abramowicz|first11=H.|date=April 2015|title=Evidence for the Higgs-boson Yukawa coupling to tau leptons with the ATLAS detector|journal=Journal of High Energy Physics|language=en|volume=2015|issue=4|pages=117|doi=10.1007/JHEP04(2015)117|issn=1029-8479|doi-access=free|arxiv=1501.04943|bibcode=2015JHEP...04..117A }}
• {{Cite journal|last1=CDF Collaboration|last2=Abulencia|first2=A.|display-authors=et al.|date=December 2006|title=Observation of B⁰_s - anti-B⁰_s oscillations|url=https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.97.242003|journal=Physical Review Letters|volume=97|issue=24|pages=242003|doi=10.1103/PhysRevLett.97.242003|arxiv=hep-ex/0609040|pmid=17280271|hdl=10067/815500151162165141|hdl-access=free}}

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