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Dr Seth Zenz

Seth

Reader in Experimental Particle Physics

Email: s.zenz@qmul.ac.uk
Room Number: G.O. Jones Building, room 116
Office Hours: By Appointment (email me!)

Profile

Seth Zenz is an expert on Big Data analysis at the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC) who joined QMUL in 2018. He works on Higgs Boson measurements, the ATLAS Inner Tracker upgrade, new silicon detector technologies, and data science and data analysis teaching.

Teaching

I led on the development of Data Science and Data Analytics apprenticeship programmes within the School of Physical and Chemical Sciences through September 2025. In this capacity I developed many modules, particularly for 2024 expansion of the Digital and Technology Solutions Professional programme. My current and past teaching in this area includes:

  • Next Generation Computing (developer, inaugural MO, taught 2025-)
  • The Data Landscape (developer, inaugural MO, taught 2023-5)
  • Introduction to Data Programming (developer, inaugural MO, taught 2022-23)
  • Introduction to Data Science (inaugural MO, taught 2021-23)
  • Statistical Data Analysis (taught 2020-22)

I also developed the following modules that have been delivered with my support as Deputy Module Organiser:

  • Data Analysis and Data Solutions (2023-5)
  • Professional Software and Career Practices (2023-5)
  • Fundamentals of Programming (2024-6)

Research

Research Interests:

See Seth Zenz’s research profile pages including details of research interests, publications, and live grants.

 

Supervision

Below is a list of potential projects for PhD students. Other possibilities can also be discussed.

Public Engagement

Seth is a member of the STFC Advisory Panel on Public Engagement and the Communication and Outreach Lead for the Centre for Fundamental Physics. He is the lead academic contact for the ATLAS Open Data project within Physics Research in School Environments.  He was the Outreach Coordinator for the Department of Physics and Astronomy through July 2025. He received a Spark Award from the STFC for developing his Higgs Boson Dominoes project. He has held both large and small internal grants from the Queen Mary Centre for Public Engagement (CPE), was on the Small Grants Panel in 2021-2, and was on the Large Grants Panel in 2022-3.  He won the 2021 SEPNet Public Engagement Champion award for his work, and was interviewed about it in April 2021.

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