Prof. Varvell obtained his undergraduate degree from the University of Western Australia and his D.Phil from the University of Oxford. From there he held post-doctoral positions at the University of Birmingham, UK, and at ANSTO. He was an ARC Senior Research Fellow at the University of Sydney from 1997 to 2001, and held further research-only positions there until 2005 when he switched to a teaching and research position. He is currently the Director of the University of Sydney Node of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Particle Physics at the Terascale. Prof. Varvell's research interests lie in experimental particle physics. Over his career he has worked on six international experiments based at CERN, Fermilab and KEK, embracing neutrino physics, flavour physics with B-mesons, and hadron collider physics. His current research interests are primarily focussed on rare leptonic and semi-leptonic decays of B-mesons; understanding the properties of the recently discovered Higgs boson; and searching for new physics beyond the Standard Model using the ATLAS experiment at CERN's LHC and the Belle and Belle II experiments at KEK in Japan.
K.E. Varvell in G. Aad et al. (ATLAS Collaboration), "Simultaneous measurements of the $t\bar{t}$, $W^+W^-$, and $Z/\gamma^{*}\rightarrow\tau\tau$ production cross-sections in $pp$ collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 7$ TeV with the ATLAS detector". Phys. Rev. D. 91:052005, (2015).
K.E. Varvell in G. Aad et al. (ATLAS Collaboration), “Observation of a new particle in the search for the Standard Model Higgs boson with the ATLAS detector at the LHC”. Phys. Lett. B. 716:1–29, (2012).
A. Sibidanov, K.E. Varvell et al. (Belle Collaboration), “Study of exclusive B→Xuℓν decays and extraction of |V$_{ub}$| using full reconstruction tagging at the Belle experiment”, Phys. Rev. D. 88:032005, (2013).
K.E. Varvell in K. Abe et al. (Belle Collaboration), “Observation of large CP violation in the neutral B meson system”. Phys. Rev. Lett. 87:091802, (2001).
K.E. Varvell et al. (WA59 Collaboration), “Measurement of the structure functions $F_2$ and $xF_3$ and comparison with QCD predictions including kinematical and dynamical higher twist effects”. Zeitschrift fur Physik C-Particles and Fields, 36:1–13, (1987).
