member profiles

“I have been part of the ATLAS collaboration for the past 8 years. As a PhD student at the University of Texas at Austin, I worked on several precision measurements of the Higgs boson and the top quark. I was one of the lead analyzers and an analysis coordinator for the recent ATLAS paper on the first observation of single top quark + photon production. My current work is focused on the searches for long-lived particles in proton-proton collisions, upgrades for the Inner Tracking for HL-LHC, and run-3 ATLAS operations.”

Harish Potti, University of Adelaide

In the ATLAS collaboration, early career members make up more than 50% of the collaboration (>3000 out of ~ 5900 people). The Early Career Scientist Board (ECSB) is created to represent the best interests of the young scientists in the ATLAS collaboration.

It is also a direct advisory group to the ATLAS collaboration board and the ATLAS management. The ECSB consists of seven scientists at three career levels: doctoral students; post-doctoral scientists; junior academics and research staff. Centre postdoc Harish Potti is one of the seven scientists on this board.

Harish’s role on the ECSB is to represent the views and needs of the young scientists to the ATLAS collaboration board and the management and help to organise various social events, software tutorials, and soft skills workshops.

Harish is also an active member of the Centre’s EDI Committee. He is promoting a culture of respect and inclusion across the Centre in this position. He has harnessed these skills and uses his experiences including those on the ECSB to mentor masters and PhD students in the Centre.