Lesya Shchutska

Current Work Our research is focused on testing the boundaries of the Standard Model of particle physics and on looking for new phenomena which might explain unanswered puzzles in the fundamental description of the Universe. The examples of such puzzles would be dark matter nature, matter-antimatter asymmetry of the Universe or very small but non-zero neutrino masses.The main instrument for these tasks is the LHCb detector at CERN, where the analyses of the data collected in the LHC proton-proton collisions are ongoing. We are also conducting searches for heavy neutral leptons with the CMS experiment at CERN in the context of the ERC Starting grant "MajorNet", ID 758316. At the same time, the R&D activities for future facilities and experiments which exploit complementary strategies are taking place. In particular, we contribute to the operation of the SND@LHC detector, to the R&D for the fixed target program with the SHiP detector to be built at the CERN beam-dump facility at the SPS, and to the R&D for the Future Circular Collider at CERN. Membership in the international collaborations 2025-present: FCC studies collaboration2023-present: DRD4 collaboration2020-present: SND@LHC collaboration2019-present: LHCb collaboration2014-present: SHiP collaboration2012-2019: CMS collaboration2008-2012: PEBS collaboration2005-2008: LHCb collaboration Professionals experiences Assistant Professor of Experimental Particle Physics 2018–2019 ETH ZürichSenior research associate (Oberassistentin) 2017–2017 ETH ZürichScientific research associate (postdoc) 2012–2017 University of FloridaPhD student-assistant 2008–2012 EPFL Education Experimental particle physics | 2008 – 2012 EPFL Directed by Tatsuya Nakada Applied physics and mathematics | 2006 – 2008 Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology Directed by Andrey Golutvin Applied physics and mathematics | 2002 – 2006 Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology Directed by Andrey Golutvin ResearchCurrent Research Fields Full list of publications:http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/L.Shchutska.1 Teaching & PhD PhD Students Elena De Santis, Yiyang Ding, Pierre Mayencourt, Spencer Collaviti, Raphaël van Laak, Zhibin Yang, Vasilisa Guliaeva, Anni Kauniskangas, Valerii Kholoimov Past EPFL PhD Students Sara Celani, Serhii Cholak, Joanna Malgorzata Wanczyk, Mascellani Anna, Sonia Amina Bouchiba, Paul De Bryas Courses Particle physics II PHYS-416 This course aims to make students familiar and comfortable with the main concepts of particle physics, providing a clear connection between the theory and relevant experimental results, including the most recent ones from modern particle physics experiments. Awards Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics (as a member of the CMS and LHCb collaborations at CERN) Breakthrough Prize Foundation 2025 Swiss Science Prize Latsis SNSF on behalf of the International Latsis Foundation 2023 Young Experimental Physicist Prize High Energy and Particle Physics Division of the EPS 2019 LPC Distinguished Researcher LHC Physics center, Fermi National Laboratory, Batavia IL, USA 2016 CHIPP Prize for the best PhD student in experimental or theoretical particle physics Swiss Institute of Particle Physics (CHIPP) 2015