Tejinder Virdee

Who is Tejinder Virdee?

Tejinder Singh Virdee, FRS is an experimental physicist and Professor of Physics at Imperial College London. He is best known for originating the concept of CMS with a few other colleagues and has been referred to as one of the 'founding fathers' of the project. CMS is a world-wide collaboration which started in 1991 and now has over 3000 participants from 38 countries.

Virdee was elected Fellow of the Royal Society and of the Institute of Physics in 2012. In recognition of his work on CMS he has been awarded the Institute of Physics 2007 High Energy Physics Prize and the IOP 2009 Chadwick Medal and Prize. In 2012, he was awarded the Yuri Milner Special Fundamental Physics Prize for 'leadership in the scientific endeavour that led to the discovery of the new Higgs-like particle by the ATLAS and CMS collaborations at CERN's Large Hadron Collider along with 6 other physicists. In 2013 he was awarded the European Physical Society High Energy Physics Prize for his pioneering work and outstanding leadership in the making of the CMS experiment along with two others, one from CMS and one from ATLAS and the ATLAS and CMS Collaborations.