About

Jesse Liu


CV

I am an Assistant Professor of Physics at New York University. With the NYU Experimental Particle Physics group, I collaborate with scientists internationally on the ATLAS Experiment at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland.

My research currently focuses on ATLAS measurements of tau-lepton dipole moments to seek new physics, and the Inner Tracker (ITk) strip detector upgrade, around which I am building my group. I also have growing interests in collider probes of cosmic-ray physics. In the past, I explored Higgs physics, dark matter at colliders, and axion experiments.

Originally from London, UK, I completed my BA and PhD in Physics at the University of Oxford, and MSc at the Perimeter Institute and University of Waterloo. I was then appointed as a Grainger Fellow at the University of Chicago, and Junior Research Fellow at Trinity College, University of Cambridge before joining NYU in 2025.

I am the first in my family to study at university and am committed to supportive mentoring, especially those with similarly low participation in physics research. Recently, I co-led the first-gen panel at NYU CU*iP to help navigate academic challenges and foster belonging. I took science communication classes to expand my outreach. I also grow vegetables in the NYU Urban Farm Lab. I have grapheme–colour synaesthesia.

Bio

New York University, USA. Assistant Professor of Physics. 2025 – present

University of Cambridge, UK. Trinity College Junior Research Fellow. 2021 – 2024
University of Chicago, USA. Grainger Postdoctoral Fellow. 2019 – 2021

University of Oxford, UK. DPhil Particle Physics. 2015 – 2019
CERN, Switzerland. Long Term Attachment. 2016 – 2018

Perimeter Institute, Canada. Perimeter Scholars International. 2014 – 2015
University of Waterloo, Canada. MSc Physics. 2014 – 2015

University of Oxford, UK. BA Physics. 2011 – 2014

Synaesthesia

Grapheme-colour synaesthesiaThis shows roughly the colour I perceive for each letter or number due to grapheme-colour synaesthesia.