Dr Victoria Martin studied physics at the University of Edinburgh where she was lectured by Professor Peter Higgs, the winner of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics. She graduated in 1996 with BSc(Hons) in Mathematical Physics and in 2000 with a PhD in Experimental Particle Physics for which she worked with at Cern, the European laboratory for particle physics, in Geneva.

Victoria is now a Reader at the University of Edinburgh, teaching and researching in particle physics. Victoria and her team work as part of a huge international collaboration using the Atlas experiment at the Large Hadron Collider at Cern, where the Higgs particle was discovered in 2012. The current focus of Victoria's research is to better understand how the Higgs boson particle behaves.