Professor Geoffrey Taylor is Professor of Experimental Particle Physics in the School of Physics, Faculty of Science at the University of Melbourne. He holds an MSc from the University of Western Australia and a PhD from the University of Hawaii. Before his promotion to Professor of Physics in 1999, he was a Senior Lecturer in Physics at the University of Melbourne. Since 1999, he has occupied the Chair of Experimental Physics, and since 2002, he has served as Head of the School of Physics. Taylor directs the ARC Centre of Excellence for Particle Physics at the Terascale and leads Australia's contributions to the ATLAS experiment at CERN's Large Hadron Collider, a role he has held since 1989.

Taylor's career in experimental particle physics includes directing the design and construction in Melbourne of the inner tracking component of the ATLAS detector, particularly the Semiconductor Tracker. His leadership has driven advancements in data analysis techniques, including machine learning methods for identifying tau-leptons in Higgs boson decays, contributing to the Higgs Boson discovery and precise measurements of its properties. For these efforts, Taylor and his University of Melbourne team, including Professors Elisabetta Barberio and the late Stuart Tovey, along with colleagues Martin Sevior and Phillip Urquijo, received the 2025 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics. A Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science, Taylor supervises PhD and MSc students on projects involving LHC/ATLAS upgrades, dark matter detection through SABRE and XLZD experiments, flavour physics via Belle II and Hyper-Kamiokande, and searches for physics beyond the Standard Model. His research expertise lies in high energy physics data analysis.

Professional Email: gntaylor@unimelb.edu.au