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Blekman is responsible for outreach and communication of 4000+ international scientists at CERN that publish 130+ scientific papers per year. She also holds the role as the convener of the "Beyond-Two-Generations" (B2G) physics group, which has over 250 members worldwide and has published over 60 journals. The group works to analyze new particles using
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from 2010 to 2014 before becoming an associate professor until 2018. She then became a full-time professor of Vrije from 2019 to 2021, where she researched physics beyond the standard model in the top sector. During her academic career, Blekman was a member of many notable societies, including the
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Science Fair team that presented their experiments during the CERN 40th anniversary event in 1994, jumpstarting her future career at the company. While originally studying biology, Blekman ran into her physics teacher in the streets which convinced her to switch to studying physics. Following this
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under the username @freyablekman, where she shares advancements in her work on particle physics. She was also featured at CERN in a YouTube series about the hadron collider restart in 2015. This promotion of particle physics on social media won her the
Jaarprijs Science Communication award of the
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from 2007 to 2010. As the only woman among 100 people at
Imperial College London, Blekman focused on CMS software and triggers, particle flow, and tau identification. At Cornell she researched pixel detector commissioning and measuring of the top quark pair production cross section using the
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Blekman, F. (2007). Measurement of inclusive differential cross sections for
Upsilon(1S) production in ppbar collisions at \sqrt s=1.96 TeV.
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Chatrchyan, S., et al. (2012). Observation of a new boson at a mass of 125 GeV with the CMS experiment at the LHC.
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Blekman, F. (2013). Measurement of the top pair invariant mass distribution and search for New
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Blekman, F. (2012). Search for same-sign top production at the LHC.
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Blekman, F. (2007). Studies for Semileptonic B Decays from B0.
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1999 – Chairperson of ATLAS-Canada Standing Review Committee,
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