'Keep learning about your brain!': CERN physicist Dr Claire Lee shares her ADHD journey

The South African particle physicist has been on a journey to working with the Large Hadron Collider — and a diagnosis of ADHD in 2022 has provided knowledge and understanding

L-R: Dr. Claire Lee - particle physician at CERN and ADHD advocate; the CMS Experiment at CERN.

She works as a particle physicist in one of the most high-tech research centres in the world and was diagnosed with ADHD this year. But South African-born Dr Claire Lee says her diagnosis has provided knowledge and understanding and has actually made her life much 'smoother'. 

Dr Lee is currently working on the operations aspect of  The Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) experiment. This is a general-purpose particle-physics detector at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) particle accelerator, located at the CERN agency's headquarters in Switzerland which is known for the discovery of the Higgs boson particle, a key discovery in particle physics.