Jonathan Mark Butterworth is a professor of physics at University College London (UCL)[2][8] working on the ATLAS experiment at CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC).

[11] Butterworth was raised in Manchester and educated at Wright Robinson High School in Gorton and Shena Simon Sixth Form College.

[12] His PhD research used the ZEUS particle detector to investigate R-parity violating supersymmetry at the Hadron-Electron Ring Accelerator (HERA) at the Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY) in Hamburg,[13] and was supervised by Doug Gingrich[5] and Herbert K.

[14] His research collaborators[3][5][15] include Brian Cox[10][4] and Jeff Forshaw[16] and he has supervised or co-supervised several successful PhD students to completion on the ATLAS experiment,[17][18][19] ZEUS[20][21][22][23] and HERA.

[24][25][26][27][28] Butterworth frequently discusses physics in public, including talks at the Royal Institution and the Wellcome Trust and appearances on Newsnight, Horizon, Channel 4 News, Al Jazeera, and BBC Radio 4's Today Programme and The Infinite Monkey Cage.

[2] His citation at the IOP reads: He made the first measurements of the production of the hadronic 'jets' produced when quarks and gluons scatter in photon-proton collisions, and was Physics Chair of the ZEUS experiment in 2003/2004.