Tara Georgina Shears[1] (born 1969) is a Professor of Physics at the University of Liverpool.

In 2004 she joined the LHCb experiment[3] at CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC) particle accelerator (the world's largest), for which she initiated and developed the electroweak and exotica physics working group.

Shears became the first female Professor of Physics at the University of Liverpool, where she researches the properties of bottom quarks using hadron colliders, testing the Standard Model theory in the electroweak sector, to seek answers for the reasons that there is so little antimatter in the universe.

She is also employed as a science communicator, being able to promote female interest in physics as a role model.

[4] Shears was awarded a CERN fellowship to conduct research on the Large Electron–Positron Collider (LEP).