I'm an assistant professor of physics at New York University. I work on the ATLAS experiment, which is part of the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. We hope that we will discover the Higgs boson, perhaps supersymmetry, and maybe even extra dimensions of spacetime. Recently, I won an award from the President for my work. As a particle physicist I try to understand the basic building blocks of nature. In particular, I'm looking for the last particle of the Standard Model of particle physics: the Higgs Boson?. The best site I know of for an introduction to Particle Physics is the Particle Adventure (unfortunately the site doesn't say much at all about Gravity and Einstein's Theory of General Relativity).
Here's a map of CERN. You can zoom out and move around to see the rest of Switzerland
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Shortly after I graduated as an undergraduate from Rice, I went to CERN and worked on the ALEPH collaboration to look for the Higgs Boson?. People had been looking for that particle for about 20 years, and we thought that were were in the midst of a discovery. There was a lot of excitement but unfortunately the evidence didn't meat the stringent "5 sigma" requirement to claim a discovery. So I went to Madison, Wisconsin and took classes for my Ph.D. The LHC is a big particle accelerator and there we will look for the Higgs again. In fact, if we don't find it, then we will have to go back to the drawing board and people will be quite confused. So the experiment I work on is called ATLAS. There are some movies about it below. After graduating, I worked for Brookhaven National Lab in Long Island as a Goldhaber fellow. A couple of years later I got a job as a professor at New York University.
There are some nice videos here, but I can't embed them in this page. Here's a virtual reality "photo" of the ATLAS experiment while it was still being constructed.