People

Steering Committee

Barney, David
EP-CMX == Group

After completing his Bachelors degree in Physics, and PhD in High Energy Physics, at Imperial College London, Dave moved to CERN as a “Fellow” in 1994, to work on CMS. He spent nearly two decades...

Hawkings, Richard
EP-DI == Group

Richard Hawkings did his PhD in physics in Oxford, UK, and worked as a CERN fellow and DESY fellow before becoming a staff research physicist at CERN. He has been a member of the OPAL collaboration at...

Janot, Patrick
EP-CMG == Group

 

 

 
Joram, Christian
EP-DI == Group

After obtaining his PhD from Karlsruhe University (Germany) in 1993, he joined CERN as a fellow in the DELPHI experiment and became staff in 1996. As member of the detector support group (today known...

Krammer, Manfred
EP Department Head == Group

 

 
Kuehn, Susanne
EP-ADE == Group

Susanne studied Physics at the University of Freiburg in Germany. In her PhD, she analyzed collision data of the ATLAS experiment. In her postdoctoral studies and habilitation in Physics, Susanne...

Lehmann Miotto, Giovanna
EP-DI == Group

Giovanna is one of the two deputy heads of the Experimental Physics department at CERN. 

She studied Physics at the university of Milano, Italy, and then carried out her PhD with the university of...

Linssen, Lucie
EP-LCD == Group

Before joining CERN, Lucie studied physics at the beautiful old Dutch towns of Leiden and Amsterdam, obtaining her PhD on a LEAR experiment in 1986. She then joined UA2 as a CERN fellow, developing...

Mato Vila, Pere
EP-SFT == Group

Pere Mato studied physics at University of Barcelona, Spain, where he obtained the Ph.D. in 1990. Since 1986 has been working at CERN in a number of projects. Started with the 3081/E emulator project...

Rembser, Christoph
EP-ADO == Group

Christoph Rembser had his first high-energy experience as a CERN summer student in 1989. Since then he has worked on the ZEUS, OPAL and ATLAS experiments, gaining expertise in various types of...

Riegler, Werner
EP-AIO == Group

 

 
Schmidt, Burkhard
EP-DT == Group

Burkhard Schmidt has PhD. in Physics from the University of Dortmund and is CERN staff since 1998. Since 2017 he is Leader of the Detector Technologies Group, which participates to the development...

Schopper, Andreas
EP-LBO == Group

Following his diploma at the University of Basel, Andreas joined the CPLEAR experiment in its very early stage, developing a novel technique of small high-gain limited-streamer tubes, to be used as...

Sicking, Eva
EP-DT == Group

Eva studied physics at the University of Münster in Germany. During her master studies, she helped assemble and test the Transition Radiation Detector, TRD, of the ALICE experiment. In her doctoral...

WP Leaders

Aleksa, Martin
EP-ADO == Group

After his Masters degree, Martin moved from native Vienna, Austria, to CERN for his PhD work in the ATLAS muon group which he finished in 1999. Following a “fellowship” on numerical field computation...

Brunbauer, Florian
EP-DT == Group

Working on the development of novel gaseous detectors, Florian is a Fellow in the Gaseous Detector Development (GDD) group. 

He studied physics at TU Vienna and worked on nano fabrication...

Campbell, Michael
EP - ESE == Group

Michael Campbell is the leader of the Medipix design team in the Experimental Physics Department at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland where he has worked for over 30 years. He was leader of the...

Campbell, Michael
EP-ESE == Group

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Coco, Victor
EP - LBD == Group

Victor Coco has been a staff member of CERN since 2017 and is involved in the installation and commissioning of the upgrade of the LHCb Vertex Locator as well as the design of its second upgrade. He...

Collins, Paula
EP - LBD == Group

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Cure, Benoit
EP-CMX == Group

Benoit started his career as mechanical engineer, specialized in materials engineering, working in materials R&D before joining CERN to work with the CEA-Saclay team on the CMS magnet design. Within...

Dannheim, Dominik
EP-LCD == Group
Dominik has been working for his Diploma and Ph.D. on silicon detectors and search for physics beyond the Standard Model with the ZEUS experiment at HERA, receiving his Ph.D. from the University of...
Dannheim, Dominik
EP-LCD == Group
Dominik has been working for his Diploma and Ph.D. on silicon detectors and search for physics beyond the Standard Model with the ZEUS experiment at HERA, receiving his Ph.D. from the University of...
Faccio, Federico
EP-ESE == Group

Federico Faccio is the leader of the CERN Microelectronics section. He received the M.S. degree in physics from the University of Turin, Italy  (1991) and the Ph.D. degree from INPG in Grenoble...

Faccio, Federico
EP-ESE == Group

Federico Faccio is the leader of the CERN Microelectronics section. He received the M.S. degree in physics from the University of Turin, Italy  (1991) and the Ph.D. degree from INPG in Grenoble...

Gargiulo, Corrado
EP-DT == Group

My background is in aeronautical and aerospace engineering, with a specialisation in the structural engineering and materials within these fields. After few years spent on the development of composite...

Mentink, Matthias
EP-ADO == Group

Following studies at the University of Twente, Matthias did his PhD research at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, in collaboration with University of Twente and UC Berkeley, California...

Moll, Michael
EP - DT == Group

Michael Moll is working on the characterization and development of radiation hard silicon detectors. He obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Hamburg in 1999 and then went to CERN working on the...

Moreira, Paulo
EP-ESE == Group

Dr. Paulo Moreira was born in Porto, Portugal. He holds a degree in applied physics from the University of Porto - Portugal, and a Ph.D. degree in electronics engineering from the University of North...

Oliveri, Eraldo
EP-DT == Group

Eraldo Oliveri started working at CERN in 2006 for the TOTEM experiment. His areas of expertise include detector characterization, electronics integration, installation, commissioning and operation of...

Riedler, Petra
EP - DT == Group

Petra Riedler is a senior staff in EP-DT, working on the development, study and construction of silicon pixel detectors. Petra first came to CERN to work as a doctoral student on the radiation damage...

Sailer, André
EP-SFT == Group

André is a staff member and applied physicist in the EP-SFT group. Since October 2021, he has been the deputy coordinator of the EP R&D software work package. In EP R&D, he is also the leader of the...

Stewart, Graeme
EP-SFT == Group

Graeme is a senior staff scientist at CERN in the EP-SFT group has been a member of the ATLAS experiment for many years, holding leading roles in the software project, including Software Coordinator...

Troska, Jan
EP-ESE == Group

Jan Troska obtained his BSc in 1995 and his PhD in 1999 from Imperial College, London. He has been working on the implementation of optical data transmission systems in particle physics experiments...

Vasey, Francois
EP-ESE == Group

Francois Vasey holds an electronics engineering degree from ETH-Zurich and a PhD degree in optoelectronics from EPF-Lausanne.  He joined CERN in 1994 to develop radiation resistant optical links for...

Participants

Aglieri, Gianluca
EP- ESE == Group

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EP- ESE == Group

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Alessandro, Caratelli
EP-ESE == Group

Alessandro Caratelli is a digital design engineer in the EP-ESE group. 

Together with Kostas Kloukinas, Alessandro is currently responsible of the CERN ASIC Support Service aiming to provide...

Auffray-Hillemanns, Etiennette
EP-CMX == Group

Etiennette Auffray is senior physicist in EP-CMX group. She first came at CERN as a technical student in 1990, then continued as a PhD student and postdoc working on the R&D on inorganic scintillators...

Ballabriga, Raffael
EP - ESE == Group

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Blomer, Jakob
EP-SFT == Group

Jakob is a staff computer scientist in the EP-SFT group. He is deputy coordinator of the EP R&D software work package. Jakob is the original author and project leader of the CernVM File System, a...

Borghello, Giulio
EP-ESE == Group

Giulio Borghello is a member of the CERN Microelectronics Section since 2016. His work involves evaluating the radiation response of CMOS technologies used in ASICs developed in the Microelectronics...

Erica Brondolin
Brondolin, Erica
EP-CMG-DS == Group

Erica is an experimental particle physicist in the EP-CMG group. Her research interests revolve mainly around software event reconstruction, Higgs physics and silicon sensors characterisation. During...

Dannheim, Dominik (see WP 1.3 and 1.4)
EP - DT == Group

Dominik has been working for his Diploma and Ph.D. on silicon detectors and search for physics beyond the Standard Model with the ZEUS experiment at HERA, receiving his Ph.D. from the University of...

François, Brieuc
EP-SFT == Group

Brieuc joined the CMS experiment in 2013 for his PhD (UCLouvain - CP3, Belgium) to work on double Higgs production analyses, b-tagging algorithms and Tracker commissioning. During his first postdoc...

Kluge, Alex
EP- ESE == Group

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Musa, Luciano
EP - AIO == Group

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Pernegger, Heinz
EP - ADE == Group

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Snoeys, Walter
EP - ESE == Group

Walter Snoeys received the MS and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in 1987, and from Stanford University in 1992, respectively. Before joining the...

Wilkens, Henric
EP-ADE == Group

Henric Wilkens got his Ph.D. on the study of muons in Extensive Air shower using the L3+Cosmic extension of the L3 experiment. He joined CERN as a research fellow, and following his interest in...

Fellows

Molina Gonzalez, Maria Soledad
EP-DT == Group

Aerospace Engineer with specialization in Air Navigation Systems, from University of Seville, with specific knowledge on modelling, carbon composite material & processes, electronics and radiation...

Antoszczuk, Pablo
EP - ESE == Group

I am an Electronics Engineer, and during my PhD I specialised in power electronics. Particularly, my experience lies in the design of dc-dc converters, including the power stage, measurements and...

Aretio Zarate, Fernando
TE-CRG-CL == Group

After finishing my master's degree in Aeronautical Engineering (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid), I focused my career on the structural analysis, working in several fields such as aeronautics...

Baszczyk, Mateusz
EP-ESE == Group

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Béguin, Marina
EP - ADE (March - June 2020) == Group

Doctor in Applied Physics since December 2019, I also have an Engineering background specialized in Physics and Simulation. During my research, led at CERN in partnership with CEA Saclay, I simulated...

Joshua Falco Beirer
Beirer, Joshua Falco
EP-ADP == Group

Joshua is an experimental particle physicist with a keen interest in software development and data analysis. He obtained his physics degree from the University of Göttingen and has been a member of...

Biereigel, Stefan
EP-ESE == Group

Stefan Biereigel studied Electrical Engineering at EAH Jena, Germany. He joined CERN in 2018 as a doctoral student, researching All-Digital PLL and CDR circuits for radiation-tolerant clock generators...

Brieuc, Francois
EP-ADO == Group

Brieuc joined the CMS experiment in 2013 to work on b-tagging and be part of the Tracker Detector On Call team. He got his PhD in Experimental High Energy Physics from UCLouvain (Belgium) on SM and...

Bulling, Anthony
EP-ESE == Group
  1. In 2012 I finished my electronic engineering degree, followed by a Microelectronic Engineering Honours Degree in 2013, and then a research master’s degree in 2014 at the University of Pretoria in...
Buschmann, Eric
EP - DT == Group

During my Master and PhD in the ATLAS collaboration I worked on readout software and electronics for pixel detectors. My PhD focused on building a readout chain for a demonstrator setup for the ATLAS...

Buschmann, Eric
EP - DT == Group

During my Master and PhD in the ATLAS collaboration I worked on readout software and electronics for pixel detectors. My PhD focused on building a readout chain for a demonstrator setup for the ATLAS...

Juan Miguel Carceller
Carceller, Juan Miguel
EP-SFT == Group

Juan Miguel is an experimental physicist focused on software. He received his PhD from the University of Granada after working in The Pierre Auger Observatory. He did a postdoc at University College...

Cecconi, Leonardo
EP - ESE == Group

Leonardo is an electronic engineer with a background on digital IC design and working experiences in low level software design and physical systems simulations. Currently he is working on low power...

Curras, Esteban
EP-DT == Group

I am an Electronic Engineer with experience in Astrophysic and High Energy Physic instrumentation. I did my PhD at CERN within the CMS experiment studying the radiation hardness and precision timing...

Dachs, Florian
EP - DT == Group

Florian is an experimental physicist who has studied at TU Vienna and focused on the characterization of monolithic CMOS pixel detectors during his PhD at CERN. His main focus was on radiation...

Dachs, Florian
EP - DT == Group

Florian is an experimental physicist who has studied at TU Vienna and focused on the characterization of monolithic CMOS pixel detectors during his PhD at CERN. His main focus was on radiation...

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Gessinger-Befurt, Paul
EP-ADP == Group

Paul studied physics in Mainz, and quickly identified particle physics as his main field of interest. During his studies, he worked on analysis efforts searching for new physics with the ATLAS...

Gkougkousis, Vagelis
EP-LBC == Group

Since the beginning of my scientific carrier I put a key accent on deep level understanding, combining both hardware and analysis skills. I have worked at the ATLS collaboration for the Phase II pixel...

Hellenschmidt, Desiree
EP - DT == Group

During her PhD at CERN, Desiree contributed to an R&D work-package aiming at a thorough understanding of micro-channel cooling as a highly efficient thermal management technique for Silicon Pixel...

Hofmann, Tobias
EP-ESE == Group

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Joao, De Melo
EP - ESE == Group

João L. A. de Melo was born in Pico island, Azores-Portugal. He received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in electrical and computer engineering from the Faculty of Sciences and Technology of NOVA...

Keizer, Floris
EP-LBD == Group

My research focuses on detector R&D and simulation for future upgrades, in particular the use of sub-nanosecond time information to improve the performance of RICH (Ring-Imaging Cherenkov) detectors i...

Javier Lopez Gomez
Lopez Gomez, Javier
EP-SFT == Group

Javier is a computer scientist from University Carlos III of Madrid. During the last few years, his focus has been on low-level software (e.g. operating systems, embedded software and electronics, and...

Munker, Magdalena
EP - DT == Group

Magdalena Munker has done her PhD on CMOS sensors as a CERN Doctoral Student together with the University of Bonn. She is now a CERN Applied Physics fellow, working on testing and simulation of...

Pejasinovic, Risto
EP-ESE == Group

I am an Electronics Engineer from Serbia specializing in embedded systems. I have graduated at the Faculty of Technical Sciences, University of Novi Sad.
Previously, I was involved in FPGA design and...

Pejasinovic, Risto
EP-ESE == Group

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Juska at the lab
Pekkanen, Juska
EP-ADO == Group

After working at CMS for 10+ years with jet calibration and Particle Flow, I take on new challenges as a Research Fellow in the Noble Liquid Calorimetry for Future Accelerator Experiments project. We...

Quast, Thorben
EP-DT == Group

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Salamani, Dalila
EP-SFT == Group

Dalila works on fast calorimeter simulation using Machine Learning techniques. She has a data science background and during her PhD she designed generative models for fast calorimeter simulation in...

Salomoni, Matteo
EP-LBD == Group

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Swathi Sasikumar
Sasikumar, Swathi
EP-SFT == Group

During her Ph.D. at DESY, Hamburg, Swathi worked on developing methods to eliminate certain parasitic physics processes at the International Linear Collider and applied them for SUSY searches at the...

Scaramuzzino, Paolo Francesco
EP-DT == Group

I am an aerospace engineer graduated at Politecnico di Milano. I pursued a PhD in the same field at Delft University of Technology. I joined the EP-DT-EO group as a post-doctoral research fellow in...

Singh, Shuvay
EP - ADO == Group

MSc Engineer from South Africa with previous experience in building and racing the UKZN Solar Car in the 2015 Bridgestone World Solar Challenge. Work experience spanning 6 years in the fields of...

Sriskaran, Viros
EP - ESE == Group

Viros Sriskaran joined the Microelectronics Section of the Electronic Systems for the Experiments Group (ESE) of the Experimental Physics (EP) Department in 2016. He has been responsible for the...

Svihra, Peter
EP-DT == Group

Peter is an experimental physicist focused on applications and development of silicon pixel detectors. He did his Ph.D. with the University of Manchester where he was working on building and...

Teofili, Lorenzo
EP-DT == Group

Lorenzo graduated in Astronautical and Space engineering in 2016. He continued his studies with a Ph.D. in accelerator physics in a collaboration among CERN (SY-STI-TCD section), the University of...

Utrobicic, Antonija
EP - DT == Group

I am an experimental physicist with the main research interest in the field of gaseous particle detector systems. During my Ph.D.  I was mostly engaged in the optimization of their performance and the...

Vanat, Tomas
EP - DT == Group

Tomas is a designer and developer of digital electronics and FPGA, System-on-Chip and micro-controller-based systems for embedded control and data acquisition. He develops and maintains the Xilinx...

Vaskuri, Anna
EP-ADO == Group

Anna Vaskuri received her doctorate in the field of Measurement Science and Technology from Aalto University, Finland in 2018. After her graduation, Vaskuri worked for 2.5 years at the National...

Vicente, Mateus
EP-DT == Group

Mateus is an experimental physicist with focus on the characterisation of new silicon pixel detectors. He obtained his Ph.D. degree from Geneva University with his thesis work on new monolithic and...

Wanotayaroj, Chaowaroj
EP-UAT == Group

As a PhD student and postdoc working in the ATLAS collaboration, I have worked on many physics analyses and detector performance R&D works. SUSY searches have been my focus during my PhD. As a DESY...

Students

Weick, Julian
EP-DT  == Group

Julian Weick is currently working on his Ph.D. on adaptive signal treatment and self-optimization for Malta chip arrays as part of the detector development group at CERN and the signal processing...

Athanasoulas , Yiorgos
EP-ESE == Group

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Balutto, Mattia
EP-ESE == Group

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Braach, Justus
EP-DT == Group

Justus is a doctoral student in the EP-DT group and is affiliated with Hamburg University.
He obtained his M.Sc. degree from Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). His work at the Institute of...

Braach, Justus
EP-DT == Group

Justus is a doctoral student in the EP-DT group and is affiliated with Hamburg University.
He obtained his M.Sc. degree from Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). His work at the Institute of...

Cala', Roberto
EP-CMX == Group

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de Geus, Florine
EP-SFT == Group

Florine is a doctoral student at CERN in the EP-SFT group and at the University of Twente in the Netherlands. Her work focuses on the design and development of efficient data reduction and...

Deng, Wenjing
EP - UAI == Group

Doctoral student specializing in analog integrated circuit design, from Central China Normal University. During master, worked on the design of high-precision Time-to-Digital Converter (TDC) and Time...

Dias, Mathéo
EP-DT == Group
  • Mechanical engineering school in Albi, France
  • 3 years professional experience as a CAD software development engineer in Toulouse
  • Enrolled as a PhD student at Paul Sabatier University and in...
DOBRIJEVIC , Dominik
EP-ADE == Group

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Dorda Martin , Ana
EP-ESE == Group

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Dort, Katharina
EP - DT == Group

I am a doctoral student at CERN specialising in monolithic CMOS silicon sensors. I graduated with a master degree in physics from the Justus Liebig University in Giessen. During my studies, I gained...

Gluchowska, Weronika
EP-ADO == Group

Student at Wroclaw University of Science and Technology in the field of Mechanical Engineering with the specialisation in Refrigeration and Cryogenics. She is involved in designing a new cryogenic...

Gose , Melwin
EP-LBD == Group

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Haimberger, Jakob
EP - LBD == Group

Jakob Haimberger studied physics at the technical university in Vienna. During his master he worked on automation software for low temperature thermal conductivity measurements. Since 2020 Jakob...

Halvorsen, Marius
EP - LBD == Group

Marius Mæhlum Halvorsen first joined CERN in 2019 as a technical student to work on timing properties of silicon detectors. His work was carried out with the LHCb VELO group and the SSD lab, which...

Hong, Geun Hee
EP - UAI == Group

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Janssens, Djunes
EP-DT == Group

Djunes Janssens studied physics at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) in Belgium. As a CERN summer student in 2019, he worked on the discrepancy between measured and simulated gas gains in GEM...

Jurco, Robert
EP - ADO == Group

Theoretical physicist from Slovakia with a bachelor's degree from Charles University in Prague. Previous experience includes measurement and simulation of quantum turbulence in superfluid helium. ...

Klekotko, Adam
ESE == Group

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Kroeger, Jens
EP - DT == Group

I studied physics at the University of Heidelberg, Germany, where I obtained my Master's in 2017. After that, I spent 6 months as a research assistant at TRIUMF in Vancouver, Canada. Since July 2018...

Lalovic, Milana
EP-UCM == Group

Milana Lalović was born on 31.08.1994. in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. In 2013 she enrolled to the University of Belgrade, School of Electrical Engineering. She graduated from Nanoelectronics...

Magatti, Demetrio
EP-DT == Group

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Martinazzoli , Loris
EP - LBD == Group

First technical and now doctoral student at CERN, member of the LHCb collaboration, he is currently doing research on the upgrade of the detector’s electromagnetic calorimeter exploring novel fast...

Maulerova , Vendula
EP-DT == Group

I am PhD associated with Hamburg University.

I did my bachelor and master studies at the Lund University developing neutron detectors. Previously I have been working for a detector group at the...

Mazzei, Francesco
EP-DT == Group

Francesco holds a Bachelor's degree in Aerospace Engineering and a Master's degree in Space and Astronautical Engineering from the University of Rome La Sapienza. During his thesis, he completed an...

Padulano, Vincenzo Eduardo
EP-SFT == Group

Doctoral student at CERN in the Software Development for Experiments group and enrolled in a Computer Science PhD program at Universitat Politecnica de Valencia. Member of the team in charge of...

Pape, Sebastian
EP-DT == Group

Sebastian Pape is a doctoral student at the EP-DT-SSD group.
He is affiliated with the TU Dortmund University, where he obtained his M.Sc. degree in 2020.

For his Master thesis he worked on Low Gain...

Aurora Perego
Perego, Aurora
EP-CMG-DS == Group

Aurora is currently a doctoral student at CERN, participating in the EP R&D Phase 2 program while pursuing a Ph.D. in Physics at the University of Milano Bicocca. She obtained her bachelor's and...

Piro, Francesco
EP - ESE == Group

I am a doctoral student specialising in analog circuits design. During my master internship, I worked at the University of Geneva as circuit designer for monolithic pixel sensors addressing ToF PET...

Leonhard Reichenbach
Reichenbach, Leonhard
EP-SFT == Group

Leonhard is a doctoral student in the Wolfgang-Gentner-Programme in cooperation with the university of Bonn. His work focuses on developing an improved electron reconstruction algorithm for Key4Hep...

Rigoletti, Gianluca
EP-DT == Group

Experimental physicist, working on the maintenance, operation and development of gas systems for particle detectors. Gianluca studied plasma physics at the University of Milano-Bicocca (IT). Gianluca...

Termo, Gennaro
EP-ESE == Group

I am a 24 years old student coming from Naples, Italy and I am master degree student in electronic engineering working here at CERN as a technical student. In particular, I’m working on the effects of...

van Rijnbach, Milou
EP-ADE == Group

Milou is an engineer who has studied at the Technical University of Twente (Netherlands) , where she specialized in device physics and characterization of semiconductor devices, such as photovoltaic...

Williams, Morag
EP - DT == Group

I am a CERN doctoral student specializing in characterizing novel, fine-pitch pixel detectors. During my PhD, I have tested CLICpix2 readout ASICs bump-bonded to planar sensors, in both laboratory and...

Previous Members

Barba Higueras , Maria Asuncion
TE-CRG == Group

I am an Energy Engineer specialized in Heat Transfer and Fluid Mechanics. During my PhD I have been working on cryogenic cooling systems for superconducting magnets including neon, nitrogen and argon...

Placido Fernandez
Fernandez Declara, Placido
EP-SFT == Group

Placido Fernandez Declara is a computing engineer focused on high-performance computing, frameworks and software engineering. During his PhD at the LHCb experiment he developed and improved tracking...

Forty, Roger
EP-DI == Group

Roger Forty studied physics at Oxford and Cambridge universities before gaining his PhD at Imperial College London working on the NA14 experiment at CERN, studying charm production with one of the...

Volkl, Valentin
EP-SFT == Group

I am an experimental physicist with a strong interest in computing and detector development. As a doctoral student, I was already working on the Future Circular Collider Design Study, writing my...