CERN Accelerating science

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, construction and operation of detectors for particle physics experiments. He is member of the LHCb collaboration and was from 1998-2018 one of the physicists in charge of the Muon System of the experiment. He is involved in the Heavy-Ion Physics program of LHCb and Member of the Steering Committee for strategic R&D on experimental technologies and coordinator on gaseous detectors in AIDAnova.