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 Bern, Switzerland.
She developed her professional career at CERN where she worked for many years through all phases of the trigger and data acquisition project of the ATLAS experiment.
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 studies conducted at CERN, Eva analysed first proton-proton collision data recorded with the ALICE experiment and worked towards establishing Geant4 as transport Monte Carlo for ALICE.
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 investigated silicon detectors for High Energy Physics experiments. As Staff member at CERN, she is working on the Silicon Pixel detector upgrade for the ATLAS experiment and coordinates several areas to build the detector for operation at the HL-LHC. She is also section leader of EP-ADE-TK and involved in the ECFA Detector R&D Roadmap as scientific secretary.
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 LEP and the ATLAS collaboration at LHC, where his work focussed on precision Standard Model physics, particularly involving top quarks. He has held various coordination roles on ATLAS including top physics WG convener and physics coordinator, and co-led the ATLAS luminosity measurement group from 2018-2021.
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.
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 detectors and searching for new physics phenomena.
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 active element in the CPLEAR sampling electromagnetic calorimeter. After completion of the calorimeter, Andreas convened the neutral final states analysis group, responsible for measuring CP asymmetries in the decay of neutral kaons into neutral pions.
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 at the DD division, and later moved to the Aleph experiment in the area of DAQ and slow controls. In 1994 he took the overall responsibility of the Aleph TPC detector until the end of LEP. From 1998 to 2002 was leading the development of the core software and framework for the LHCb experiment (Gaudi) and later the LCG Core Libraries and Services project (SEAL).
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 its scintillating fibre tracker with image intensifier and CCD readout. As a staff member she contributed to the development of scintillating fibre calorimetry before joining the NOMAD neutrino experiment, of which she became the technical coordinator. Following a short involvement in CMS, she was appointed deputy department leader of the CERN PH (physics) department in 2004.