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 Wales - U.K. He worked for INESC, Portugal, in the development of telecommunication systems and at the UCNW - U.K., in the development of fiber optics receivers for multi-gigabit/s optical communication systems. Since 1994, he has been with CERN, Geneva, Switzerland, where he has been involved in the development of integrated circuits for the high-energy physics experiments at CERN.

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 materials for aerospace applications, I joined INFN in 1998 where I was responsible for the mechanical projects office in Rome and worked with several different Physics Projects, CMS, BaBar,T2k and the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS_02), launched on board a Space Shuttle in 2011. I joined CERN EP DT soon after.

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 the T2 Triple GEM inelastic telescope. In 2012, he joined the EP-DT-DD Gas Detector Development (GDD) group founded by George Charpak, led at that time by Fabio Sauli and today by Leszek Ropelewski. He is working on gaseous detectors generic and project oriented R&D, trying to explore the limits of these technologies.

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. Subsequently, he developed conceptual designs of superconducting detector magnets for FCC as a fellow of CERN in 2014 in the Experimental Physics department. In 2017, he transferred to the TE-MPE where he assumed responsibility for protection studies within the HL-LHC upgrade, involving circuits, superconducting magnets, and superconducting busbars.

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, France (1997). At CERN since 1991, he has been mainly involved in the study of the radiation effects on semiconductor technologies and the design of radiation-hard ASICs. He recently led the CERN development of radiation and magnetic field tolerant DCDC converters.

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 the CEA and CERN teams, Benoit was responsible for studies of the coil and for R&D activities on the superconductor and the coil splices. He was also in charge of industrial procurements for the CMS magnet systems. He supervised and coordinated integration and commissioning activities of the coil and its sub-systems.

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 and magnet design in the LHC department he moved back to ATLAS and joined the Liquid Argon (LAr) Calorimeter Group as CERN staff in 2002. Besides his heavy involvement into calorimeter wheel construction, integration, installation and commissioning he also served as test beam co-coordinator working on test beam coordination as well as electron performance studies and e-gamma calibration.

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 since 1996. Jan joined CERN in 2000 and is presently Team Leader for optical link developments for the readout and control of particle physics detectors.

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 LHC experiments. He led the CMS Tracker Optical Link project until system commissioning in 2008, the Versatile Link project until 2013 and is currently leading the Versatile Link Plus project for the phase II upgrades of the HL-LHC experiments.