LHCb guides
Preema Pais
Preema is a particle physicist at CERN, currently working on the assembly and commissioning of the Scintillating Fibre Tracker, and the analysis of rare radiative decays of beauty mesons. She obtained her PhD at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, searching for long lived particles with the ATLAS detector. In her spare time, you can find her exploring the Swiss Alps or climbing.
Violaine Bellée
Violaine is a particle physicist at University of Zürich in Switzerland. She works mainly on the Upstream Tracker, a new LHCb sub-detector to be installed in the cavern this year. At the same time, she is also involved in the development of the next generation of tracking detectors, namely the LHCb 'Mighty Tracker' to be installed starting in 2025. She also loves discussing physics and painting.
María Vieites Díaz
María works as a post-doc at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne. She is a particle physicist working on data analysis, focusing on amplitude analysis in Radiative B decays, and on alignment-related tasks for the SciFi, the fibre tracker that is currently being installed in LHCb. She has recently got involved in occupancy studies for the Mighty Tracker, which is to be next generation tracker that could replace the SciFi in the future. She loves sailing and hiking and is a board-game enthusiast.
Lukas Witola
Lukas is a PhD student at Heidelberg University in Germany and works for the SciFi Tracker. He has been with the project since his undergraduate studies, where he was involved in the development and production of the SciFi. Currently he is part of the team that commissions the detector for the next run of LHCb. When he is not at Point 8 you probably find him cycling in the Jura or the Alps.
Ina Carli
Ina works as a postdoctoral fellow on the ALPHA experiment at CERN's Antiproton Decelerator, taking care of the detectors for annihilation of anti-hydrogen. Until recently she was a member of the LHCb and she worked on Upstream Tracker, a new tracking detector that will be installed in 2021. She obtained her PhD at Charles University (Prague, CZ) on the tracking detectors and data analysis at the ATLAS experiment.
She enjoys outreach activities, in normal times you could meet her guiding high-school students around CERN.
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