LHCb guides
Ana Bárbara Rodrigues Cavalcante
Ana is a particle physicist at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne working on the assembly and commissioning of the LHCb SciFi Tracker. As a PhD student at Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Físicas, she studied charmless B decays, and was involved in the QA tests on the scintillating fibres for the LHCb SciFi Tracker. She enjoys reading and playing ukulele and guitar.
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.
Aravindhan Venkateswaran
Arvind is a PhD student at Syracuse University, United States, and is currently based at CERN. His work has revolved around searching for rare phenomena, such as weak pentaquarks, isospin breaking amplitudes, and lepton flavour violation. He also works on different aspects of the LHCbUT tracker upgrade, such as the silicon sensors and the CO2 cooling system. When he isn't doing physics, he enjoys reading, chess and playing the guitar.
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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