Alexander WINKLER
Alex Winkler graduated from the University of Jena, Germany in Physics and Photonics. Following the interest of exploring radiation, he went to the University of Helsinki (UH) for his PhD studies, where he focused on direct conversion radiation detectors (mainly Si and CdTe/ CZT). Within the CMS tracker Upgrade group of the UH and Helsinki Institute of Physics (HIP) he worked on the complete chain of detector production, starting from the design, over assembly, to quality assurance and ending with the installation at the CMS experiment at CERN. Since 2017, Alex Winkler is working for Detection Technology Oyj as a research scientist, where he continuously explores new technologies and processes for radiation detectors in medical, security and industrial imaging applications.
Maria Elena STRAMAGLIA
Maria Elena Stramaglia is curious and thoughtful, loves problem solving, singing and drawing. She established herself as a Physicist at University of Bari in 2011. She afterwards passionately contributed to research studies at CERN with LHCb during her Ph.D. at the University of Bern and Post-Doctoral experience at EPFL. In 2019 she settled in Bern with her family and joined the venture of Hitachi Energy in the e-mobility sector. As an equipment integration engineer, she is currently managing the digitalisation journey and transition to fully automated manufacturing of a new production line.
Albert PUIG NAVARRO
Albert worked in the LHCb experiment from 2007 until 2019, focusing mostly on rare radiative decays of B mesons. He got his Physics PhD in the University of Barcelona, and held postdoctoral positions at EPFL and UZH before joining Proton. There, he's built the Data team from 2 to 16 people, covering everything from data engineering and data operations to data science. The job of the team is to guide data-driven decision making all around the company, from business and engineering to customer support, while keeping the highest standards in user privacy.
Giorgia RAUCO
Giorgia has always been very curious and passionate about science. To satisfy her willingness to understand the laws of nature, she enrolled
in the faculty of Physics at the University of Pisa, where she earned her Bachelor Degree in 2012 and where she also got her Master Degree in Particle Physics, in 2015. During her thesis she worked on the search for the Higgs Boson decaying to a pair of bottom-quarks with the CMS experiment. She then kept exploring the hadronic final states, this time in exotic searches, while pursuing her Ph.D. at the University of Zurich, where she also focused on the pixel detector. In 2019, she left Academia and joined Pictet Banque & Cie SA, a Swiss private investment bank based in Geneva, where she worked as a Data Analyst. Since the beginning of 2022, she is applying her knowledge of the data domain to the travel industry, while working as a Data Scientist at Expedia Group, in Geneva.
Cecile DETERRE-JUSCHITZ
Cécile worked as a particle physicist in the D0 and ATLAS Collaborations between 2009 and 2018 studying the top quark properties. She holds a PhD from University Paris 6.
Cécile is now Head of IT and Data Science at Blue Planet Ecosystems. The mission of the Austrian start-up is to turn sunlight into seafood by replicating natural ecosystems. Cécile is responsible for building the digital model of the ecosystems, as well as overseeing the IoT infrastructure and automation aspects.
Caterina DEPLANO
Caterina Deplano is an Italian physicist living in Geneva since 2007. She received her masters and her PhD in physics working on the LHCb muon detector (GEM and ASIC development). Always looking for new challenges, she was a post-doc in LHCb till 2011 with a leading role in the detector commissioning and first data taking, a CERN fellow in BI for the development of a new SPS beam instrumentation monitoring, and finally a technical scientist in ALICE for the Inner Tracking System data taking and upgrade. Mother of two kids, fascinated by the child development and learning process, she left CERN in 2018 to change her career and become a physics and mathematics school teacher for pupils between 13 and 15 years old. She studied pedagogy and didactic at Geneva university and she is currently working in the Geneva secondary-1 school system.
Massimo MARINO
Massimo Marino, physicist, computer scientist, Information security professional and author of SF novels. He worked on both sides of the ocean pond, CERN and the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, then swallowed up by the private sector with Apple Inc., and met Steve Jobs a few (impactful) times. After that, he returned to more “local” ventures in the Leadership Team of the World Economic Forum, then AAA/Novartis, and currently he is the Managing Director of newcleo SA, based in Lyon, where he’s involved on conceiving the future with GEN IV fast neutron reactors.
He finds the most demanding job of all, hands down, has been writing his novels.
