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Name: Prof. Mark Thomson About: Mark Thomson is a Professor of Experimental Partcle Physics at the Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, and holds the position of the Executive Chair at the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) of the United Kingdom. Prof. Thomson has worked in a number of high-energy particle physics experiments, including the Omni-Purpose Apparatus at LEP (OPAL) experiment at CERN. Currently his main scientific focus is in the area of neutrino physics, where he has recently (2015-2018) held the position of the co-spokesperson for the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE). |
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Name: Dr Maurizio Vretenar About: Dr Maurizio Vretenar is an accelerator physicist and senior staff researcher at the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN).Throughout his research career at CERN Dr Vretenar has held a number of highly impactful positions, including the Project Leader of the LINAC4 contruction project (2008-2016). In the recent years he has led or coordinated a number of international research projects aimed at the development of novel accelerator technologies and applications, such as the Innovation Fostering in Accelerator Science and Technology (I.FAST) and Next Ion Medical Machine Study (NIMMS). Dr Vretenar has also served as the advisor to the CERN International Relations department, playing an important role in fostering the scientific ties between CERN and the Baltic States. |
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Name: Prof. Leonid Rivkin About: Leonid Rivkin is a professor of accelerator physics at the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland. His research career has impacted large-scale accelerator projects both in the United States, at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) and in Europe at the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN). Prof. Rivkin joined the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) in 1989, where he has since served as the Deputy Director (2017-2020) and the Senior Executive Advisor to the PSI Director (2020-present). Furthermore, prof. Rivkin has held the position of the Chair of the Scientific Policy Council of CERN (2020-2022). |
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Name: Prof. Klaus Desch About: Klaus Desch is a professor of Experimental Particle Physics at the University of Bonn, Germany, where he is the group leader of the particle physics research cluster. With deep interest in searches of hypotetical particles called "axions", as well as studies of the properties of the Higgs boson, Prof. Desch is a member of both the CERN Axion Solar Telescope (CAST) and A Toroidal LHC ApparatuS (ATLAS) experiments at CERN. In addition, prof. Desch is actively involved in the the development of novel gas-filled particle detector devices called GridPix. With his scientific expertise, prof. Desch serves as the German delegate to the CERN's Scientific Policy Council. |
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Name: Prof. Timothy Cohen About: Tim Cohen is a theoretical physicist, currently working as a staff member at CERN and EPFL, on leave from the University of Oregon. Tim did his PhD at the University of Michigan, and did postdoctoral positions at SLAC and Princeton. He is an expert in Effective Field Theory, especially as applied in the context of beyond the Standard Model physics and cosmology. |
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Name: Prof. John Ellis About: John Ellis is currently the Clerk Maxwell Professor of Theoretical Physics at King's College London, having previously worked at CERN in Geneva from 1973 to 2011. His research interests focus on the phenomenological aspects of elementary particle physics and its connections with astrophysics, cosmology, general relativity and quantum gravity. He made pioneering studies of the experimental signatures of the Higgs boson and the gluon. Much of his work relates directly to experiment, interpreting results of searches for new physics and exploring the physics capabilities of future experiments. He is currently a member of the AION Collaboration that plans to use atom interferometry to search for ultralight cold dark matter and gravitational waves. |
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Name: Dr Ramon Winterhalder About: Ramon Winterhalder is a postdoctoral researcher at UCLouvain in Belgium. He works at the intersection of particle physics and machine learning. His research aims to fully establish data-driven techniques in high-energy physics and to enhance standard simulation methods with (generative) neural networks. Additionally, his interests also encompass simulation-based inference, which heavily depends on precise first-principle simulations provided by theory. |
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Name: Dr Jacqueline Keintzel About: Jacqueline Keintzel is a staff accelerator physicist at CERN's Beams Department. She earned her Ph.D. in Technical Physics from the Vienna University of Technology in 2022, focusing on beam optics design, measurement, and correction strategies for circular colliders at the energy and luminosity frontier. Specializing in beam optics, she has significant hands-on experience at major storage rings, including the LHC, SuperKEKB, DAΦNE, and KARA. Her research highlights include developing novel beam optics with reduced arc phase advance in the LHC, creating a new measurement method for amplitude detuning in lepton storage rings, and modeling the center-of-mass energy for various FCC-ee energy modes and RF configurations. In her current role, she dedicates her research to addressing various beam optics challenges for the electron-positron Future Circular Collider (FCC-ee). As part of this design and feasibility study, she also acts as co-convener of the energy calibration, polarisation, and monochromatisation working group, as well as the optics tuning team. |
