Description
Andre came to CERN in 1997 to pursue a master degree performing simulations for the CMS experiment. For his PhD, he searched for the Higgs boson with the L3 experiment at LEP. In 2002 he moved back to the CMS experiment where he could work on many different aspects, including firmware development, detector simulation, physics analysis and interpretation with several institutes. From 2010 on his main focus was on the CMS Data Acquisition system. End of 2018 he moved to the industry as a software engineer for Oculus Virtual Reality headsets at Facebook.