Joshua is a Research Fellow working on the development of high precision fast calorimeter simulations. He received his PhD in physics within the Wolfgang-Gentner programme at CERN and has been a member of the ATLAS collaboration since his undergraduate days. He has been actively involved in various aspects of the experiment, including performance studies and the search for new physics. He is currently the coordinator of the ATLAS Fast Calorimeter Simulation Group and the lead developer of the FastCaloSimV2 package, which has been used to produce several billion simulated events since the end of Run 2 of the Large Hadron Collider.

I'm Sara, a recent graduate now with the CMS Resources Office at CERN, providing financial and administrative support to CMS sub-detector projects and institutes. Having focused on PCB procurement in BE-CEM-EPR as an administrative student, I now take pride in accomplishing diverse administrative tasks vital to the CMS Collaboration. My responsibilities span coordinating living allowances, planning events, and drafting essential documents and financial reports. Diplomatically engaged with stakeholders at all levels, I'm ready to assist in the senior administrator role when needed.
Eager to contribute to our department's collaborative success, I look forward to being an integral part of our dynamic team.

Hello! I am Petar and I recently joined CERN as a research fellow. During my time here, I will continue working on the ATLAS experiment. I study interactions of the Higgs boson with other particles and itself. An important part of my research is to search for pair production of Higgs bosons to find evidence for the Higgs boson self-interaction. I am also working on the ATLAS trigger system, where I will be involved in the trigger operations during the data-taking, as well as in the activities related to the upgrade of the system for Run 4 of the LHC.

I am an experimental physicist and I joined CERN as a research fellow in September. I first joined CERN as a Summer Student back in 2014. As a fellow, I'll be working in the ATLAS experiment on the High Granularity Timing Detector upgrade, in particular on the data acquisition software. Further, I'll be working in the Faser experiment on the tracker alignment. On the physics side, I have been and am working on measurements in diboson final states, on HH and new physics searches with ATLAS data. I am looking forward to working with CERN!

I joined the microelectronics group (EP-ESE-MCE) in July 2023. I am analog designer working on MOSIAX chip that is going to replace the vertexing layers of the ALICE-ITS3 detector. MOSAIX is a wafer scale monolithic pixel detector that would allow to significantly reduce the material budget of the inner tracker. I obtained the PhD degree in physics at Cracow University of Science and Technology, where already I that point, I was involved into R&D program aiming to bring monolithic technologies into the high energy physics experime

Mateusz is working on the heterogeneous software frameworks in the scope of Key4hep. In particular, he is investigating the prospects of a heterogeneous scheduler for the Gaudi framework. During his PhD studies at the University of Warsaw, he was a member and core developer of the Warsaw TPC collaboration studying photonuclear reactions with a novel active-target time projection chamber.

Hi! I have recently joined the AEgIS experiment at the Antiproton Decelerator as a Marie-Curie fellow. My background is actually less in antimatter research than in experiments with ultracold charged atoms and molecules. At AEgIS my mission will be to explore and implement new techniques for cooling antiprotons close to absolute zero temperature. If successful, this could enable measurements of the gravitational acceleration of antihydrogen with substantially improved precision. I enjoy being part of the amazing team of scientists working here and being able to get first-hand experience on antimatter research.

I am delighted to return to CERN now as an Early Career Professional(Origin), joining the Offline and Computing (O&C) Group in the CMS Experiment. I did my bachelors in CS from FAST NUCES, Karachi. My journey here started as a CERN OpenLab summer student in 2021, working on the BioDynaMo project. Following this, I expanded my expertise as an Applied Research Engineer with an AI and Computer Vision startup. Now, I am back at CERN, contributing to the Development and Operations of the workflow management system for Physics Monte Carlo simulations and Data reconstruction on the LHC computing grid (WLCG). I'm excited about working on a project with global computing needs, applying my passions in computing to contribute to groundbreaking physics research.

As the ISOLDE Physics Coordinator, I am the liaison between the experimental users and the CERN technical teams. My main responsibility is the development of the intricate ISOLDE beam time schedule and overseeing its implementation in close collaboration with the technical teams. Given that the facility annually hosts 50-60 experiments across a dozen experimental stations, my role involves solving a complex puzzle striving to optimize the facility's scientific output within the numerous constraints.

I am an experimental research fellow since November 2023, working on the FASER experiment and a R&D project to develop a novel monolithic pixel sensor named MALTA. During my PhD, I specialized in astroparticle physics with telescopes in Canary islands, Spain and after graduating, I transitioned to particle physics, focusing on FASER as a postdoc at Tsinghua University. I have been working on the search for long-lived particles, including studies with the FASER tracker system. Additionally, I am exploring the application of high-energetic forward neutrino studies from the LHC into cosmic-ray physics to enhance our understanding of air showers.

I am Sokratis Koseoglou, a 26 years old and I became a member of the EP-ESE-ME section in September 2023.I am working on the Power Distribution Team of Stefano Michelis, that designs radiation tolerant DC/DC Converters. My work is mainly involved in preparing testing setups for the characterization and radiation testing of the various DC/DC converters. The main purpose is to develop versatile, compact and accurate measuring boards that facilitate the testing process of the power converters.

My name is Alejandro Martin, I started at CERN on the first of November as a mechanical engineer for ITk in ATLAS. I will be designing the ITk services and envelope in collaboration with Martin Janda, helping Martin Jaekel with the decommissioning of the current inner detector, and working in the integration planning of ITk in SR1 with Cyril Degeorge. I start this new adventure eager to learn from my colleagues and willing to become both a better engineer and a better human being.

As a Senior research fellow at CERN, I plan to work on the LHCb experiment. Here I will be conducting stringent tests of Lattice QCD predictions and constrain new physics contributions in the semileptonic b-hadron decays. My responsibilities include coordinating activities for the development of offline analysis tools for Run 3 and designing signal isolation techniques for integration into the trigger system. Additionally, I aim to actively contribute to the advancements associated with LHCb Upgrade II, with a specific emphasis on tracking systems.

I am a 22-year-old civil engineer from Norway, currently pursuing a master’s degree in industrial economics and technology leadership. I am part of the CMS Experimental Area Management Team (EP-CMX-SCI) through the Origin program, where I oversee a diverse range of construction projects vital for the CMS experiment. In my role, I navigate and manage the intersections between various stakeholders to ensure that the infrastructure aligns with the experiment's requirements. This includes finance, design, scheduling, and general management. Currently, I am actively engaged in various projects, including infrastructure upgrades, the construction of CMS's new data acquisition room, the expansion of the CMS site, establishment of CMS facilitation buildings, and the reconfiguration of the assembly hall for the detector. I am excited about the chance to gain practical experience in project management while collaborating with good colleagues within an international setting.

In June 2023, I joined the EP-DT-TP group as a CERN QUEST fellow to work on detector R&D projects for future collider experiments. In particular, I am involved in the development of monolithic pixel detectors and their dedicated DAQ and test systems. Prior to my current position, I was exclusively involved in the upgrade of the CMS detector. As a Summer Student then Technical Student at CERN, I worked on the BCM1F detector upgrade for the CMS BRIL project. Finally, as a PhD student at DESY,
affiliated to the University of Hamburg, I focused on the CMS Tracker upgrade for the HL-LHC phase.

I joined CERN in July 2023 as a Software Engineer (ORIGIN) for the EP-AIP group. My educational background includes a BSc in Computer Science from the University of Birmingham. My research focussed on the use of anomaly detection with artificial intelligence, specifically variational autoencoders and transformers, for the purpose of detecting DNA translocation events in a nanopore.
I’m delighted to be contributing to the group, where my focus is now on future developments and maintenance of the Hyperloop train system.

Hello, I am Sergi Rodriguez, a physicist with an Applied Senior Fellow contract at CERN in the EP-ADO-AM group. I started my journey in 2015 with the University of Valencia, working on the upgrade Phase-II hadronic calorimeter of ATLAS as well as participating in the fermionic Higgs coupling analyses. After obtaining my PhD, I moved to Heidelberg University where I developed most of the offline software for the upgrade Phase-I L1Calo triggers. From October 2023 I started my fellowship at CERN, working for the Inner Detector group of ATLAS on the offline software of Pixel and TRT. My main focus is on smoothing and optimising the calibration chain with an interest in automating the derivation and application of the optimum calibration with increasing integrated delivered luminosity.

I joined the ALICE experiment in 2006 where have contributed to detector development and realization of the Electromagnetic Calorimeter and the MAPS-based Inner Tracker System pixel detector for Run3. I had also the responsibility to be ALICE Run Coordinator for the restarts of both Run 2 and Run 3. Now, as CERN staff I perform the function of Technical Coordinator of the ALICE Event Processing Nodes, a 2800-GPU computer farm critical to process, calibrate and compress the huge raw data stream (up to almost 1 TB/s in PbPb) produced by the continuous readout of the upgraded ALICE detector.

I am an aerospace engineer graduated at Politecnico di Milano. I pursued a PhD in the same field at Delft University of Technology. I joined the EP-DT-EO group as a post-doctoral research fellow in November 2023, and I am working on the EP-R&D project (WP4 - Detector Mechanics). The project is devoted to introducing robotic systems in the design of future particle detectors, as well as in the inspection of current detectors. The ambitious goal is to have future detectors fully assembled, maintained, inspected, and operated by robots working in environments with high level of radiations and strong magnetic fields.

I am a post career break fellow and joined CERN on Sep 1, 2023. Previously I was based at CERN from 2008-2014 and on for ATLAS experiment as a postdoc with University of Oregon. After a break of nine years, mainly to raise the family, I am back to Physics.

I have joined ATLAS and FASER experiments. On ATLAS, I am part of the trigger team. The main project is the commissioning of the new L1 items for tau trigger that have been implemented during the upgrade of L1Calo system. To find out, which isolation criterion at L1 is the best for tau trigger to maximize the signal efficiency while keeping the rates in allowed range. Furthermore, improving the monitoring of the tau trigger and help with trigger release coordination are parts of my project. At a later stage I’ll get involved with a Physics analysis which will most likely be related to the tau objects in final fine.

On FASER, I am working on analyzing the sources of muons coming from various sources. Although most of the high-energy muons are deflected by the LHC magnets, some of them can still reach FASER. This is especially true for the ones produced in showers initiated by neutral particles hitting the neutral particle absorber TAN about 140 m away from the ATLAS IP.

Hello! I've recently joined the EP-NU group as an applied physicist. My research will mainly focus on building charge readout planes for the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) and performing R&D to further improve the Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber (LArTPC) technology. I received my PhD from the University of Bern in 2015 with a thesis on “Observation of muon neutrino to tau neutrino appearance with the OPERA experiment”. Before this position, first as a post-doctoral researcher at Yale University and later as a CERN fellow, I worked on developing and constructing LArTPC based neutrino experiments.

I joined the EP-DT-FS section as an Origin candidate after graduating from the KU Leuven in Belgium with a MSc in Mathematical Engineering. At CERN, I am dealing with maintenance and operation of industrial gas systems for gaseous detectors. These complex installations have very high requirements in terms of reliability and the properties of the supplied gas mixtures. My main focus is on improving the performance of our systems on the software level. However, I also work on additional projects, such as a flow sensor calibration setup and a compact gas recirculation system for use at universities.