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Satoshi MIHARA is an experimentalist at the High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK) / Japan Proton Accelerator Research Complex (J-PARC). He worked in the OPAL experiment at LEP and is now involved in muon rare decay search experiments, the MEG at Paul Scherrer Institute in Switzerland and the COMET at J-PARC.
Mark Hanhardt is an experiment support scientist at the Sanford Underground Research Facility (SURF), a PhD student at the South Dakota School of Mines & Technology, and a part-time supervillain. In addition to assisting with many of the ongoing experiments at SURF, Mark was the Operations Manager for the LUX (Large Underground Xenon) dark matter search during its run and now works as a researcher on the CASPAR (Compact Accelerator System for Performing Astrophysical Research) project.
Krystian Rosłon is a PhD student at the Warsaw University of Technology. Since 2015, he has also been working at the Laboratory of High Energy Physics of the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna (Russia).
His interest in research is extensive. He works on the cooling systems designed for the Slow Control System of the MPD Detector, as well as on the analysis of the K+K-femtoscopic correlation.
Moreover, he is involved in different popular science activities: he is the vice president of the interdepartmental science club “CAMAC”, assistant to the Association of Young Scientists and Specialists (AYSS) of JINR in the matters related to organizing conferences and other scientific events. He is also a project supervisor for students coming to Dubna to participate in the JINR International Student Practices and JINR Summer Student Programme.
Kelly Stifter is a 3rd year Ph.D. student and NSF fellow studying astroparticle physics at Stanford University. She is currently working at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory on designing, building, and operating mid-scale prototypes for the upcoming LZ detector, which will be looking for dark matter particles called WIMPs that scientists think make up 25% of the universe. Previously, she has worked at several different particle physics facilities including CERN, Fermilab, and the Soudan Mine. She has a passion for science communication and outreach, as well as contributing to efforts to bring increased equity and inclusion to all communities she belongs to. In her free time, she enjoys rock climbing, backpacking, and video games.
Kelly Stifter is a Ph.D. student studying at Stanford University. Her journey to particle physics has been influenced heavily by her family. Read about what makes a physicist!
Julian Borrill leads the Computational Cosmology Center at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory - a collaboration between the lab's Physics and Computational Research Divisions to address the most computationally challenging problems in cosmology. His research is focused on deploying the most powerful supercomputers available to analyze observations of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB), both to determine the basic parameters of fundamental physics and cosmology and to use as a backlight to the formation and evolution of structure in the Universe. After Masters degrees in Mathematics and Political Science, Astrophysics, and Information Technology, a Doctorate in Theoretical Physics, and postdoctoral research at Imperial College London, Dartmouth College, and Berkeley Lab, he became a Staff Scientist in 1999 and Senior Staff Scientist in 2010. He is the US Computational Systems Architect for the ESA/NASA Planck satellite mission, serves on the Data Management Committee of the Simons Observatory, and was recently elected co-Spokesperson of the proposed CMB-S4 network of ground-based CMB telescopes.
Since 2016, Juan Rojo has been Assistant Professor of Theoretical Physics at the Vrije Universiteit (VU) Amsterdam and Staff member at the Theory group of Nikhef, the Dutch National Institute for Subatomic Physics. After getting his PhD in Barcelona in 2006, he was a postdoctoral researcher in Paris, Milan and at CERN, followed by a faculty position at the University of Oxford. Juan's research interests are focused on the applications of Quantum Chromodynamics to the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN and on the exploitation of Machine Learning algorithms in High-Energy Physics. More information about Juan can be found on his website www.juanrojo.com and you can also find him on Twitter: @JuanRojoC.
One of the most awkward questions that scientists must endure in family gatherings and other related social events is about what exactly we do for a living. At least my experimental colleagues can reply by explaining that they do experiments, tinker with big detectors and that they basically measure things. But a theorist? Do we spend all our time just idly sitting around and ``theorizing''? What does that even mean? And do we get paid for that? Sometimes, if I aim for a short conversation, I simply reply to these questions that ``I teach at the university'', which however often leads to the follow-up remark about what we do when we are not teaching...
Zhu Kai is an Associate Professor at the Institute of High Energy Physics (IHEP). There, he mainly studies the decay and production of charmonium and XYZ resonances at the BESIII experiment.
Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Ruan Manqi is currently an associate researcher at the Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He is currently leading the simulation efforts, establishing the CEPC detector geometry and accomplishing the physics potential studies at the Circular Electron Positron Collider. He is also very active at promoting the science to the public. He has organized lectures and training courses for scientists to teach them how to write for the public.
Alessia Embriaco is a 3rd year Ph.D. student working on Hadron therapy at INFN Pavia. She is currently working at the implementation of a model for the energy deposition of ion beam called MONET (Model of ioN dosE for Therapy), in the contest of cancer treatment. In addition to her research, Alessia is involved in many outreach activities, in particular organizes experiments and laboratories for children.
Silvia Biondi graduated in “Sapienza” University of Rome in 2013, with a master thesis on the New Small Wheel upgrade for the ATLAS Muon Spectrometer, LHC. She obtained her PhD in 2017 at the University of Bologna, working on the study of the Higgs boson production in association with top quark pairs at high-energy regimes. Now she is a INFN post-doc researcher at the same university and she is also an active member and photographer of the ATLAS outreach group at CERN and in Italy (ATLAS Italia).
Jessica Esquivel is a 5th year Ph.D. student studying high energy experimental physics from Syracuse University. She is currently working at Fermilab on the MicroBoone Collaboration, which works to detect ghostly particles called neutrinos in order to help us to crack several big mysteries of the universe. In addition to her research, Jessica is passionate about STEM outreach, bringing awareness to the lack of diversity in physics, and encouraging young minorities to reach their full potential.
High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK)
Teppei Katori is an experimental particle physicist and a lecturer at Queen Mary University of London, UK. He obtained his PhD at Indiana University, Bloomington (2008) on neutrino cross section measurements and tests of Lorentz invariance with the MiniBooNE neutrino experiment, Fermilab. After taking postdoc position at Conrad group, MIT (2009-2013), he was appointed on the current position. He is the recipient of 2012 IUPAP C11 young scientist prize and 2013 APS Henry Primakoff award. Currently he serves as a committee member of IoP Astroparticle physics group.
High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK)
Saurabh Sandilya is an experimental high energy physicist, currently working as a Post-Doctoral Researcher in the Department of Physics, University of Cincinnati. He is mostly located at the High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK), Japan for the development and commissioning of the Time of Propagation detector for the Belle II experiment. He also analyses physics data from the electron positron collisions recorded by the Belle experiment at the KEKB accelerator.
I’m an experimental physicist in the field of high precision/low energy particle physics. Currently, I work at TRIUMF in of a small team of researchers who are taking part in one of the most fascinating pursuits in particle physics: the hunt for the electric dipole moment (EDM) of the neutron.
My name is Beatrice, and I’m an experimental physicist in the field of high precision/low energy particle physics. Currently, I work at TRIUMF in of a small team of researchers who are taking part in one of the most fascinating pursuits in particle physics: the hunt for the electric dipole moment (EDM) of the neutron. This project is a Japanese-Canadian collaboration between KEK, U Osaka, RCNP, U Winnipeg, U Manitoba, TRIUMF, UBC, UNBC, and SFU.
I lead the experimental particle physics group at the University of Adelaide and am a member of CoEPP (the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Particle Physics at the Terascale).
I’m a member of the ATLAS and Belle II experiments where I’m using new techniques to search for physics we have yet to observe.