Anna Sfyrla

Associate professor

Pantelis Kontaxakis                   

Postdoctoral researcher
(ATLAS / FCCee)
since May 2022

Arash Jofrehei

Postdoctoral researcher
(FASER)
since August 2025

Leon Bozianu

Ph.D. student
(ATLAS - SMARTHEP)
since October 2022

Lucas Bezio

Ph.D. student
(ATLAS)
since October 2023

Eliot Bornand                   

Ph.D. student
(FASER)
since September 2025

Andrea Pizarro Medina

Ph.D. student
(FASER)
since August 2025

Alexis Marquet

Electronics engineer
(ATLAS TDAQ)
since September 2025


CERN doctoral students

Giovanni Rupnik Boero                

(ATLAS - NextGen)
since May 2024
CERN supervisor: Marco Valente

Edward Galantay

(FASER)
from September 2024
CERN supervisor: Brian Petersen

Critchley Thomas

(ATLAS - NextGen)
from November 2024
CERN supervisor: Brian Petersen



Also happily collaborating with

the DPNC mechanical & electronics engineering teams
and many rewarding colleagues on ATLAS, FASER and FCCee.


Thanks to our secretary, Katia Corpataux, for her support!

Useful links

Internal information for Ph.D. students

Opportunities

Swiss Government Excellence Scholarships for students and postdocs


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Part of the team in December 2023

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Part of the team in front of FASER

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Part of the team out for fondue, 2023

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Another fondue, December 2024

Former members

Postdoctoral research associates and engineers

  • Quentin Berthet, 2022 - 2025. Next: Professor at HEPIA, Geneva.
  • Claire Antel, 2019 - 2025. Next: Staff scientist at CERN.
  • Chiara Rizzi, 2020 - 2021. Next: Data analyst at ACAPS NGO.
  • Teng Jian Khoo, 2016 - 2020. Next: Postdoc at Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany.
  • William Fawcett, 2017 - 2018. Next: Postdoc at Cambridge, UK.

    Ph.D. students

  • Sofia Cella (link to thesis), 2021 - 2025. Doctoral student, CERN supervisor: Brian Petersen. Next: postdoc at University of Tel-Aviv.
  • Noshin Tarannum (link to thesis), 2021 - 2025. Next: postdoc at University of Bristol.
  • Stefano Franchellucci (link to thesis), 2021 - 2025. Next: postdoc at University of Bern.
  • Kostas Axiotis (link to thesis), 2020 - 2025. Doctoral student, CERN supervisor: Brian Petersen. Next: project engineer at DPNC.
  • Ondrej Theiner (link to thesis), 2019 - 2024.
  • Riccardo Poggi (link to thesis), 2018 - 2021. Next: Private sector.
  • Marco Valente (link to thesis), 2016 - 2020. Recipient of the 2020 ATLAS thesis award. Next: Postdoc at TRIUMF, Canada; then CERN research fellow.
  • Joaquin Hoya: Visiting student, Swiss government excellence scolar, 2017 - 2018. Next: Postdoc at University of La Plata, Argentina.

    Master students

  • Malik Algelly (informatics) (link to thesis). 2023-2024. Next: CERN doctoral student (accelerator).
  • Edward Galantay (link to thesis). 2023-2024. Next: CERN doctoral student (EP/DT).
  • Thomas Critchley (link to thesis). 2023-2024. Next: CERN doctoral student (NextGen trigger).
  • Mathias Moors (link to thesis). 2023-2024. Next: Ph.D. student at U. Bonn.
  • David Nogueiras Blanco (informatics), 2022-2023.
  • Dimitri Moulin (link to thesis), 2022 - 2023.
  • Tanishq Sharma (link to thesis), 2021 - 2022. Next: Ph.D. student in U. Torino.
  • Gentian Shatri (link to thesis), 2021 - 2022. Next: Ph.D. student in the DPNC, UniGe.
  • Eliott Johnson (link to thesis), 2019 - 2020. Next: Junior fellow at CERN.
  • Yannick Demets (link to thesis), 2018 - 2019. Next: Ph.D. student in the DPNC, UniGe.
  • Julien Songeon (link to thesis), 2018 - 2019. Next: Ph.D. student in the Department of Radiology and Medical Informatics, UniGe.

    Interns

  • Emma Bianchi (3rd year BSc UniGe Physics), summer 2024.
  • Anurag Sawarkar (3rd year BSc UniGe Physics), summer 2024.
  • Maike Reckermann (DPNC master student), spring 2023.
  • Saverio Capolongo (Sapienza, Rome, erasmus student, link to thesis), spring-summer 2022.
  • Snigdho Chakraborty (IISER Kolkata, India), 2021.
  • Gianluca Folino (1st year BSc UniGe Physics), summer 2021.
  • Elisaveta Dourassova (3rd year BSc UniGe Physics), summer 2021.
  • ClĂ©ment Thorens (3rd year BSc UniGe Informatics), summer 2020.
  • Elham Amin Mansour (2nd year BSc UniGe Informatics), summer 2019.
  • Numerous CERN summer students have been supervised within our team.




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    The team in March 2018