Dr. Gijs de Rijk – (M). Gijs received a master degree in in low temperature physics from the University of Leiden. In 1986 he did a PhD at the University of Amsterdam on the results of a particle physics experiment at CERN as member of the NIKHEF institute. During his fellowship at CERN he participated on the first designs of the LHC dipoles magnets. Subsequently he participated on the commissioning of the LEP accelerator as engineer in charge in the operations group at CERN. After that he was responsible for the design and construction of all the resistive magnets in the LHC ring. From 2003 to 2006 he was responsible for one of the three construction contracts of the LHC dipoles. After the LHC construction he set up and ran the High Field Magnet project at CERN, developing the technology of Nb3Sn magnets for HL-LHC and future colliders. At the moment, he is deputy group leader of the CERN magnet group and he leads the magnet development section in that group.
Dr. Davide Tommasini – (M). After his degree on Electrical Engineering, Davide Tommasini obtained a doctorate degree in High Voltage Technologies at the University of Genova. In 1989 he joined ELETTRA, the 2.4 GeV synchrotron light source in Trieste, to be Head of the Magnet and Pulsed Magnets Group, until the successful commissioning of the accelerator in October 1993. In June 1994 he left Elettra to join CERN to work on the development of the main superconducting magnets for the LHC project, leading the superconducting models laboratory until 2001 and thereafter being "Cryodipole Coordinator" during the assembly and installation of the main LHC dipole magnets completed in 2007. Since January 2008 Davide Tommasini heads the section in charge of resistive magnets, and since June 2015 he is also leading the 16 T Magnets development program for the Future Circular Collider Study.
Dr. Andrzej Siemko – (M). He studied Physics in Warsaw where he graduated in 1994 from the Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics of the Warsaw University of Technology. In 1992 he obtained his Ph.D. from the Institute of Physics of the Polish Academy of Sciences. In 1992 joined CERN where he was responsible for power tests and quench performance studies of the LHC model and prototype magnets and later for the construction and running of the test facility for series tests of full-scale LHC superconducting magnets. Since 2009 he is the Group Leader of the Machine Protection and Electrical Integrity Group in the Technology Department with the main responsibility for the magnet protection systems and beam interlocks for the CERN accelerator complex. Main fields of activity: theory of magnetism, physics of magnetic materials, theory of coupled fields, magnetoelastic interactions, magnetization processes, design and construction of scientific instruments, applied superconductivity, technology of superconducting magnets.
Mr. Glyn Kirby – (M). Following an Engineering apprenticeship with a pump company SPP Reading he then moved to the Atomic Energy Harwell to design a reprocessing plant for the UK’s nuclear fuels. These sponsored him for his degree in Mechanical Engineering at Oxford after which he joined Oxford Instruments during 9 years where he was responsible for the conceptual design, through construction and testing of a wide range of superconducting magnet and cryogenic systems, over 60 systems in total. Moving to CERN in 1994, he was responsible for the conceptual design and manufacture of several of the LHC accelerator magnets, namely the final pocus quadrupole MQXA, and MQY, MQM, and then was responsible for transferring the technology to industry and acting as the main contact for the companies during the large scale production. He also designed a large quantity of tooling used for the assembly of the LHC cold masses. He was then project leader for MQXC, a highly challenging magnet foreseen for the phase 1 upgrade of LHC, that was successfully tested in 2012. He has been responsible for several patents, on magnet protection and construction technology. During the last 4 years, he has been responsible for the development of a HTS magnet, that will potentially push the superconducting accelerator magnets to ultra-high magnetic fields, while incorporating many new materials and processes. At the same time is developing a novel Canted Cosine Theta (CCT) orbit corrector needed for the LHC upgrade. He has published approximately 90 papers in a 30 year career in superconductivity.
Dr. Paolo Ferracin – (M). Paolo Ferracin is currently a staff scientist in the Superconducting Magnets and Cryostats Group at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Geneva. After graduating in Nuclear Engineering at the Politecnico of Torino, Italy in 1998, he joined the CERN Main Magnet and Superconductors Group as a PhD Student to work on the mechanics and magnetics of the main superconducting dipole magnets for the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). In May 2002, he started working in the Superconducting Magnet Program of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), first as a Physicist Postdoctoral Fellow and then as a Staff Scientist, on the development of Nb3Sn dipoles and quadrupoles for the next generation particle accelerators. In 2011, he re-joined the Superconducting Magnets Group at CERN, where he is working on the development of the Nb3Sn inner triplet quadrupole for the HiLumi LHC.
Dr. Torsten Koettig – (M). Torsten is and applied physicist and engineer specialized in low temperature research and development. He has nine years of experience working in European and American research laboratories with project representation in international collaborations. He holds a Master degree in supply engineering and physics. His PhD topic was “Cryogenics for superconductivity”. He has held a Senior Fellowship in the Central Cryogenic Laboratory at CERN. He also was Research Scientist at Berkeley National Laboratory, USA and Cryogenic Engineer at ESS, Sweden. Presently he holds a Physicist position in the Central Cryogenic Laboratory of CERN.
Dr. Johannes Gutleber – (M). Johannes Gutleber received a Ph.D. from Technical University Vienna (Austria) in 1999. At CERN since 1997, he is a senior scientist. His earlier experience includes work on distributed re-active real-time databases for air quality monitoring networks, the development of a national information management system for radio-nuclides produced in a fission reactor, the development of the data acquisition system software for the CMS experiment at the LHC and the development of the accelerator controls, safety systems and IT infrastructure of the MedAustron ion therapy facility. He received the IEEE Cluster Computing awards, the Intel Intelligent system award, the NI Humanitarian award and the NI Graphical Systems Award. Since 2013 he is the scientific secretary of the world-wide Future Circular Collider study, focusing on strengthening the industrial participation in large-scale research, building a durable network of universities, research centres, industry associations and for-profit organisations, striving to identify pathways to valorise the socio-economic impacts of fundamental research. Johannes authored the EuroCirCol H2020 Research Infrastructure Action submission for a post-LHC energy frontier particle collider infrastructure.
Mr. Han Dols – (M). Han joined the CERN Business Development section in 2017, with responsibility for building industrial strategic partnerships. Aim is to help accelerating innovation at multinationals, SMEs and start-ups by leveraging the wide range of CERN technologies. Prior to joining CERN, Han worked for 15 years at DSM, a global company in the material and life science industry. At DSM, he led strategic marketing planning for various industrial segments (automotive, electronics and industrial coatings). Before that, he was part of the DSM Innovation Center, with responsibility for global business development of the world’s strongest fiber in medical applications like heart valves, covered stents and orthopedics devices. Han also created and executed a strategy for bringing a wide portfolio of regenerative medical materials to market in Europe and Asia. Prior to this, he held a management position at DSM in supply chain & e-business. At CMG, a consultancy headquartered in London, Han was responsible for running technology projects with companies including Daimler-Benz, Vodafone and Philips. Han started his career in industry in 1994 at Medtronic, where he was executing clinical evaluations of new therapies across Europe, using novel pacing devices for treatment of heart failure. Han studied physics at TU Delft and is an alumnus of IMD (Geneva), Webster University (Leiden), and the Haas School of Management, University California (USA). Han is Founder of HumanXR, a social enterprise bringing virtual reality to older people for mental and physical activation.
