Günther Dissertori

Günther Dissertori (born November 24, 1969 in Meran ) is an Italian physicist and professor of particle physics at the ETH Zurich . He is an expert in quantum chromodynamics and has been involved in the CMS experiment at the LHC accelerator at CERN for many years, where the Higgs boson was discovered in 2012 .

Life

Dissertori spent his childhood in Lagundo , where he attended elementary and middle school. His academic career began at the "Albert Einstein" secondary school in Merano and at the University of Innsbruck in Austria, where he studied physics. He completed his physics studies in 1997 with his doctoral thesis on the ALEPH detector at CERN with summa cum laude. After completing his studies, he worked for the next four years at CERN's LEP storage ring , first as a CERN fellow and later as a member of the CERN Research Staff. During this time he continued his work on the ALEPH detector and also began to get involved in the CMS particle detector at the LHC . In September 2001 he began his work as an assistant professor at the ETH Zurich. In 2007 he was appointed full professor.

Services

During the years at the ETH, his research group focused on the construction, commissioning and handling of the CMS detector, with a special focus on the crystals of the electromagnetic calorimeter . The research group has played a leading role in CMS data analysis since the data was recorded at the end of 2009. Despite his extensive research, Dissertori did not neglect his role as a professor at ETH, which is why he has already been awarded three “Golden Owls” (in 2005, 2009 and 2015) and in 2013 with the “Credit Suisse Award for Best Teaching”.

literature

• Günther Dissertori, Ian G. Knowles and Michael Schmelling: Quantum Chromodynamics High Energy Experiments and Theory. Clarendon Press, 10 April 2003, ISBN 978-0-19-850572-3

Individual evidence

• ETH Zurich article on Günther Dissertori (English)
• Dissertoris research group at the ETH (English)
• Curriculum Vitae (English)