Christian Schwanenberger

CMS experiment at the LHC

Christian Schwanenberger is Lead Scientist at DESY and Professor at the University of Hamburg. He is member of the CMS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN in Geneva and of the D0 experiment at the Tevatron collider at Fermilab, USA. His main topic of research is elementary particle physics. In particular, he focuses on precision measurements of the properties of the top quark and its electroweak and strong couplings, the interaction between the top quark and the Higgs boson, searches for supersymmetric and other exotic extensions of the Standard Model of particle physics as well as searches for dark matter.

 

Academic career

Since 2020 Professor at the University of Hamburg
Since 2015 Lead Scientist at DESY
Since 2015 Visiting Professor, University of Manchester, UK
2012-2015 Professor, University of Manchester, UK
2012-2015 Research stay at CERN, Switzerland
2010-2012 Senior Research Fellow, University of Manchester, UK
2006-2010 Lecturer, University of Manchester, UK
2004-2012 Research stays at Fermilab, USA
2004-2006 Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Bonn
2001 Leave of absence: Postdoctoral Research Associate, Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI), Switzerland
1999-2004 Postdoctoral Research Associate, DESY
1999 PhD, University of Heidelberg
1995 Diploma, University of Heidelberg
1989-1995 Study of Physics, University of Heidelberg

 

Memberships

Since 2015 CMS collaboration at the LHC proton–proton collider, CERN, Switzerland
2007-2015 ATLAS collaboration at the LHC proton–proton collider, CERN, Switzerland
2009-2013 Member of the D0 Speakers Bureau (committee to select speakers for conference talks)
Since 2004 D0 collaboration at the Tevatron proton–antiproton collider, Fermilab, USA
2000-2004 H1 collaboration at the HERA electron–proton collider, DESY
Since 2000 Member of the German Physical Society (DPG)