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Christophe Grojean
Theoretical particle physics
Christophe Grojean is Lead Scientist in the DESY Theory group and Professor of Theoretical Physics at Humboldt University in Berlin. Throughout his career, he has addressed numerous topics in particle physics beyond the Standard Model. He is an expert in the physics and dynamics of the Higgs boson and its possible manifestations depending on the underlying theory. To establish the profile of the Higgs boson, he works closely with experimentalists. He is also involved in various working groups dealing with the physics case for the next colliders after the Large Hadron Collider (LHC).
Christophe Grojean started his research work in theoretical high-energy physics at the French research organisation CEA in Saclay and got his PhD from Orsay University in 1999. After two years at the University of California in Berkeley, he returned to Saclay, followed by a visiting professorship at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and a seven-year employment at CERN. In 2012, he joined the Institut de Física d’Altes Energies at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona as an ICREA Research Professor, before relocating to DESY and Humboldt University in Berlin in 2015.
Academic career
| since 2020 | Head of the DESY Theory group |
| 2023-2024 | CERN Scientific Associate |
| since 2015 | Lead Scientist at DESY and Professor of Theoretical Physics at Humboldt University in Berlin |
| 2012-2014 | ICREA Research Professor, IFAE, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain |
| 2006-2012 | Staff Scientist, CERN Physics Department Theory Unit |
| 2006 | CERN Fellow, CERN Physics Department Theory Unit |
| 2003-2004 | Visiting Professor, Michigan Center for Theoretical Physical, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA |
| 2001-2011 | Faculty member at Service de Physique Théorique, CEA Saclay (on leave at CERN from 2006 to 2011) |
| 1999-2001 | Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California, Berkeley, USA |
| 1995-1999 | PhD, University Paris XI Orsay, France |
| 1995 | Master in Theoretical Physics, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Lyon, France |
| 1992-1994 | Bachelor in Physics and Mathematics, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Lyon, France |
Memberships and roles
| since 2022 | Physics, Experiment and Detector Coordinator of the FCC Feasibility Studies |
| since 2021 | Member of the ECFA International Advisory Board for a Future Higgs Factory |
| 2018-2022 | Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of “be.h” Excellence Science Program, Belgium |
| 2015-2021 | Member of the Scientific Committee of the Galileo Galilei Institute for Theoretical Physics, Florence, Italy |
| 2014-2020 | Convener of the Physics Working Group, Linear Collider Collaboration |
| 2014-2020 | Convener of the Phenomenology Working Group, TLEP/FCC-ee Steering Committee |
| 2014-2017 | Member of Steering Committee, Higgs Cross Section Working Group |
| 2011-2020 | Editorial Board, Scientific Reports published by Nature group |
| 2010-2014 | Member of the Commission Consultative de Spécialistes de l’Université Paris XI |
| 2008-2012 | Member of the International Detector Advisory Group in charge of giving advice on the validation process of Letters of Intent and dector R&D for the International Linear Collider |
| 2007-2009 | Member of the Scientific Advisory Committee of the Experimental Particle Physics Department, Saclay, France |
| 2004-2008 | Elected member of the Scientific Research National Committee for Theoretical Physics and for Astroparticle |
