2nd Black Book - CP3-Origins
2nd Black Book - CP3-Origins
2nd Black Book - CP3-Origins
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Overview of the Centre<br />
Since its opening, on the 1st of September 2009, the new Centre of Excellence in Particle Physics<br />
Phenomenology CP³-<strong>Origins</strong> has been pursuing very challenging scientific goals while keeping<br />
in mind the important aspiration to assume the leading role in the Nordic countries in one of<br />
the most important areas of research worldwide. We have initiated several concrete initiatives to<br />
form a new generation of particle physicists excelling internationally. We keep building fundamental<br />
strategic research infrastructure to serve nationally while being able to lead internationally.<br />
Jeppe R. Andersen and Chris Kouvaris have both joined CP³-<strong>Origins</strong> as assistant professors in<br />
the fall 2010.<br />
Jeppe R. Andersen got his Ph.D. in physics at the University of Durham in UK,<br />
which is one of the strongest groups in particle physics phenomenology worldwide.<br />
He has held postdoctoral positions at DAMTP and Cavendish Laboratory<br />
in Cambridge and currently comes from a position as Fellow from the CERN<br />
Theory Group. His main research interests are: perturbative corrections to scattering<br />
processes at particle colliders, improving the perturbative description of<br />
particle collisions to help achieve the full scientific potential of the LHC (and<br />
other colliders) in elucidating possible new physics. He has several top cited<br />
papers and his work is expected to play a relevant role in the design of several analyses and<br />
interpretation of measurements at the Large Hadron Collider experiment at CERN.<br />
Chris Kouvaris got his Ph.D. at the renowned MIT in US. He has then held a<br />
position as excellence team member of the EXT European Commission actions,<br />
now known as the ERC. He has also won the Marie Curie Fellowship of the<br />
European commission. He comes from a position as research associate at the<br />
Université Libre de Bruxelles. His main research interests are Beyond Standard<br />
Model Physics, Technicolor, Dark Matter, Neutron Stars, High density QCD, and<br />
spin asymmetries. He has been productive with high impact research papers in<br />
all fields of research he has worked on. In particular, he has made substantial<br />
contributions while graduate student at MIT on matter in extreme conditions and in Denmark<br />
on Dark Matter from Technicolor theories and their impact on astrophysical objects.<br />
The centre has filled another assistant professor position in Lattice Field Theory for Beyond<br />
Standard Model physics accepted by Claudio Pica.<br />
Claudio Pica graduated from the worldly renowned Scuola Normale di Pisa in Italy. He has<br />
held research positions at the Brookhaven National Laboratory in US and then<br />
in the high energy group at Edinburgh in UK. Despite his young age, Pica has<br />
been extremely productive with several top cited papers and he is a leading expert<br />
in lattice field theory for models of Dynamical Electroweak Symmetry<br />
breaking. His research interests besides Beyond Standard Model physics revolve<br />
also around QCD in extreme conditions and mechanisms for confinement using<br />
advanced numerical simulations running on the most advanced computational<br />
platforms in the world. Pica has joined the centre in February 2010.<br />
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