International Speakers

Achille Stocchi is a researcher in particle physics at LAL (Linear Accelerator Laboratory) on the Orsay Campus. He worked on several high energy experiments at CERN (Switzerland) at SLAC (USA) and LNF-Frascati (Italy), leading working groups and having managerial positions in the experiments. He signed the papers of DELPHI, BaBar, SuperB and UA9 experiments (over 700) and about fifty research papers or individual or on small group on detectors, data analysis and phenomenology (founding also the UTFit Collaboration)
He created the biannual Workshop CKM in 2002,  co-created the TESHEP annual school in 2007 and co-created the WISHEPP annual school in Palestine wth collaboration with An-Najah National University.

Marie-Hélène Schune is a researcher at Laboratoire de l’Accélérateur Linéaire in Orsay, France (Univ. Paris-Sud CNRS/IN2P3, Université Paris-Saclay). She obtained his PhD on the Delphi experiment at CERN from Paris-Sud university in 1990. She is curently working in the LHCb experiment at CERN. Her expertise on particle physics and specially on heavy flavours physics has been acquired through the participation in various major experiments: ALEPH and Delphi CERN on the LEP machine, BaBar at SLAC and LHCb at CERN on the LHC collider. Her main achievements are precise measurements of the Bs meson properties, first measurements of CP violation in the B-meson sector, and search for New Physics in rare B decays.
In parallel to her research, she has been active in teaching Particle Physics at the Master-2 level and was responsible of the Master-2 NPAC, a joint program of the Paris universities.

After a Ph.D. thesis in hadronic physics (COMPASS experiment at CERN), Florent Robinet joined the Laboratoire de l’Accélérateur Linéaire in Orsay, France (Univ. Paris-Sud CNRS/IN2P3, Université Paris-Saclay) in 2009, first as a post-doc then as a CNRS physicist.  Florent Robinet is working on gravitation and cosmology and is an active member of the Virgo collaboration. He is mostly involved in data analysis work, searching for gravitational waves produced by hypothetical objects called cosmic strings. He is also developing new search methods to better separate un-modelled transient signals from noise in the LIGO-Virgo data. Another important aspect of Florent Robinet’s work is about characterizing the noise of the Advanced Virgo detector: he is coordinating the Virgo detector characterization group and developing analysis tools to detect and characterize noise transients in the detector. Since 2017, Florent Robinet joined the SVOM consortium and designs the MXT X-ray telescope which will equipped the SVOM satellite. He is responsible for the development of the on-board scientific software used to locate gamma-ray bursts.

Giacomo Graziani is a researcher in experimental particle physics at INFN, Sezione di Firenze (Italy) since 2004. He obtained a PhD in Physics at the Università di Firenze in 2000, and was granted a Marie-Curie individual fellowship at LAL (Orsay, France) in 2001-2003. He is currently team leader of the Firenze LHCb group, and has been recently convenor of the Ion Physics and Fixed Target working group of the collaboration, pioneering physics with fixed targets using LHC beams. His fields of expertise, acquired through his contributions to major experiments (NOMAD, NA48, ATLAS, BaBar, LHCb, ELI-NP), include flavour physics, data analysis, calorimetry and muon detectors. He served for several years as adjunct professor at the Università di Firenze, teaching data analysis techniques to students in Mathematics.

David Rousseau is senior scientist at Laboratoire de l’Accélérateur Linéaire in Orsay, France (Univ. Paris-Sud CNRS/IN2P3, Université Paris-Saclay). He obtained his PhD on ALEPH from Université Aix Marseille in 1992, then joined ATLAS in 1997. He was involved in many software developments and coordinated the ATLAS offline software developments in 2011-2012. Meanwhile, he was also involved in Higgs boson physics. Then he turned to Machine Learning, organizing the Higgs ML challenge in 2014, and now the tracking ML challenge, both on the Kaggle platform. He is co-coordinator of the ATLAS ML forum.

 

Frédéric Machefert

Frédéric Machefert is a researcher in HEP and belogns to LAL LHCB experiments ince years, He is lecturing in many masters and internatioanl school, supervises many thesis and PhD

Abdenour Lounis is member of University Paris Saclay and Researcher in Particle Physics at LAL on the Orsay campus. He first obtained his Doctorat in Nuclear Physics at Université of Grenoble France and his Phd in Particle Physics at CERN with  University of Montreal (Canada).  His carrier has been centered around high energy physics experiments either at CERN (DELPHI at LEP, CMS and ATLAS at LHC) or D0 experiment at Fermilab Chicago (USA). His initial research background was the study of large energy flow transverse produced in high energy collisions between protons and nuclei and ions-ions interpreted with theoretical Wounded Nuclear Model or Additive Quark Model. During his research studies, he developped a significant expertise in large instruments namely position sensitive detectors systems ranging from multiwire proportionnal chamber developped by G. Charpak in CERN NA34 experiment, Microstrip gas chambers for CMS experiment, developped by F. Sauli  and since fifteen years has been specialised in silicon strip and pixel detectors for large hadron collider experiment. He is actually leading the ATLAS pixel Group at LAL for the construction of the future upgrade of inner Tracker phase.

In parallel to his research, he is heavily involved in teaching Nuclear Physics and Instrumentation in Paris Sud  (Licence) and also at the Master-1 level. He was responsible during the last ten years of the Master-1 of Nuclear Energy,  a  joint program with ParisTech Engineering schools (Centrale, Supelec, Polytechnique, Ecole de Chimie Paris and EDF).

Chantal Escudié is the assistant of the Vice-President of International Relations at Paris-Sud University.

She works in the Department of International Relations, more particularly in the coordination of programs and also deals with incoming students, hospitality, exchange agreements, etc., as well as the transformation of Paris-Sud University in Paris-Saclay.

Noura Al Sayeh-Holtrop is an architect and curator working at the Bahrain Authority for Culture and Antiquities (BACA) as Head of Architectural Affairs, where she is responsible for overseeing the planning and implementation of cultural institutions, museums and exhibitions. She holds a Master’s Degree in Architecture from the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne.

Noura was the co-curator of ‘Reclaim’, Bahrain’s first participation at the Venice Architecture Biennale in 2010 that was awarded a Golden Lion, and the Deputy Commissioner General of Bahrain’s Pavilion at the Expo Milan 2015, awarded a Silver Medal for Best Architecture and Landscape. Since 2015, she heads the ‘Pearling, Testimony of an Island Economy’, which received the Aga Khan Award for Architecture for the 2019 cycle as part of the Muharraq Revitalization project.

Mr.Martin Gastal (MBA and MSc Physics) is a senior staff member of CERN, the largest particle physics laboratory in the world. Mr.Gastal has been since 2006 the manager of the CMS experimental area, which includes the planning, coordination and follow up of all the activities of one of the largest and most advanced machines that human kind has ever built. Mr.Gastal is also the Head of the CMS Engineering and Technology Interface, an outfit dedicated to the integration of new institutes into the CMS collaboration through engineering and technological engagement. He stimulates the development of many projects that, using CERN technology, benefit the local communities and promote economic development. As CERN adviser for Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, Martin is also in charge of expanding the peaceful scientific cooperation of CERN with governmental entities of the region.

 

Ahmad Mubarak is a PhD student in Civil Engineering (Geotechnical engineering field), in a joint collaboration program between CERN (Switzerland) and the University of Dundee (UK). He holds an MSc in: Geotechnical Engineering from the University of Dundee, UK (2017-2018) and a Bachelor’s degree in civil engineering from An-Najah University in Palestine (2010-2014).

The PhD work involves numerical simulation of the large experimental caverns at CERN, to examine their long-term behaviour, stability in rocks and seismic behaviour. This will be achieved by studying the CMS Experimental Cavern at CERN as a case history.

His area of research covers the numerical simulation, geotechnics, and design and construction of underground structures (e.g. Tunnelling, large caverns and deep excavations).

He worked for 3 years in the UAE as a project engineer with a specialized advanced foundation system contractor, in some pioneering projects like Dubai Metro EXPO-Route 2020, AL-Taweela Refinery and many others.