M. Weber

Michele Weber received the Ph.D. degree in physics from the University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland, in 2001. He has designed, built, and operated detectors using all major techniques common in particle physics, most recently liquid argon TPCs and silicon pixel detectors and their applications to other fields (e.g., nuclear medicine). He also has great experience in data analysis, including the application of most modern analysis techniques both to precision measurements and searches for new physics. After working on experiments searching for exotic states of matter (quark-gluon plasma), he worked at Fermilab, Batavia, NY, USA, on the D0 collider detector, specifically on its silicon-based tracker. In 2007, he joined the ATLAS experiment with the University of Bern, working on the silicon pixel detector and its upgrades including research and development on novel monolithic sensors. He also developed a new generation of modular liquid argon TPCs for neutrino measurements, which will find application in the near detector of the DUNE experiment in the USA. Since 2020, he has been the Director of the Laboratory for High Energy Physics (LHEP). He is currently a Full Professor with the University of Bern.