A. Deisting

My name is Alexander Deisting and I am a post-doctoral researcher at University of Mainz in the XENONnT/DARWIN group of Uwe Oberlack and I live in Germany and England. My interest is the development of particle detector technologies with a strong focus on time projection chambers (TPCs). Furthermore, I am interested in teaching. I contributed to lecture courses ("Particle detectors", "Astroparticle Physics", "C++", "Physics of the universe") and I mentor and supervise Bachelor, Masters and PhD students during their research work in the lab and also as the supervisor of their thesis. Previously, I have worked at Royal Holloway, University of London, in the "Dark matter and neutrino group" of Jocelyn Monroe. My focus has been the development of gaseous detectors for particle tracking, in particular developing a high-pressure gas TPC which is read out by cameras. Such an optical read out TPC provides a high readout granularity and is a great candidate for a detector to measure neurino-nucelues scattering. In particular when operated at a strong neutrino beam as e.g. the beam of the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE). I worked on the development of the DUNE near detector high pressure gas TPC, leading the tests of an ALICE multi wire proportional chamber at high pressure at Royal Holloway, University of London. Before that I did a doctorate of natural science (Dr. rer. nat.) in Physics with the Karl Rupprechts Universtiät Heidelberg and GSI in the ALICE group of Silvia Masciocchi. During this time I worked on the developed of the new readout chambers for the ALICE TPC and I had the pleasure to live for more than three years in the suisse-romande (and just about in France, close to Genève) and to work at CERN, supervised by Chilo Garabatos. For my undergraduate I studied in Bonn and worked on clustering algorithms for the ILD TPC and I demonstrated the feasibility of reading out the induced ion signal on the the grid of Bonn InGrid detector for the CAST experiment, in order to use it as a muon veto. Both works were done in the ILC and CAST group of Klaus Desch.