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am currently a scientific employee at the University of Dortmund,
Germany, where I run a solid-state detector development project
for the LHCb experiment at CERN. Artificial diamond sensors are
planned to protect the LHCb detector against possible adverse beam
conditions of CERN’s future Large Hadron Collider.
After my studies of physics at the University of Munich, Germany
and Munich Technical University, from which I graduated in 1996,
I did some physics teaching for engineering students at the Bundeswehr
University, as part of the education of future officers in the German
Federal Armed Forces.
The first detector development project I became involved in was
the large-scale production of straw drift tubes for the COMPASS
experiment at CERN. For this I spent four years at the Joint Institute
for Nuclear Research in Dubna, Russia. Afterwards I did some technical
coordination for the COMPASS experimental collaboration. As a CERN
fellow, I then switched over to solid state detector applications
in high-energy physics, also using passive sensor techniques for
the dosimetry in test beam experiments, dealing with the radiation
hardness of sensor materials. So also the effects of ionizing radiation
in general caught my interest, including radiation protection.
As an official CERN guide, I devote part of my leisure time in explaining
to an interested public what particle physics is about, and I hope
that skills I might have acquired in this activity will also help
me to serve the IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society as the
new membership chair. I will try to be a help to any member that
needs assistance; thank you for your trust.
Christoph J. Ilgner, European Organization for Nuclear Research
(CERN) and University of Dortmund, Germany, can be reached at CERN,
Dept. ULB-PH 1211 Geneva 23, Switzerland; Phone: +41-22-76-72969
Fax: +41-22-76-79080; E-mail: christoph.ilgner@cern.ch.
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