Pauli Lectures 2014

Gian Francesco Giudice is a theoretical particle physicist working at the CERN Theory Group. After graduating from the University of Padua, he obtained his PhD in theoretical physics in 1988 from SISSA in Trieste. He worked at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, near Chicago, and at the University of Texas, in the group of Prof. S. Weinberg, before moving to CERN in 1993. His research focuses on the construction of new theories beyond the Standard Model of particle interactions and on their implications for the early history of our universe. Supersymmetry and extra dimensions are fields in which he has made fundamental contributions. Besides his research work, Giudice is active in the popularization of science and outreach. He is the author of A Zeptospace Odyssey, a popular-science book on the physics of the Large Hadron Collider. He has been awarded the 2013 Jacques Solvay Chair in Physics.

Peter Jenni obtained his Diploma for Physics at the University of Bern in 1973 and his Doctorate at ETH Zürich in 1976. During 1978/9, he was a Research Associate at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Centre (SLAC), USA. He became a CERN research staff physicist in 1980 with the UA2 experiment at the SPS pp_bar collider (with a major involvement in the discoveries of the W and Z bosons). His strong interest was with the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) since the beginning in 1984. From 1991 his main activities concentrated on building up of an LHC experiment. In 1995, after formal approval of the ATLAS project, he was elected its Spokesperson (project leader). He was re-elected several times, and retired from this duty in February 2009, retaining however a strong involvement in the operation and physics of the experiment. Since his retirement at CERN end of April 2013, Peter Jenni is a Guest Scientist with the Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg, Germany. He received (or shared) among others the Swiss Greinacher Prize, the Czech Academy of Sciences Ernst Mach Honorary Medal, the German Julius Wess Award, a share of the Special Fundamental Physics Prize (FPP), and a share of the High Energy and Particle Physics Prize of the European Physical Society (EPS). He also received honorary PhD degrees from the Universities of Stockholm and Copenhagen, and from the ETHZ.

Born in 1945, Lyn Evans has spent his whole career in the field of high energy physics and particle accelerators, participating in all the great projects of CERN. Since 1993 he has led the team that designed, built and commissioned the LHC. He is presently a visiting professor at Imperial College London and Director of the Linear Collider Collaboration. Among his many honours he is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and a Fellow of the Royal Society. He was awarded a Fundamental Physics Prize in 2013 for his contribution to the discovery of the Higgs-like boson.