2nd Black Book - CP3-Origins

Overview of the Centre
Since its opening, on the 1st of September 2009, the new Centre of Excellence in Particle Physics
Phenomenology CP³-Origins has been pursuing very challenging scientific goals while keeping
in mind the important aspiration to assume the leading role in the Nordic countries in one of
the most important areas of research worldwide. We have initiated several concrete initiatives to
form a new generation of particle physicists excelling internationally. We keep building fundamental
strategic research infrastructure to serve nationally while being able to lead internationally.
Jeppe R. Andersen and Chris Kouvaris have both joined CP³-Origins as assistant professors in
the fall 2010.
Jeppe R. Andersen got his Ph.D. in physics at the University of Durham in UK,
which is one of the strongest groups in particle physics phenomenology worldwide.
He has held postdoctoral positions at DAMTP and Cavendish Laboratory
in Cambridge and currently comes from a position as Fellow from the CERN
Theory Group. His main research interests are: perturbative corrections to scattering
processes at particle colliders, improving the perturbative description of
particle collisions to help achieve the full scientific potential of the LHC (and
other colliders) in elucidating possible new physics. He has several top cited
papers and his work is expected to play a relevant role in the design of several analyses and
interpretation of measurements at the Large Hadron Collider experiment at CERN.
Chris Kouvaris got his Ph.D. at the renowned MIT in US. He has then held a
position as excellence team member of the EXT European Commission actions,
now known as the ERC. He has also won the Marie Curie Fellowship of the
European commission. He comes from a position as research associate at the
Université Libre de Bruxelles. His main research interests are Beyond Standard
Model Physics, Technicolor, Dark Matter, Neutron Stars, High density QCD, and
spin asymmetries. He has been productive with high impact research papers in
all fields of research he has worked on. In particular, he has made substantial
contributions while graduate student at MIT on matter in extreme conditions and in Denmark
on Dark Matter from Technicolor theories and their impact on astrophysical objects.
The centre has filled another assistant professor position in Lattice Field Theory for Beyond
Standard Model physics accepted by Claudio Pica.
Claudio Pica graduated from the worldly renowned Scuola Normale di Pisa in Italy. He has
held research positions at the Brookhaven National Laboratory in US and then
in the high energy group at Edinburgh in UK. Despite his young age, Pica has
been extremely productive with several top cited papers and he is a leading expert
in lattice field theory for models of Dynamical Electroweak Symmetry
breaking. His research interests besides Beyond Standard Model physics revolve
also around QCD in extreme conditions and mechanisms for confinement using
advanced numerical simulations running on the most advanced computational
platforms in the world. Pica has joined the centre in February 2010.
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