Curriculum Vitae Freya Blekman - of Freya Blekman

Curriculum Vitae Freya Blekman
January 29, 2015
Personal Information
Work address Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Dienst ELEM
Pleinlaan 2
B-1050 Brussel
Belgium
Tel: +32 2 629 3211
Email: [email protected]
Academic Career
2015 – present Research professor at Vrije Universiteit Brussel (CMS experiment), ZAPBOF (head docent, tenured)
2013 – 2014 Research professor at Vrije Universiteit Brussel (CMS experiment), ZAPBOF (docent, tenured)
2010 – 2013 Research professor at Vrije Universiteit Brussel (CMS experiment), ZAPBOF (docent, untenured)
2007 – 2010 Research associate at Cornell University (CMS experiment)
2005 – 2007 Research associate at Imperial College London (CMS / D0 experiments)
2005 Research assistant at Nikhef (ATLAS experiment)
2000 – 2005 PhD experimental High Energy Physics at Nikhef / Universiteit van Amsterdam. Subject: top quark pair production in proton antiproton collisions (D0
experiment)
1993 - 2000 Diploma experimental physics at Universiteit van Amsterdam (LHCb experiment). Experimental work: LHCb outer tracker R&D
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Prizes
2011 FWO-Odysseus II grant.
2013 CMS-LPC fellowship awarded by the US Department of Energy and Fermi National
Accelerator Laboratory.
2013 Member of the CMS collaboration, winner of the European Physical Society High
Energy and Particle Physics prize 2013 .
Funding sources
• (2011 – 2016) Promotor FWO-Odysseus II Search for new physics at the Large
Hadron Collider.
• (2013) CMS LPC fellow
• (2013 – 2017) Co-promotor FWO Big Science: The CMS experiment at the Large
Hadron Collider at CERN - Het CMS experiment met de Large Hardon Collider
in het CERN.
• (2013 – 2016) Co-promotor FWO Experimentele verificatie van elektrozwakke
symmetrie breking met de Large Hadron Collider.
• (2012 – 2017) Interuniversity Attraction Poles (IAP) programme Fundamental
interactions: at the boundary of theory, phenomenology and experiment, BELSPO,
Belgian Federal Science Office.
Supervision
Doctoral students
• (2012 – 2016) Quentin Python, Search for displaced supersymmetry at the LHC
• (2013 – 2017) Lana Beck, Standard model four-top production at the LHC, in
shared PhD programme with University of Bristol
• (2013 – 2017) Dominic Smith, Search for gluino-mediated stop production in compressed spectra at the LHC, in shared PhD programme with University of Bristol
• (2014 – 2018) Douglas Burns, Precision tests of SM top quark physics, in shared
PhD programme with University of Bristol
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Undergraduate student supervision
• (2015) Wouter Luyten, Bachelors project Rediscovering the top quark at the LHC
Run 2 startup at sqrt(s)=13 TeV
• (2014) Jeremy Lombaerts, Bachelors project Search for a Higgs-like boson through
the H → ZZ → 4l process in pp collisions at sqrt(s) = 8 TeV
• (2013) Isis Van Parijs, Masters project Measurement of the single top tW associated production in the dilepton decay channel in proton collisions at a center of
mass energy of 8 TeV, published in Phys.Rev.Lett. 112 (2014) 231802.
Postdoctoral Researchers
• (2010 – 2012) Dr. Rebeca Gonzalez Suarez, PhD from Instituto de Fisica de
Cantabria (IFCA), Santander (Spain) , presently at University Nebraska at Lincoln
• (2010 – present) Dr. Petra Van Mulders, PhD from VUB, at VUB with FWO
postdoctoral fellowship and 10% ZAP mandate on CMS
• (2012 – present) Dr. James Keaveney, PhD from University College Dublin, at
VUB with FWO Marie Curie Pegasus postdoctoral fellowship
• (2013 – present) Dr. Natalie Heracleous, PhD from RTWH Aachen
Research Activities
• (2014) Leading work on phenomenological limits on scalar gluon production using LHC 8 TeV four top production cross section limits, in collaboration with
Universit´e Libre de Bruxelles and Universit´e de Strasbourg, in preparation
• (2014) Supervision of analysis for search for resonances in the tW spectrum (dilepton channel) in the LHC 8 TeV dataset, in collaboration with postdoctoral
researcher from National Taiwan University
• (2014) Co-leading the Beyond-Two-Generations resonances subgroup (ad interim
sub convener role in CMS B2G group, covering for 3 month parental leave).
• (2012 – 2014) Leading search for standard model four top production, examining
the LHC 8 TeV dataset for this standard model signal, to be published in JHEP.
• (2012 – 2014) Co-leading search for displaced supersymmetry, in collaboration
with Ohio State University, examining the LHC 8 TeV dataset for displaced supersymmetry signatures, submitted to Phys.Rev.Lett.
• (2012 – 2013) Leading sub-analysis in observation of single top tW associated
production, in collaboration with University of Nebraska, Lincoln and Kansas State
University, published in Phys.Rev.Lett. 112 (2014) 231802
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• (2012 – 2014) Co-leading the Beyond-Two-Generations searches group (convener
role, in Summer 2012 CMS created a physics group dedicated to new physics
searches in the top quark sector)
• (2012) Co-leading the Top-like Beyond the Standard Model searches subgroup
(sub convener role in CMS Exotica group)
• (2010 – 2012) CMS top quark physics group responsible for the quality of the
b-quark jet identification in CMS papers on top quark physics.
• (2010 – 2012) Leading analysis on search for single top tW associated production,
in collaboration with Kansas State University, published in Phys.Rev.Lett. 110
(2013) 022003
• (2009 – 2010) Leader of the effort to use secondary vertex b-quark tagging for very
early data in CMS top physics, working in the electron+jets+btag event topology,
published in PRD 84 (2011) 092004
• (2008 – 2009) Convenor CMS pixel offline software (also known as Detector
Performance Group). Responsible for an international team of 50 people working on offline and high-level trigger pixel reconstruction software, i.e. simulation,
digitization and reconstruction of pixel detector data, data quality monitoring,
databases and calibration, including cosmic ray studies, resulted in publications
such as JINST 5:T03007,2010
• (2007 – 2008) Author of missing transverse energy significance algorithm, a novel
approach that uses the compatibility with zero missing energy as a an additional
measurement in the reconstruction, thus increasing the discriminative power for
separating signal from background in events with missing transverse energy, as
published in JINST 6 (2011) 09001
• (2007 – 2008) Responsible for the CMS pixel databases including development,
maintenance and release management.
• (2007 – 2008) Author of the calibration software for the CMS pixel detector.
Author of the CMS pixel gain & pedestal database and the software that measures
the values of these for each separate (every 66 million) pixel
• (2007 – 2008) Developer in the CMS Physics Analysis Tools (PAT) group, focusing on documentation and analysis examples. My code was the basic skeleton
used by most CMS 7 TeV analyses
• (2007) Measurement tau jet energy scale using Z boson events, 2007 CMS computing challenge, published in J.Phys. G34 (2007) 995-1579
• (2005 – 2007) Responsible for the development and testing of Grid-based CMS
analysis at Imperial College. Author CMS reconstruction software tutorials for
UK CMS and reconstruction expert
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• (2002 – 2007) Author of measurement of the top quark pair production cross
section in the fully hadronic channel using 450 pb-1 of D0 data, published as Phys.
Rev. D 76, 072007 (2007)
• (2005) Silicon module electronics tests for the ATLAS -SCT end caps
• (2002 – 2005 Responsible for the development of D0 top quark physics triggers
in multijet events
• (2001 – 2003) D0 Tracker data acquisition and data quality monitoring expert
• (2000 – 2001) Participated in the commissioning of the D0 microstrip tracker,
including ex-situ operation of 10% of the subdetector (so-called 10% test)
• (1999) Development software for robot used for the CMS tracker module wire
bonding gantry system
• (1998 – 2000) Prototype testing for the LHCb outer tracker drift chambers
Committees and other Administration roles in the university
• (2014 – present, VUB faculty of Science and bio-engineering) Chair of Public
Relations council
• (2014, VUB+ULB hep-ex groups) Organiser of the invited seminars of the Interuniversity Institute for High Energies, the experimental (astro)particle physics
collaboration between ULB and VUB.
• (2014 – present, VUB physics department) Secretary Education committee (astro)physics Bachelor
• (2014 – present, VUB physics department) Coordinator (inter)national mobility
(astro)physics Master
• (2014 – present, VUB physics department) Secretary Education committee (astro)physics Master
• (2014 – present, VUB faculty of Science and bio-engineering) Member of PublicRelations council
• (2014 – present,VUB physics department) Public-Relations responsible
• (2010 – present,VUB physics department) Responsible for organisation physics
department during VUB open days
• (2012) Local organising committee for Belgian Physics Society general meeting
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• (2012, VUB+ULB hep-ex groups) Organiser of the invited seminars of the Interuniversity Institute for High Energies, the experimental (astro)particle physics
collaboration between ULB and VUB.
• (2011 – present, VUB+ULB hep-ex groups) : Responsible for the internal and
external web pages of the Interuniversity Institute for High Energies, the experimental (astro)particle physics collaboration between ULB and VUB.
• (2010 – 2011, VUB+ULB hep-ex groups) : Organiser internal student seminars IIHE, the Interuniversity Institute for High Energies, the experimental (astro)particle physics collaboration between ULB and VUB.
• (2010) Local organising committee CMS physics week (300 person conference).
Administrative roles outside the VUB
• Deputy team leader CMS group Vrije Universiteit Brussel
• Referee for European Physical Journal C
• (2014 – present) Member of the W&T2 panel (covering theoretical, computational and experimental physics, excluding astrophysics and the physics of materials), scientific and funding review panel of the Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek
(FWO, Flemish Funding agency)
• (2014 – present) Co-responsible for maintenance of the website of the Interuniversity Attractionpoles (IAP) programme Fundamental Interactions of the Belgian
Federal government BELSPO
• (2013 – present) VUB responsible of the Flemish Physics Olympiad
• (2011 – present) Co-coordinator of the WP3 Beyond the Standard Model of the
Interuniversity Attractionpoles (IAP) programme Fundamental Interactions of the
Belgian Federal government BELSPO.
• (2011 – present) Chair of over 5 editorial boards inside the CMS collaboration
(responsible for internal peer review)
• (2009 – present) Member of over 10 editorial boards inside the CMS collaboration
(responsible for internal peer review)
• (2009 – 2011) Member CMS Collaboration board advisory group (advisory think
tank of CMS collaboration)
• (2007 – 2009) Seat on CMS tracker Detector Performance Group steering committee.
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Teaching
• (2011 – present) Simulation of Physics Phenomena and Detectors in Modern
Physics (6 ESP) at Vrije Universiteit Brussel and Universiteit Gent Physics and
Astrophysics MA2 (optional course for hep-ex master students)
• (2012 – present) Nuclear measurement techniques (6 ESP) at Vrije Universiteit
Brussel and Universiteit Gent Biomedical Engineering MA2 (optional course)
• (2014 – present) Experimentele fysica (6 ESP) at Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Physics and Astrophysics BA1 (experimental laboratory techniques for physics
1st year students)
Outreach
• Substantial presence on new media such as twitter
• Regular presence (also much organisation behind the scenes) in CERN hangout
webcasts on YouTube
• Responsible for the Dutch language version of the CMS brochure and CMS contact
person for Dutch language outreach.
• Numerous newspaper and television interviews
• Popular science lectures on particle physics for the general public, at schools, open
days, high school student visits and for large companies such as Telenet (Belgian
branch of Alcatel-Lucent).
• USCMS and HIGGS blogger
• (2014) Organiser TEDxCERN outreach event in Brussels, one of 10 locations in
the world where the TEDxCERN could be remotely followed in real time.
• (2014 – present) Organiser CERN masterclasses for high school students at VUB
• (2010 – 2013) Physicist contact (via videoconferencing) during CERN masterclasses
• Organiser (bi) yearly VUB physics student outing to CERN
• Official CERN guide
• (2007 – 2012) Member of CMS outreach executive committee.
• (2007 – 2009) Science ambassador European Commission SET-Routes program
on gender issues
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