Meet the team
Lund University, Lund, Sweden
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Lund University is Scandinavia’s largest institution for education and research and the highest-ranking university in Sweden. It was founded in 1666, and consists of 8 faculties and several research centres and institutes, hosting today 27,000 students and 7,000 еmployees. In SMARTHEP, LU is represented by a group of researchers from the Particle Physics division of the Department of Physics.
In the experimental particle physics division at Lund University we participate in the ATLAS and ALICE experiments at CERN, are involved in the planning and construction of the future LDMX experiment at SLAC, and are exploring opportunities for future fundamental physics at the ESS. In ALICE, the group studies the hot and dense matter produced in high-energy collisions of heavy ions, the quark-gluon plasma (QGP), and searches for QGP-like signals in proton-proton collisions as well. The ATLAS group searches for new phenomena such as dark matter and exotic Higgs bosons in proton-proton collisions at the LHC, and is involved in the large-scale computing efforts necessary for high-energy physics experiments. In both ALICE and ATLAS, we work on the construction, calibration, and upgrades of the particle tracking and identification hardware that makes such data analysis possible.
Lund University welcomes applicants with diverse backgrounds and experiences. We regard gender equality and diversity as a strength and an asset.
Main supervisor: Alice Ohlson
Alice Ohlson has been an associate senior lecturer at Lund University since May 2019 and a member of the ALICE Collaboration since 2013. Her research is in the area of heavy-ion physics where she studies the properties of the quark-gluon plasma through measurements of correlations and fluctuations of identified particles in lead-lead and proton-proton collisions at the LHC.
Co-supervisor: Oxana Smirnova
Oxana Smirnova is a senior lecturer at Lund University, and works there since 1997, starting as a researcher with the DELPHI experiment at CERN, and moving on to the ATLAS experiment in 2000. Her main focus is on ATLAS software and computing, and she currently holds a position of the ATLAS International Computing Board chair.
University of Helsinki, Finland
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The University of Helsinki is the oldest and largest institution of academic education in Finland. The university is an international scientific community of 40,000 students and researchers. In international university rankings, the University of Helsinki typically ranks among the top 100. Through the power of science, the University has contributed to society, education and welfare since 1640.
In SMARTHEP, Helsinki is represented via the CMS group at the Helsinki Institute of Physics (HIP). HIP is a physics research institute that is operated jointly by the several Finnish universities involved in theoretical physics and experimental subatomic physics, mostly in connection to activities at international accelerator laboratories such as CERN.
One focus of the CMS group at HIP is on the analysis of the LHC data, in particular on new physics searches (charged Higgs bosons, SUSY), precision measurements with jets (top mass, strong coupling constant) and vector boson scattering (VBS). These are supported by strong involvement in detector operations on reconstruction, jet energy corrections (JEC), and machine learning (ML) applications in HEP. In addition, the group is strongly involved in the Phase-2 upgrade of the CMS detector. The group participates in the upgrade of the Tracker pixel detector and in the construction of the new Minimum Ionizing Particle Timing Detector Endcap Timing Layer (MTD-ETL).
ESR main supervisor: Mikko Voutilainen
Mikko Voutilainen is associate professor in experimental high energy physics at the University of Helsinki, and works there since 2011. After research at the Tevatron at Fermilab (D0 experiment), he has worked at the CMS experiment since 2008. He is one of the leading experts for jet energy corrections, jet physics and quantum chromodynamics (QCD) research.
ESR co-supervisor: Henning Kirschenmann
Henning Kirschenmann is senior scientist at the Helsinki Institute of Physics, and works there since 2017. He has been involved in the CMS experiment since 2010, striving to thoroughly optimize detector performance in order to maximise physics reach, leveraging latest data analysis tools and machine learning techniques both in detector performance optimization and physics analysis. Currently, he is co-convener of the CMS physics object group for jets and MET (JetMET).
IBM, Paris, France
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Pierre Feillet
Pierre Feillet is currently Chief Architect for Business Automation, Decisioning & AI Acceleration, IBM France.
His main responsibility is to innovate in the use and adoption of AI and Big Data in Business Automation to provide out-of-the-box intelligent features and integration points to accelerate client digital transformation.
In addition Pierre drives the architecture of the IBM core Decisioning technology in multiple dimensions – a) combining deterministic rules with predictive models, b) deliver OOTB rule mining to ease the bootstrap of new automation projects from data, c) empowering business users with analytics and large scale simulations to validate their decision logic against production grade data and d) achieving higher level of performance to support massive and pervasive use of decisions everywhere including at the edge.
Bogdan Malaescu
Bogdan Malaescu is staff researcher at CNRS, based in the LPNHE laboratory at the Sorbonne University. His main areas of expertise include the Standard Model in particle physics, QCD, jet physics, statistics, inverse problems. He is currently Convener of the ATLAS Statistics Committee. He is former convener of the ATLAS Standard Model group, former convener of the “Jet energy scale and resolution” and “Jets and photons” subgroups in ATLAS, former convener of the ATLAS Statistics Forum.
Christian de Sainte Marie
Christian de Sainte Marie leads the Center for Advanced Studies in IBM France, and the IBM Research Paris-Saclay team. Rule induction is one of the main research subjects of the team, in particular exploring approaches that combine neural networks and symbolic approaches.
Main supervisor: Vladimir Vava Gligorov
Vava spent his student years being bothered by quantum nonlocality, but eventually discovered that not being able to do maths would prove less of a problem if he became an experimental physicist. Now he divides his time between thinking about the myriad contradictions in our theories of the microscopic and macroscopic universe, and building real-time analysis systems to help LHCb probe these contradictions to ever higher precisions. He is also involved in the International Masterclass programme, trying to make the next generation as excited about fundamental science as he is.
Sorbonne University and LPNHE (CNRS), Paris, France
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LPNHE/LIP6
The Laboratory for Nuclear and High-Energy Physics (LPNHE) and the Laboratory of Informatics Paris 6 (LIP6) are located within 100 metres of each other inside Sorbonne University’s Jussieu campus. They will act as your co-hosts during this PhD: your office will be in LPNHE but you will regularly meet and interact with LIP6 researchers.
LPNHE is a particle, astroparticle, and nuclear physics laboratory within the IN2P3 institute of CNRS, with around 110 researchers and support personnel. The laboratory participates in several world-wide experiments (ATLAS, LHCb, Auger, LSST, etc.), and local teams are formed around each experiment. The LHCb team, in which you will be embedded, consists of 7 tenured researchers, two electronics and two software engineers, as well as two postdoctoral researchers and five doctoral students. This “inverted pyramid” of teams principally staffed by tenured researchers is a feature of French research which distinguishes it from many other European countries, and means that doctoral students have a wealth of experience and mentoring to draw on beyond their direct thesis advisor.
The LPNHE laboratory is attached to the Sorbonne Universite, a mega-university born from the merger of Universite Pierre et Marie Curie and Sorbonne University , whose campuses are in the heart of Paris. Sorbonne University is a fully multidisciplinary research-intensive university with three faculties: Humanities and Social Sciences, Medicine and Sciences & Engineering. With more than 53 400 students (among 10 200 international students), 4400 doctoral students and 6300 researchers, Sorbonne University is one of the leading French universities. The university is involved in numerous European and International partnership agreements and has France’s largest scientific library and infrastructures bringing together the best talent in a wide array of these disciplines. With 8,500 publications per year (approx. 10% of all publications in France), Sorbonne University is a major player in international knowledge and innovation economy, offering transversal academic and research programs.
LIP6, Sorbonne University and French National Center for Scientific Research, is a computer science research institute dedicated to the modeling and the resolution of fundamental problems driven by applications, as well as to the implementation and the validation through academic and industrial partnerships. LIP6 has four principal research axes:
- Artificial intelligence and data science (AID)
- Architecture, Systems, and Network (ASN)
- Safety, security and reliability (SSR)
- Theory and mathematics of computing (TMC)
The LIP6 lab hosts a large computing cluster, with both x86 and non-x86 (GPU/FPGA/hybrid) architectures, which the researchers can use in their work. The lab also has extensive facilities for designing new computing architectures, with dedicated support from a team of full-time experienced engineers for the work of researchers. Further computing resources including personal cloud storage are available, and access to all relevant scientific literature is provided.
Bogdan Malaescu
Bogdan Malaescu is staff researcher at CNRS, based in the LPNHE laboratory at the Sorbonne University. His main areas of expertise include the Standard Model in particle physics, QCD, jet physics, statistics, inverse problems. He is currently Convener of the ATLAS Statistics Committee. He is former convener of the ATLAS Standard Model group, former convener of the “Jet energy scale and resolution” and “Jets and photons” subgroups in ATLAS, former convener of the ATLAS Statistics Forum.
Main supervisor: Vladimir Vava Gligorov
Vava spent his student years being bothered by quantum nonlocality, but eventually discovered that not being able to do maths would prove less of a problem if he became an experimental physicist. Now he divides his time between thinking about the myriad contradictions in our theories of the microscopic and macroscopic universe, and building real-time analysis systems to help LHCb probe these contradictions to ever higher precisions. He is also involved in the International Masterclass programme, trying to make the next generation as excited about fundamental science as he is.
University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
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The University of Geneva was created in 1559 as a theological seminary, and became a fully secular university in 1873. It is the third largest university in Switzerland, and is very international in nature, with a considerable fraction of its students (more than ⅓) coming from other countries. In SMARTHEP, the University of Geneva is represented by researchers from the department of particle and nuclear physics (DPNC).
The DPNC is a member of the ATLAS Experiment at CERN, in addition to several other particle physics experiments around the world and in space. The DPNC has made significant contributions across a wide range of ATLAS activities, including detector construction and operation, triggering, software, reconstruction, and data analysis. Details of the current department activities and interests can be found on the DPNC website.
The University of Geneva welcomes applicants from a diverse range of backgrounds and experiences.
Main supervisor: Anna Sfyrla
Anna Sfyrla is a high energy physicist and associate professor at the University of Geneva. She works at the ATLAS and FASER experiments of the CERN LHC. She searches for physics beyond the Standard Model, focusing on hadronic final states, and aspects related to reconstruction and trigger. Besides her research, she is engaged in actions related to education, outreach and promotion of equal opportunities in academia.
Steven Schramm
Steven Schramm is an assistant professor at the University of Geneva’s department of particle and nuclear physics (DPNC). He has been with the DPNC since 2015, and a member of the ATLAS Collaboration since 2010. Steven’s research focuses on hadronic physics, with an emphasis on “jets”, as well as machine learning, triggering, software, and searches for new physics.
CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
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CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, is an intergovernmental organization with 23 Member States. Its seat is in Geneva but its premises are located on both sides of the French-Swiss border. CERN’s mission is to enable international collaboration in the field of high-energy particle physics research and to this end it designs, builds and operates particle accelerators and the associated experimental areas. At present, more than 10 000 scientific users from research institutes all over the world are using CERN’s installations for their experiments. Further information is available on the CERN website
CERN hosts the largest and most powerful particle accelerator in the world, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) together with its four main experiments: ALICE, ATLAS, CMS and LHCb. This unique research facility has been providing high energy particle collisions since 2009. It is used to study a wide range of aspects of fundamental particle physics which for instance lead to the discovery of the Higgs boson in 2012. The LHC will continue to be on the forefront of high energy physics for the next two decades by implementing upgrades to the accelerator and experiments facilitating ever higher collision rates and energies. This will require the development and deployment of new and innovative technologies for handling the unprecedented data rates generated (more than 100 Exabytes per year) in real time to achieve the optimal physics performance. CERN researchers from all four experiments are part of SMARTHEP.
Main supervisor: Brian Petersen
Brian Petersen has been a CERN staff scientist since 2007. His main research interest is the search for physics beyond the Standard Model. He is a member of the ATLAS and FASER LHC experiments and has been the coordinator of both the ATLAS trigger group and the ATLAS upgrade physics group.
Since 2018 he is the LHC Programme Coordinator where he is responsible for optimising the efficiency of the data collection for the LHC physics programme and its scientific output.
Co-supervisor: Maurizio Pierini
Maurizio Pierini is the coordinator of the Physics Performances and Dataset (PPD) area in CMS, and the initiator of real-time analysis (Data Scouting) in CMS. He leads the ML4HEP Team and works in collaboration with Zenuity. He is a CERN staff scientist, and a LPC Distinguished Researcher of the Fermilab Physics Center.
NIKHEF and VU Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
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VU Amsterdam and Nikhef.
The successful candidate will be hosted at Nikhef, the dutch National Institute for Subatomic Physics, which is a collaboration of six dutch Universities, and the NWO-I research foundation. The mission of Nikhef is to study the interactions and structure of all elementary particles and fields at the smallest distance scale and the highest attainable energy.Nikhef coordinates and leads the Dutch experimental activities in these fields. The research at Nikhef relies on the development of innovative technologies. The knowledge and technology transfer to third parties, i.e., industry, civil society and general public, is an integral part of Nikhef’s mission.
The group is strongly involved in many areas of LHCb, including the study of rare beauty decays and CP violation. The group plays a major role in the upgrades to the tracking detectors and trigger.
Main supervisor: Gerhard Raven
Gerhard Raven is a professor of experimental particle physics at VU Amsterdam. University. Most of his career was focussed on the search for new phenomena in the weak interaction, with a special focus on CP violation and rare processes.
TU Dortmund, Dortmund, Germany
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TU Dortmund University
TU Dortmund University has a strong focus on research. The university’s disciplines, e.g. mechanical engineering with its emphasis on production and logistics, physics, biochemical- and chemical engineering, statistics and computer science, as well as education research, are well known for their outstanding research achievements both nationally and internationally.
Students at TU Dortmund University can choose from classical subjects and innovative courses of study such as medical physics or degree programs in spatial planning, statistics and journalism. The department of computer science has a strong school of machine learning, with one of four German centres for artificial intelligence (Lamarr institute).
TU Dortmund University attaches great importance to social and sustainable development – values to which it is strongly committed. As one of the largest employers in Dortmund, the university promotes the development and health of its members and supports good working conditions and equal opportunities.
Faculty of Physics Website
The Department of Physics combines excellent research in four main areas with a modern and future-oriented teaching concept. In addition to the classic Bachelor Physics and Master Physics programs, the department offers a Bachelor’s and Master’s program in Medical Physics. The department also offers the only international MAster’s program in particle physics (as joint degree with Bologna and Clermont-Ferrand).
In research, the faculty has a focus on particle- and solid-state physics. Additional research areas include accelerator physics, with the Dortmund Electron Storage Ring DELTA and the Center for Synchrotron Radiation as major facilities. Since 2015, the department has been expanding its interdisciplinary focus on medical physics. The Department of Physics is strongly committed to the promotion of its students and scientific staff. In addition to a catalogue of very concrete support measures, the department facilitates international exchange, e.g. within the framework of Erasmus or through the existing scientific networks.
The Dortmund Particle Physics and LHCb group
The successful candidate will work with the LHCb group at TU Dortmund University. The group is led by Johannes Albrecht and comprises more than 20 members, with three academic members of staff, and around eight research staff and fifteen PhD students. The group is strongly involved in many areas of LHCb, including the study of rare beauty decays and CP violation. The group also plays a major role in the LHCb trigger, as well as in upgrades to the tracking detectors and trigger. Close collaborations exist to the department of Computer Science, the group is associated to the Lamarr-Institute (German centre for artificial intelligence) and participates two collaborative research centres: CRC876 “Providing Information by Resource-Constrained Data” and CRC1491 “Cosmic Interacting Matters”.
The Dortmund High-Energy Physics group is also involved in ATLAS and astro-particle physics (Ice-Cube, Magic, CTA/LST and others). It has a strong theory group with a focus on beyond Standard Model physics of charm and beauty quarks.
Main supervisor: Johannes Albrecht
Johannes Albrecht is a professor of particle physics at TU Dortmund University. Most of his career was focussed on the search for new phenomena in rare, leptonic and semileptonic beauty decays and on the development of novel trigger systems. Both are ideally pursued at CERN’s LHCb experiment. He has been funded by several major German (Emmy-Noether, Heisenberg) and EU (ERC StG PRECISION) grants, is principal investigator of two special research areas and an associated member of the newly founded Lamarr-AI institute.
University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
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Heidelberg University was established in 1386 and is the oldest university in Germany. It has twelve faculties with a total of more than 30,000 students. The Department of Physics and Astronomy is the largest physics department in Germany with more than 400 new incoming students and more than 150 PhD degrees per year. It follows the idea of teaching rooted in research and sees its research programme at the borders of knowledge as a prerequisite for teaching and training its students at high quality.
The Physikalisches Institut (PI), performs research in the areas of classic complex systems, quantum systems, heavy ion physics, atomic physics as well as in fundamental particle physics. The LHCb physics group members at PI have their own computing farms with about 800 nodes and more than a Petabyte of disk space for fast local data analysis. The farms are connected to the Worldwide HEP grid network as well as to the German national analysis facility (NAF) with several thousands computing cores and Petabytes of disk space.
Heidelberg University is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes applications from women. Handicapped applicants will be preferentially treated, if equally qualified.
Stephanie Hansmann-Menzemer
Stephanie started her career in particle physics on a reactor neutrino physics experiment in Grenoble/France and then joined for her PhD at Karlsruhe/Germany the CDF Collaboration at the Tevatron. She took part in the discovery of the Bs-Bs-bar oscillation at CDF as a postdoc at MIT (USA) and at Cantabria University (Spain). She decided to stay in flavour physics and joined LHCb and Heidelberg University in 2006. In 2014 she became a full professor.
Since then her main work is pattern recognition, trigger software and flavour physics analysis at LHCb. In 2018 she joined the future direct Dark Matter experiment DARWIN.
Martino Borsato
Martino started his journey through particle physics and Europe when he left his home country (Italy) for an Erasmus in France. He stayed in France for a PhD, but the experiment he was contributing to building was soon cancelled. He then joined the fantastic LHCb collaboration and never left. After three years in Santiago de Compostela and CERN, he is now part of the Heidelberg LHCb group, where he leads his research as a junior group leader. Currently, his focus consists of the search for dark sector particles and the study of rare decays of beauty quarks.
Verizon Connect Italy, Florence
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Verizon Connect operates in the field of Connected Vehicles, providing SaaS management solutions for fleets of commercial vehicles and assets. By fitting their fleet with Verizon Connect solutions, our customers achieve safer driving, reduced fuel used and increased productivity. The Italian branch of Verizon Connect includes a sales and R&D office in Ferrara and a research center in Florence, where the ESR will be hosted. UNIBO is the second largest university in Italy and one of the most active in research and technology transfer. It stands among the most important institutions of higher education in the EU with 87,000 enrolled students and 1,606 PhDs. At UNIBO, the ESR will be hosted within the Computer Vision lab (CVLab), which is a research laboratory active in the field of computer vision for more than 20 years.
Main supervisor: Francesco Sambo
Francesco Sambo is Chief Scientist at Verizon Connect, where he leads internal AI/ML research and external collaborations with academia. His main research interest is the extraction of advanced road scene semantics from video and sensor data generated by connected vehicles.
Co-supervisor: Leonardo TaccariUniversity of Manchester, Manchester, UK
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The University of Manchester
Manchester’s mission is to be a world leader in the quality of higher education offered, the excellence and impact of the research undertaken and the value of the contributions made to the economic, social and cultural life and environmental sustainability of the wider society. It is currently ranked 40th in the Jiao Tong Academic Ranking of World Universities.
The University has four faculties, twenty academic schools and hundreds of specialist research groups undertaking pioneering multi-disciplinary teaching and research of worldwide significance. More than 5500 academic and research staff, and a further 5000 support staff spearhead the research and teaching activity in the university. Manchester has the largest student community in the UK, with more than 28000 undergraduates and 11000 postgraduates attracted by the high international standing of the academic staff, by the superb research and teaching facilities, and by the cultural assets both of the university and the city of Manchester itself.
The University of Manchester strives to make our community a welcoming, caring and enthusiastic one, fuelling ambition with opportunities and support to help us all achieve our personal and professional goals.
Our diverse job opportunities include an attractive benefits package with family-friendly policies that provide for flexible working. We care deeply about career and personal development, offering a structured induction programme for new staff, an annual performance and development review, staff training for all career stages and mentoring opportunities to support your career development. We have a genuine commitment to equality of opportunity for our staff and students, which is also reflected in the ATLAS group.
School for Physics and Astronomy
The School of Physics and Astronomy is one of the largest and most active in Britain with 80 academic staff, 70 postdoctoral research associates, 820 undergraduate/postgraduate students and 180 research/support staff. A tradition of excellence has been established by many eminent teachers and research workers, including eleven Nobel Prize winners, such as Rutherford, Bohr, Bragg and Blackett, and most recently Andre Geim and Kostya Novoselov, who were awarded the honour in 2010 for their pioneering work on graphene. The School is also very active in public engagement, with Professors Tim O’Brien, Brian Cox and Jeff Forshaw featuring regularly in the scientific and popular media. Manchester is the only UK Physics department to be both in the top five for the volume of world-leading and internationally excellent research, and to have the maximum rating for teaching and student support, and is currently ranked 16th in the subject- specific Jiao Tong Academic Ranking of World Universities.
The Manchester Particle Physics and ATLAS group
The successful candidate will work with the ATLAS group at The University of Manchester. The Manchester ATLAS group comprises more than 30 members, with six academic members of staff, and around ten research staff and fifteen PhD students. The Manchester group is strongly involved in many areas of ATLAS, including the study of events containing Higgs, W, and Z bosons, and top quarks, as well as searches for new phenomena. Manchester has also major roles in the ATLAS trigger, as well as in upgrades to the tracking detectors and trigger.
The Manchester High-Energy Physics group is one of the largest UK particle physics groups and is also involved in the ATLAS, BESIII, SuperNEMO, DarkSide, DUNE, g-2, MicroBooNE, Mu2e, and SBND experiments. It has a strong theory group with involvement in QCD, BSM, particle cosmology and quark flavour phenomenology.
Main supervisor: Caterina Doglioni
Caterina Doglioni is a professor of particle physics at the University of Manchester (UK), with a joint appointment at Lund University (Sweden). Throughout her career, she has been driven by finding out more about the constituents of matter as well as by the challenges related to the “big science” needed to study them. The Large Hadron Collider is the perfect scientific environment to combine the two: with her group and colleagues she works on the challenges that a data-rich research environment presents for discoveries of rare processes at ATLAS (more information about dark matter at ATLAS). She has been funded by the European Research Council, first through the DARKJETS ERC Starting Grant, and currently through the REALDARK ERC consolidator grant. She will co-supervise this ESR project together with trigger and tracking expert Jiri Masik at the University of Manchester.
Collaborator: Maurizio Pierini
Maurizio Pierini is a particle physicist working on the CMS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. He currently holds an ERC Consolidator Grant for a project that aims to use Deep Learning solutions to address particle physics problems.
Project Manager: Andrew Carey
Andrew is based at the University of Manchester and is responsible for the operational management of the SMARTHEP programme, including reporting and financial monitoring. He is the main point of contact for all partners and advisory panels as well as the funder, the European Union. He also manages other donor-funded projects on behalf of other Higher Education Institutions.
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Ximantis, Sweden
Ximantis is a Swedish traffic forecasting company founded in 2014 and is part of the Lund University Innovation System. Ximantis produces forecasts of upcoming traffic congestion in real time thus allowing users to avoid them. The forecasting capabilities of Ximantis have been repeatedly tested and validated on different occasions in real traffic with data provided by the Federal Traffic Safety Administration of the USA. It has been shown to be capable of producing detailed traffic evolution and congestion information at specific, chosen, road locations and specific future times. This capability allows for significant savings in time and energy resources. Given the huge impact of traffic in CO2 emissions and other harmful particulates as well as the waste of precious energy resources due to congestion, the environmental benefits proposed by the Ximantis forecasting provide clear incentives for this technology.
Alexandros Sopasakis
Dr.Alexandros Sopasakis,since 2011 holds a tenured position at Lund University where he also received his Lecturer qualification. A. Sopasakis received two National Science Foundation (NSF) grants as main PI and several grants in the USA and Sweden as co-researcher. Because of his diverse profile in research, Dr. Sopasakis has been able to work in many areas including descriptions of micromagnetic behavior, planetary weather prediction, multiscale particle interactions and traffic flow evolution. He is the CEO and Founder of Ximantis.
University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
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Verizon Connect operates in the field of Connected Vehicles, providing SaaS management solutions for fleets of commercial vehicles and assets. By fitting their fleet with Verizon Connect solutions, our customers achieve safer driving, reduced fuel used and increased productivity. The Italian branch of Verizon Connect includes a sales and R&D office in Ferrara and a research center in Florence, where the ESR will be hosted. UNIBO is the second largest university in Italy and one of the most active in research and technology transfer. It stands among the most important institutions of higher education in the EU with 87,000 enrolled students and 1,606 PhDs. At UNIBO, the ESR will be hosted within the Computer Vision lab (CVLab), which is a research laboratory active in the field of computer vision for more than 20 years.
Co-supervisor: Samuele Salti
Samuele Salti is currently associate professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering (DISI) of the University of Bologna, Italy.
His main research interest is computer vision, in particular 3D computer vision, and machine/deep learning applied to computer vision problems. He co-founded the spin-off eyecan.ai.
IGFAE, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Collaborator: Diego Martinez Santos (Santiago de Compostela (IGFAE))
Diego Martinez Santos is a particle physicist working on the LHCb experiment at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. He was holding an ERC Starting Grant for a project in Kaon physics at LHCb and is an expert in GPU programming.
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