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Rüdiger Voss |
Curriculum vitae
| Present position | Head of International Relations, European Organization for Nuclear Research CERN, Geneva, Switzerland |
| Address | CERN DG-IR Phone: +41 22 767 6447 |
| Born | 1951 in Bielefeld, Germany |
| Family status | Married, two children |
| Citizenship | German |
| Languages | Native speaker of German, fluent in English and French |
| University Education | |
| 1970-1976 | Studies of Physics and Mathematics at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (Munich, Germany) |
| 1976 | Diploma thesis on electron production in proton-proton collisions at the CERN-ISR |
| 1982 | Ph.D. (Dr. rer. nat.) from University of Munich with a thesis on electroweak interference in deep inelastic muon-nucleon scattering at the CERN-SPS |
| Professional career | |
| 1976-1987 | Post-doctoral researcher at the University of Munich. Main research activity: deep inelastic muon-nucleon scattering with the BCDMS (NA4) experiment at the CERN-SPS. |
| 1984-1986 | CERN Scientific Associate |
| 1984-1989 | Spokesperson for the BCDMS (NA4) Collaboration at CERN |
| 1987 | Indefinite appointment as Research Physicist at CERN. Senior Research Physicist since 1989. |
| 1988-1989 | CERN SPS Physics Co-ordinator |
| 1990-1997 | CERN Group Leader on the SMC (NA47) experiment. Research activity: deep inelastic muon scattering with polarised targets |
| 1991-1998 | Member of the ASCOT and ATLAS Collaborations. Research activity: design and development of the ATLAS detector at the LHC, specifically of the ATLAS muon spectrometer. |
| 1998-2001 | Deputy Division Leader, CERN Experimental Physics Division (now CERN Physics Department) |
| 2001-2008 | Group Leader, CERN-ATLAS Muon Spectrometer Group. Research activity: construction and commissioning of the ATLAS muon spectrometer. |
| 2009-2012 | Senior Physicist on the ATLAS Experiment at the LHC. Member of the CERN International Relations Office: Adviser for Non-Member State (NMS) Relations, |
| 2013- | Head of International Relations, CERN |
| Author or co-author of > 450 publications in refereed scientific journals | |
| Current or recent committee memberships | |
| 1994-2004 | Programme Advisory Committee for Particle Physics, JINR Dubna, Russia |
| 1998-2013 | CERN Scientific Information Policy Board (Chair 1999-2002) |
| 2001-2006 | Chair, Particle Data Group Advisory Committee, LBNL Berkeley, USA |
| 2001- | International Advisory Committee, Physics in Collision conference series |
| 2002-2006 | Komitee für Elementarteilchenphysik (KET) (Co-ordinating Committee for Particle Physics in Germany) |
| 2006-2012 | Gutachterausschuss für Hochenergiephysik des BMBF (Advisory Committee for High Energy Physics of the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research) |
| 2006 | Chair, Task Force on Open Access Publishing in Particle Physics |
| 2007-2013 | Chair, CERN Associates and Fellows Committee |
| 2007-2013 | Working Group 2: "Communication in Physics" of the International Union for Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP) |