Dr. Olivier Schneider

Biography

Olivier Schneider specializes in elementary particle physics, focusing on heavy flavour physics and CP violation. He received his PhD in particle physics in 1989 from the University of Lausanne before joining the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory in California to work on the CDF experiment at the Tevatron Fermilab, where he was a research fellow supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation. He contributed to the construction and commissioning of the silicon vertex detector used in the discovery of the sixth quark, known as the 'top'. In 1994, he returned to Europe to participate in the ALEPH experiment at CERN's Large Electron-Positron Collider, eventually becoming a fellow and then scientific staff member at CERN. He became an associate professor at the University of Lausanne in 1998 and was appointed as a full professor at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in 2003. Schneider has significantly contributed to the preparation of the LHCb experiment at CERN's Large Hadron Collider, which began operations in 2009, as well as analyzing data from previous experiments like Belle in Japan. His research primarily investigates the decays of hadrons containing b quarks and explores CP violation symmetry in matter and antimatter.

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