doc. Dr. Andre Sopczak
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André Sopczak is Associate Professor at the Czech Technical University (CTU) in Prague. After his studies at LMU Munich, he received his PhD from the University of California, San Diego in 1992, then worked as a CERN and DESY Fellow at the L3 experiment and subsequently as a research and teaching assistant at the University of Karlsruhe at the DELPHI experiment. After the LEP era at CERN, he worked in research and teaching as UK Lecturer at the D0 experiment at Fermilab and on future Linear Collider projects. In 2012 he moved to the Institute of Experimental and Applied Physics, CTU in Prague, focussing on the ATLAS experiment
At LEP, Tevatron and LHC he was involved in implementations, alignment and applications of silicon detectors. For a future Linear Collider he worked on CCD detectors in the Linear Collider Flavour Identification Collaboration. For the ATLAS detector he was leading the luminosity measurement with Medipix and Timepix detectors. His work has been instrumental in the search for axion-like particles using the ATLAS Forward Proton Detector. In recent years and in future research planning, the focus has been on the application of machine learning for analyses of ttH, tH, tbH+, HH and leptoquarks. This research utilises all components of the ATLAS detector for analyses with multi-lepton signatures and hadronic jets. He is also involved in outreach projects and the IEEE organisation.