Günther Dissertori (born 1969) is an Italian physicist, scientist, professor for particle physics and rector at

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Life

Günther Dissertori grew up in Algund, a village in

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. He studied physics at the

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and worked as a doctoral student at

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, where he began his research career. There, he worked with the ALEPH particle detector at the

Large Electron–Positron Collider The Large Electron–Positron Collider (LEP) was one of the largest particle accelerators ever constructed. It was built at CERN, a multi-national centre for research in nuclear and particle physics near Geneva, Switzerland. LEP collided electr ...

(LEP) on studies of strong interactions, which was the subject of his doctoral thesis in 1997. He continued working at CERN as CERN Fellow and then as member of its Research Staff. Together with ETH colleagues, Dissertori helped to set up the

CMS CMS may refer to: Computing * Call management system * CMS-2, a programming language implemented for and used by the United States Navy * Code Morphing Software, a technology used by Transmeta * Collection management system for a museum coll ...

experiment at the

Large Hadron Collider The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the world's largest and highest-energy particle accelerator. It was built by the CERN, European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) between 1998 and 2008, in collaboration with over 10,000 scientists, ...

(LHC) of CERN. These experiments allowed to prove the existence of the

Higgs boson The Higgs boson, sometimes called the Higgs particle, is an elementary particle in the Standard Model of particle physics produced by the excited state, quantum excitation of the Higgs field, one of the field (physics), fields in particl ...

. With his group, Dissertori also developed new

Positron emission tomography Positron emission tomography (PET) is a functional imaging technique that uses radioactive substances known as radiotracers to visualize and measure changes in metabolic processes, and in other physiological activities including blood flow, r ...

(PET) devices. A cost-efficient brain PET scanner resulted from this work.''Professor Dissertori.''
dissertori-group.ethz.ch. Retrieved 2022-04-09 In 2001, he started teaching as assistant professor at ETH Zurich. His promotion to full professor for particle physics occurred in 2007. Dissertori received the ''Golden Owl Award'' for best teaching, bestowed by his students, in 2005, 2009, 2015 and 2020. In addition, he was honored by the ''

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Award for best teaching'' at ETH in 2013. In February 2022, Günther Dissertori was elected as Rector of ETH Zurich.''Organization: Rector.''
ethz.ch. Retrieved 2022-04-09

Selected publications

''Author Günther Dissertori.''
ETH Library. Retrieved 2022-04-09.

Memberships

* Fellow American Physical Society since 2016

References

External links

''Gibt es Aliens? Interview mit Günther Dissertori.''
(German). In: ''

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am Sonntag'', 6 February 2022. Retrieved 2022-04-09.
''Den Ausschluss Russlands muss das Cern erst noch verkraften.''
(German). In: ''

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Tagesgespräch'', 03 Oktober 2024. {{DEFAULTSORT:Dissertori, Günther 1969 births Living people Italian physicists ETH Zurich alumni Academic staff of ETH Zurich Fellows of the American Physical Society People associated with CERN