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Alain BLONDEL<\/strong><\/p>\n Born 26 march1953 in Neuilly (92000 FRANCE), French citizen alain.blondel@cern.ch ORCID : 0000-0002-1597-8859<\/p>\n EDUCATION <\/p>\n <\/p>\n PROFESSIONAL CURRICULUM INSTITUTIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES APPROVED RESEARCH PROJECTS SUPERVISION OF GRADUATE STUDENTS AND POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWS TEACHING ACTIVITIES 2000-2008 Mechanics for physicists (1st year) ORGANISATION OF SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS (most significant ones, since 2006 only) COMMISSIONS OF TRUST SCIENTIFIC PRIZES: Breakthrough prize (2016) with the K2K and T2K collaborations for the discovery of neutrino <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Alain BLONDEL<\/strong><\/p>\n Born 26 march1953 in Neuilly (92000 FRANCE), French citizen alain.blondel@cern.ch ORCID : 0000-0002-1597-8859<\/p>\n EDUCATION <\/p>\n <\/p>\n PROFESSIONAL CURRICULUM
\nPersonal address: 590 rte d’Ornex, 01280 Pr\u00e9vessin, France. Tel. +33 (0)4 50 40 46 51
\nPrefessional address D\u00e9partement de Physique Nucl\u00e9aire et Corpusculaire
\nUniversit\u00e9 de Gen\u00e8ve Quai Ernest-Ansermet 24 CH-1205 Gen\u00e8ve 4<\/p>\n
\nEngineer Ecole Polytechnique Paris (X1972)
\nDEA in Nuclear Physics, University of Orsay (1975)
\n3d cycle Thesis, University of Orsay (1976)
\nPhD in Physics University of Orsay (1979)<\/p>\n
\n1975 Stagiaire Ecole Polytechnique (Palaiseau, France) (PhD student grant)
\n1977 Attach\u00e9 de Recherche au CNRS (Permanent position as junior researcher)
\n1980 Charg\u00e9 de Recherche au CNRS (Permanent position as senior researcher)
\n1983-1985-1989 Boursier CERN (CERN fellow) then Membre du Personnel CERN (CERN staff)
\n1989 \u2192 Directeur de Recherches au CNRS (Director of research group) (actuellement DR1)
\n1991 \u2192 2000 Ma\u00eetre de Conf\u00e9rences \u00e0 l’Ecole Polytechnique (Junior professor)
\n1995 Attach\u00e9 scientifique CERN (CERN scientific associate)
\n2000 Detach\u00e9 du CNRS, Professeur ordinaire \u00e0 l’Universit\u00e9 de Gen\u00e8ve (Full professor)
\nneutrino group leader<\/p>\n
\n2000 \u2013 Faculty Member, Facult\u00e9 des Sciences University of Geneva Country
\n2004 \u2013 2010 Chair of the teaching commission at the Physics Institute University of Geneva
\n2004 — 2012 Coordinator of doctoral studies University of Geneva
\n2004 Organizer of the \u201950 years of CERN\u2019 ceremony at University of Geneva
\n2005 Organizer of \u201cKids University\u201d at University of Geneva
\n2005 \u2013 2008 Organizer of the evening public lectures at the Physics Institute University of Geneva
\n(audience 300 persons)<\/p>\n
\nHARP at CERN (as co-spokesperson) Hadroproduction experiment
\nMICE: the International Muon Ionization Cooling Experiment. (as Spokesperson) approved in 2003
\nT2K experiment approved in 2003 (as leader of the Swiss collaborators)
\nNA61\/SHINE (collaboration board chair and leader of the neutrino activity) approved 2006 at CERN
\nBaby-MIND (as spokesperson) approved in 2015 at CERN<\/p>\n
\n1996 \u2013 2017 18 Master students
\n— PhD students: Aurelio Juste , Andrea Valassi, Eugeni Grauges, Simone Gilardoni, Cristina Morone,
\nGersende Prior, Silvia Borghi, Maximilien Fechner, Manuel Diaz, Raphael Schroeter, Rikard Sandstroem,
\nAhmed Ali Abdelalim, Nicolas Abgrall, Vassil Verguilov, Melody Ravonel, Sebastien Murphy, Ruslan
\nAsfandiyarov, Antoaneta Damianova, Leila Haegel, Fran\u00e7ois Drielsma, Lucie Maret, Saba Parsa.
\n— Postdocs : Francesca Mazzucato, Imma Riu, Mario Campanelli, Luca Malgeri, Edda Gschwendtner,
\nAnselmo Cervera, Arno Straessner, Bertrand Martin dit Latour, Jean-Sebastien Graulich, Marie di Marco,
\nFanny Dufour, Jeremy Argyriades, Andrea Ferrero, Gustav Wikstr\u00f6m, Alexander Korzenev, Yordan
\nKaradzhov, Etam Noah, Mark Rayner, Melody Ravonel, Davide Sgalaberna<\/p>\n
\nFrom 1991 till 2000 : Quantum Mechanics at Ecole Polytechnique Palaiseau France.
\nFrom 1996 till 1999 : Particle Physics at the DEA Orsay, France.
\nFrom 2000 \u2013 2018: Professor at the DPNC, Physics section, University of Geneva, Switzerland:<\/p>\n
\n2008-2011 Quantum Mechanics I
\n2004- Physique d\u2019aujourd\u2019hui (public lecture on neutrino physics)
\n2004- Chapitres choisis de Physique des particules (Master\u2019s course on neutrino physics)
\n2002- Students seminars (teaching a student to give a seminar)
\n2012- 1st year Physics for mathematicians, IT, chemists, biologists and environment scientists.<\/p>\n
\n1999-2017 NUFACT workshops: founding member and member of Scientific Program Committee (Yearly
\n100-200 participants). Chaired NUFACT11 at Geneva and NUFACT16 in Vietnam
\n2006 Member of the Preparatory group of the 1st European Strategy meeting, I co-organized the Orsay
\nsymposium (386 participants) and the Zeuthen strategy meeting (60 participants)
\n2009 Chair of European strategy for future neutrino physics at CERN 254 Participants
\n2012 Chair of European strategy for future neutrino oscillation physics CERN 159 part.
\n2015 program committee \u201cWorkshop for Neutrino Programs with facilities in Japan\u201d (100)
\n2012 – 2016 program committee for the ICFA beam dynamics workshop HF2012 (Chicago) \u2018Higgs
\nFactories: Linear vs Circular\u2019, then HF2014 (Beijing) eeFact2016 (Daresbury) (60 participants)
\n2012-2018 Organization of the TLEP-FCC-ee workshops (10 workshops typically 60 participants) and
\nVideo conferences (2 monthly)
\n2014 co-chair of \u2018FCC design study kick-off meeting\u2019 at University of Geneva (341 part.)
\n2015 Member of organizing committee of the FCC week in Washington (336 participants)
\n2016 Member of organizing committee of the FCC week in Rome (468 participants)
\n2016 Organizer of \u201cworkshop on neutrino near detectors based on gas TPCs\u201d, 8-9 Nov 2016 (72 part.)
\n2017 Chair of the organization of the first FCC physics week at CERN
\n2017 Member of organizing committee of the FCC week in Berlin (> 500 participants?)
\n2017 Organizing committee for the workshop
\n2018 Member of scientific committee for the conference \u2018History of the Neutrino\u2019 (Paris, 2018)
\n2018 Chair of FCC physics week at CERN<\/p>\n
\n2003 \u20132009 Member of CERN Scientific Policy Committee
\n2000-2012 Member of the PSI BVR review committee. Referee of the MEG experiment.
\n2006 — Member of the European Particle Physics Strategy Group
\n2009 — Reviewer for the Helmolz society, Germany
\n2010 \u2013 Reviewer for the Belgian Science Policy office BELSPO
\n2013 \u2013 Reviewer for ANR projects, FRANCE
\n2014 — Reviewer for ERC proposals
\n2004 \u2013 Nominations for the Nobel Prize in Physics
\n2000 — Referee for PRL, PRD, PRSTAB, JHEP, Nucl.Phys. B, NIM, Physics Letters, JINST, JHEP<\/p>\n
\nBronze Medal CNRS (1979) (given yearly to the best PhD thesis in Particle\/Nuclear physics for the
\nobservation of open charm in neutrino interactions)
\nPrize of the Thibaud Foundation, Acad\u00e9mie des Sciences, Arts et Belles Lettres de Lyon (1991),
\nfor the measurement of the number of neutrino species.
\nSilver Medal CNRS (1995) (given yearly for the best achievement in the field); for precision
\nmeasurements at LEP and the prediction of the top quark and Higgs boson mass
\nPaul Langevin Prize from the French Academy of Sciences (1996), for the work on polarized
\nbeams at LEP
\nManne Siegbahn Medal from the Royal Academy of Science in Sweden (1997), for the precision
\nmeasurements of the Z mass and width at LEP using resonant depolarization
\nPrize Jean Ricard by the French Physical Society (2004) (yearly, best achievement in Physics, for
\nprecision measurements at LEP and the prediction of the top quark and Higgs boson masses.
\nSuwa Prize (2013) with the T2K beam group for contribution to discovery of electron neutrino
\nappearance<\/p>\n
\noscillations<\/p>\n
\nPersonal address: 590 rte d’Ornex, 01280 Pr\u00e9vessin, France. Tel. +33 (0)4 50 40 46 51
\nPrefessional address D\u00e9partement de Physique Nucl\u00e9aire et Corpusculaire
\nUniversit\u00e9 de Gen\u00e8ve Quai Ernest-Ansermet 24 CH-1205 Gen\u00e8ve 4<\/p>\n
\nEngineer Ecole Polytechnique Paris (X1972)
\nDEA in Nuclear Physics, University of Orsay (1975)
\n3d cycle Thesis, University of Orsay (1976)
\nPhD in Physics University of Orsay (1979)<\/p>\n
\n1975 Stagiaire Ecole Polytechnique (Palaiseau,<\/p>\n