Torsten Åkesson
| Torsten Åkesson | |
|---|---|
| Born |
November 7, 1954 Uppsala, Sweden |
| Nationality | Swedish |
| Fields | Physics |
| Institutions | University of Lund |
| Alma mater | University of Lund |
| Known for | CERN |
Torsten Åkesson (7 November 1954), is a Swedish physicist and professor in Particle physics at Lund University who is a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and has been the chairman of CERN.
Biography
Åkesson graduated from Österportskolan in Ystad was awarded his Master of Science in Engineering at Lund University. He became a Doctor of Philosophy in the field of physics at Lund University in 1986 with Guy von Dardel as his supervisor with a thesis about jets.[1] He contiuned with his research about jets in CERN. In 1996-2005 he also participated in the management team for the development of the international ATLAS experiment, which among other things was one of the two LHC experiments involved in the discovery of the Higgs boson in July 2012.[2] Between 2005-2006 he was Chairman of the European Committee on Future Accelerators, where he was responsible for developing a European strategy for particle physics. In 2007-2009 he was Chairman of the CERN Council, where one of his main goals was to start up their particle accelerator and start the experiments at Large Hadron Collider.[3]
Åkesson is elected as a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences,[4] and he has been the director of the Department of Physics at Lund University since 2012.
References
- ↑ Forkman, Bengt; Holmin Verdozzi, Kristina, eds. (2016). Fysik i Lund: i tid och rum (in Swedish). Lund: Fysiska institutionen i samarbete med Gidlunds förlag. p. 314. ISBN 9789178449729.
- ↑ "CERN experiments observe particle consistent with long-sought Higgs boson | Media and Press Relations". press.cern. Retrieved 2017-05-31.
- ↑ "Svensk professor leder CERN - Forska". forska.vr.se (in Swedish). 2008-04-14. Retrieved 2017-05-31.
- ↑ "Torsten Åkesson". Kungliga Vetenskapsakademien. Retrieved 2017-05-31.