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Elena
Voss
German
Native
English
Fluent
(
C
2)
French
Working
(
B
2)
Italian
Basic
(
A
2)
PROFILE
Experimental
physicist
with
eight
years
of
experience
in
high
-
energy
collider
physics
at
the
LHC
.
Led
detector
commissioning
and
data
analysis
for
the
ATLAS
experiment
,
resulting
in
22
peer
-
reviewed
publications
.
Expertise
in
radiation
-
hard
detector
design
,
trigger
systems
,
and
large
-
scale
statistical
analysis
.
Passionate
about
translating
fundamental
research
methods
into
applied
sensing
technologies
.
EXPERIENCE
Postdoctoral
Researcher
CERN
,
Geneva
—
ATLAS
Collaboration
2021 –
present
Designed
and
deployed
a
radiation
-
tolerant
silicon
pixel
module
for
the
ATLAS
Inner
Tracker
upgrade
,
achieving
98%
hit
efficiency
at
5×10¹
⁵
n
_
eq
/
cm
²
fluence
.
Developed
a
graph
-
neural
-
network
-
based
track
trigger
algorithm
that
reduced
fake
track
rate
by
73%
at
constant
efficiency
,
now
part
of
the
Phase
-
II
trigger
upgrade
.
Led
the
data
quality
monitoring
shift
team
for
8
months
,
responsible
for
real
-
time
anomaly
detection
across
100
M
detector
channels
.
Coordinated
a
production
campaign
of
2,400
pixel
modules
across
12
institutes
,
delivering
6
weeks
ahead
of
schedule
.
PhD
Research
Fellow
Max
Planck
Institute
for
Physics
,
Munich
—
ATLAS
Collaboration
2016 – 2021
Performed
the
first
differential
cross
-
section
measurement
of
tWZ
production
at
√
s
= 13
TeV
using
139
fb
⁻
¹
of
LHC
data
,
achieving
5.2
σ
significance
.
Built
a
custom
fast
-
simulator
for
the
ATLAS
electromagnetic
calorimeter
(
CPU
time
reduced
by
factor
400)
enabling
large
-
scale
systematic
uncertainty
studies
.
Developed
a
Boosted
Decision
Tree
(
BDT
)
event
classifier
for
multi
-
lepton
final
states
,
improving
signal
significance
by
35%
over
cut
-
based
methods
.
Designed
and
tested
a
low
-
noise
front
-
end
ASIC
for
the
High
-
Granularity
Timing
Detector
;
noise
figure
below
0.5
fC
at
1
ns
shaping
time
.
Summer
Student
—
Detector
R
&
D
Fermi
National
Accelerator
Laboratory
,
Batavia
IL
Summer
2015
Characterized
silicon
photomultiplier
arrays
for
a
dual
-
phase
liquid
argon
TPC
prototype
;
achieved
single
-
photon
resolution
at
175
K
.
Built
a
LabVIEW
-
based
DAQ
for
a
64-
channel
PMT
readout
system
;
data
rate
of
2
GB
/
s
sustained
.
EDUCATION
PhD
in
Physics
Ludwig
Maximilian
University
of
Munich
2016 – 2021
EXPERIMENTAL
PHYSICIST
elena
.
voss
@
cern
.
ch
+41 22 767 34 81
CERN
, 1211
Geneva
23,
Switzerland
orcid
.
org
/0000-0002-1456-
8901
github
.
com
/
evoss
-
phys
SPECIALIZAT IO N
High
-
Energy
Physics
Detector
Physics
Data
Analysis
&
ML
Monte
Carlo
Simulations
T ECHNICAL
SKILLS
ROOT
,
Geant
4,
MadGraph
Python
,
C
++,
CUDA
TensorFlow
,
PyTorch
,
Scikit
-
learn
FPGA
firmware
(
VHDL
,
Verilog
)
LabVIEW
,
COMSOL
Multiphysics
Linux
,
HPC
,
SLURM
,
Docker
LANGUAGES
RESEARCH
INT EREST S
Beyond
Standard
Model
physics
,
dark
matter
direct
detection
,
liquid
argon
TPCs
,
silicon
pixel
detectors
,
real
-
time
data
triggering
,
anomaly
detection
with
graph
neural
networks
.
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Thesis
: "
Electroweak
Multi
-
Boson
Production
in
Proton
-
Proton
Collisions
at
the
ATLAS
Experiment
" —
summa
cum
laude
MSc
in
Physics
ETH
Zurich
2014 – 2016
Thesis
: "
Simulation
of
Charge
Transport
in
Radiation
-
Damaged
Silicon
Sensors
" —
GPA
5.6/6.0
BSc
in
Physics
University
of
Zurich
2011 – 2014
SELECTED
PUBLICATIONS
E
.
Voss
,
A
.
Kruse
,
M
.
Tanaka
et
al
.
"
Search
for
heavy
neutral
leptons
in
same
-
sign
dilepton
final
states
with
the
ATLAS
detector
."
J
.
High
Energ
.
Phys
. 07, 145 (2025).
E
.
Voss
,
L
.
Berger
,
S
.
Choi
et
al
.
"
Graph
neural
network
track
filtering
for
the
ATLAS
Phase
-
II
trigger
."
Nucl
.
Instrum
.
Methods
A
1075, 169342 (2025).
ATLAS
Collaboration
(
E
.
Voss
as
corresponding
author
).
"
Observation
of
tWZ
production
in
pp
collisions
at
√
s
= 13
TeV
."
Phys
.
Rev
.
Lett
. 132, 051801
(2024).
E
.
Voss
,
R
.
Patel
,
J
.
Kowalski
.
"
A
fast
simulation
framework
for
the
ATLAS
liquid
-
argon
calorimeter
using
generative
adversarial
networks
."
Comput
.
Softw
.
Big
Sci
. 7, 11 (2023).
ATLAS
Collaboration
(
E
.
Voss
editor
).
"
Performance
of
the
ATLAS
trigger
system
in
Run
3."
Eur
.
Phys
.
J
.
C
83, 729 (2023).
HONORS
&
AWARDS
2024
ATLAS
Outstanding
Achievement
Award
—
for
contributions
to
the
Inner
Tracker
upgrade
2022
CERN
Doctoral
Student
Grant
(
renewed
annually
through
2021)
2018
Max
Planck
Society
Fellowship
for
Early
-
Career
Researchers
2016
ETH
Medal
for
Outstanding
Master
'
s
Thesis
2014
German
Academic
Scholarship
Foundation
(
Studienstiftung
) —
full
graduate
funding
TEACHING
&
OUTREACH
Supervised
3
MSc
and
2
PhD
students
;
co
-
authored
4
papers
with
student
first
authors
.
Lecturer
for
"
Particle
Detector
Technologies
" —
LMU
Munich
,
WS
2023/24, 16
students
.
Organizer
of
CERN
'
s
"
Physics
for
Everyone
"
public
lecture
series
(2022–
2024),
reaching
3,800+
attendees
.
Developed
and
run
a
week
-
long
physics
bootcamp
for
30
incoming
PhD
students
(2023, 2024).
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