Austin Ball

Technical Coordinator, Compact Solenoid Experiment.

Principal Applied Physicist, CERN. EP Department, Bat. 40-5-A35, Esplanade de Particules,1, CH1211 Geneva 23, Switzerland. Tel (41) 22 767 1676, (41) 75 411 0408/9089 e-mail: Austin.Ball@.ch

Nationality: British and Irish passports.

CURRICULUM VITAE

CAPABILITIES

Over 10 years experience in the technical direction of a large, successful, international scientific research installation, The at CERN’s Large Collider.

Extensive project management, field-team coordination and team leadership experience in the construction, installation, commissioning, upgrade and exploitation for science of such facilities and their component parts.

Internationally recognised competence in assessing and advising complex scientific projects [recent reviewer of: Mega-Amp Spherical Tokamak Upgrade (MAST-U, Culham, UK), Deep Undergroound Neutrino Facility (DUNE, Fermilab USA) and review chair, for 3 consective years, for the European Spallation Source (ESS, Lund, Sweden) as well as for the High-Luminosity LHC Infrastructure project (CERN, Geneva, Switzerland)].

CAREER EVOLUTION

2007- present Technical Coordinator, Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) [at the (LHC), CERN, Geneva] Overall responsibility for: Safety of CMS personnel and equipment Technical operation and optimisation for science Upgrade programme technical oversight and execution Maintenanace and consolidation programme Experiment-Accelerator interface Host laboratory-Collaboration technical interface.

1999-2007 Deputy Technical Coordinator, Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) Project leader for: Lowering & underground assembly Surface test programme Detector systems engineering & integration oversight Group leader: CMX group, Physics Department, CERN.

1994 - 98 Run Coordinator, OPAL experiment, [at Large Collider (LEP), CERN, Geneva] Responsible for: Optimisation of experiment performance to deliver scientific programme Experiment-Accelerator interface Project Leader: Tile-Endcap upgrade project

1993-1994 Technical coordinator, Hadron Calorimeter (HCAL) subsystem, OPAL expt @ LEP, CERN, Geneva.

1991 - 93 Detector development/prototyping coordinator, forward muon system, Solenoidal Detector Collaboration [Superconducting Super Collider, then in construction, Dallas, USA]

1990 - 91 B physics analysis coordinator, OPAL experiment, LEP

1984 - 90 Technical project leader, HCAL subsystem, US OPAL project, [Maryland, USA]. Responsible for coordinating design, prototyping and construction of HCAL detector system

1979 - 84 Field coordination team & evcntual muon field coordinator, JADE experiment [Deutches Electron Synchrotron (DESY), Hamburg, Germany]. Responsible for muon system operation & maintenance.

EMPLOYMENT

2011 - present Principal Applied Physicist, EP department, CERN. 2005 - 2011 Senior Staff Physicist, PH department, CERN. 1999 - 2005 Staff physicist, PH Department, CERN. 1991 - 1999 Faculty Research Scientist, University of Maryland: attachment to CERN, Geneva, Switzerland, 94-99.

1988 - 1991 Assistant Research Scientist, University of Maryland, USA attachment to CERN, Geneva, Switzerland, 1989-90. 1984 - 1988 Faculty Research Associate, University of Maryland. 1979 - 1984 Research Associate, Univ. of Manchester, UK. on detachment to: DESY, Hamburg, Germany.

QUALIFICATIONS : Ph.D. (High Energy Physics), University of Manchester, UK, 1980. including 1 year attachment to CERN, Geneva, Switzerland.

Publications:

In summary:

74 publications on photoproduction detectors and physics from CERN Expt WA4.

326 publications on e+e- physics from the OPAL experiment at LEP.

2 publication on detector research for the Solenoidal Detector Collaboration and:

Approaching 1000 publications from CMS !!

From all of which, my favourites beyond doubt are:

Jinst, Volume3, August 2008

Phys Lett B. 716 (2012) 30

Apology: unfortunately, I could not seem to access my publications file from Bangkok.

I will provide it, if required, as soon as feasible!