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Prof. Dr. Peter Krizan Slovenska verzija

Date and place of birth: 21.5.1958, Maribor, Slovenia
Status: married, wife Janka, daughter Alenka
Nationality: Slovenian
Addresses:
Department of Physics, Faculty of mathematics and physics, University of Ljubljana, Jadranska 19, SI-1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
J. Stefan Institute, F9, Jamova 39, SI-1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
Home: Lepi pot 14c, SI-1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
e-mail: peter.krizan@ijs.si

Degrees

B.Sc. in Physics at University of Ljubljana, 1980: Subject of the thesis:Influence of adsorption upon sound reflection.
M.Sc. in Physics at University of Ljubljana, 1984: Subject of the thesis: Track finding and analysis in the reaction pi^- p -> pi pi N.
Ph.D. in Physics at University of Ljubljana, 1987: Subject of the thesis: Two-pion interaction from the measurement of the reaction pi⁺ p -> pi⁺ pi⁺ n, (published paper).

Field of Research

Experimental High Energy Physics, Detector development

Period: 1979-87

Field: Experimental low-energy pion-pion scattering, CP violation

Place: J.Stefan Institute, Ljubljana and CERN, Geneva (OMICRON Collaboration), stays at Rutherford and Appleton Laboratory and University of Oxford, Nuclear Physics Lab., UK.

Period: 1987 ->

Field: ARGUS experiment: ARGUS collaboration took data until 1993 at the DORIS collider.

Place: J.Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, and DESY, Hamburg.

Period: 1990 ->

Field: Detector development: development of photon detectors and electronics for ring imaging Cerenkov (RICH) counters: HERA-B RICH and a novel type of proximity focusing RICH counter for Belle with aerogel as radiator.

Place: J.Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, DESY, Hamburg, KEK, Tsukuba.

Period: 1992 ->

Field: HERA-B experiment at the HERA proton ring at DESY: measure rare processes in systems of D and B mesons.

Place: J.Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, and DESY, Hamburg.

Period: 2001 ->

Field: Belle experiment, vertex detector R+D, preparation of a particle identification system upgrade, measurements of CKM matrix elements, rare decays, D0 mixing, time dependent CP violation measurements.

Place: J.Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, and KEK laboratory, Tsukuba.

Period: 2006 ->

Field: Research and development of novel detectors for medical imaging

Place: J.Stefan Institute, Ljubljana.

Period: 2008 ->

Field: Belle-II experiment, prepapration of precision measurements of rare processes in B, D and tau decays.

Place: KEK laboratory, Tsukuba.

Published papers, qspires format

Recent reports, talks

Books (coeditor, editor)

Proceedings of the Third Biennial Conference on Low-Energy Antiproton Physics, LEAP 94, Bled, Slovenia, September 12-17, 1994, World Scientific, Singapore, coeditor with M. Mikuz and G. Kernel.
Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on B-Physics at Hadron Machines, BEAUTY'99, Bled, Slovenia, June 21-25, 1999, Nucl. Instrum. Meth. A446, Vol 1-2, coeditor with S. Erhan (UCLA) and T. Lohse (Humboldt U., Berlin).

Teaching

Various courses at the University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Natural Sciencies and Technology and Faculty of Mathematics and Physics.

Seminar for postgraduate students
Lab 4
Particle and nuclear physics for undergraduates
Experimental particle and nuclear physics for postgraduates
Modern physics (for undergraduate students of mathematics)
Other materail for courses is available here.

Preparation of postgraduates studies in Medical physics.

A course on CP violation and B physics at the University of Barcelona (May 2005).

A course on Flavor Physics at B-factories and Hadron Colliders at the University of Tokyo (June 2006).

Short courses at summer schools, conferences

Heavy flavours at HERA-B and Tevatron, Scottish Universities Summer School 2001, write-up published: in C.T.H. Davies and S.M. Playfer (editors), Heavy flavour physics, Institute of Physics Publishing, Bristol (2002).
Short course Particle identification, prepared for the IEEE/NSS Lyon 2000.
Lecture Single photon detection, short course organizer F. Sauli, prepared for the IEEE/NSS Toronto 1998.
Lab courses on ring imaging Cherenkov counters, ICFA Instrumentation schools Istambul 1999, Capetown 2001, Rio 2003.
Lecture course Physics at B factories, at the Bad Liebenzell 2008 Workshop, October 2008.
Lecture course Experimental particle physics at the Nagoya Winter School, Ise-Shima, Japan, February 2009.

Popular talks (in Slovenian): List of selected talks, Where did anti-matter go?
Public lecture for the Slovenian parlament, March 30, 2009 in the framework of the project Znanje žanje, video of the lecture (170MB) .

Popular articles: Science, July 2008, Mladina, September 2008 (in Slovenian, 1, 2)

Supervisor of B.Sc., M.Sc. and Ph.D. students.

Looking for a thesis topic, seminar, summer student work?

Employment, Positions and Appointments

University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia: from 1980 to 1991, assistant, Faculty for Natural Sciences and Technology, Department for Physics
from 1992 to 1997, assistant professor, Faculty for Natural Sciences and Technology, Department for Physics
1997 to 2002, associate professor, Faculty for Mathematics and Physics, Department for Physics.
from 2002, professor, Faculty for Mathematics and Physics, Department for Physics.
2001-2003 Deputy head of the Department of Physics.
2003-2005 Head of the Department of Physics, vice-dean of the Faculty of mathematics and physics
J.Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia: from 1982 to 1987, postgraduate researcher (part time)
from 1987, research position (part time)
Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY), Hamburg.: 1989-90 Alexander von Humboldt Fellow; 1998 Alexander von Humboldt Fellow - Follow-up; 1992-2000 HERA-B experiment: RICH subsystem co-coordinator and Heavy Flavour Working Group co-coordinator
KEK, Tsukuba, Japan.: 2002- Belle experiment: member of the Executive board; 2008-2009 Belle-II: chair of the Interim Steering Committee and technical co-coordinator; 2008- Belle-II: spokesperson of the collaboration
Journal of Instrumentation (JINST): from 2006 editor, 2007-2008 assistant director.

Awards

2002 Zois distinction, photo, avi presentation
2008 Zois award

Committees

Member of the international advisory committee of the RICH conference series (2003->).
Member of the ICFA (International Committee for Future Accelerators) Instrumentation Panel (2005->).

Journal committees

Journal of Instrumentation (JINST), member of the editorial board, assistant director (2007-2008)

Conference Committees

Member of the Local Organizing Committee of the Third Biennial Conference on Low-Energy Antiproton Physics, LEAP 94, Bled, Slovenia, September 12-17, 1994.
Director of the ICFA 95 School, Instrumentation in Elementary Particle Physics, Ljubljana, Slovenia, July 3-15, 1995.
Chairman of the Local Organizing Committee of the 6th International Conference on B-Physics at Hadron Machines, BEAUTY'99, Bled, Slovenia, June 21-25, 1999.
Member of the International advisory committee of the International Workshop on Aging Phenomena in Gaseous Detectors , DESY, Hamburg, October 1-5, 2001.
Member of the conference committees, session organizer, session chair and short course organizer at the IEEE NSS conferences 1997 (Toronto), 2000 (Lyon), 2002 (Norfolk), 2003 (Portland), 2004 (Rome).
Member of the International advisory committee of the RICH conference series.
Member of the International advisory committee of the Vienna Conference on Instrumentation conference series.
Chairman of the Local Organizing Committee of the 5th Flavour Physics and CP Violation Conference FPCP07, Bled, Slovenia, May 12-16, 2007.

Memberships

Slovenian Mathematical, Physical and Astronomical Society
European Physical Society

Last update November, 2005