Who we are

shreyasi [dot] acharya [at] cern [dot] ch

Shreyasi Acharya is an experimental physicist with the ALICE experiment at CERN and a recipient of the 2022 ALICE Thesis Award. She is currently a postdoctoral researcher at INFN Bari, Italy, working on quarkonia and heavy-flavour particles in ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions. She believes the climate crisis is a global challenge affecting everyone and strives to contribute to its mitigation alongside her research in high-energy physics.

dueren [at] hecap [dot] eco

Michael spent his professional life on particle physics experiments at CERN, MPI-Heidelberg, DESY and FAIR. In parallel he worked on global energy concepts and was Cofounder of the Desertec Foundation. In 2021 he was awarded the Robert Wichard Pohl Prize “In recognition of his experiments in the field of particle and hadron physics, as well as his tireless and multifaceted commitment to communicating science to civil society and his expert advocacy for a global energy transition.” He regards HECAP as the ideal community for people who want to combine professional expertise with environmental responsibility.

mandeep [at] hecap [dot] eco

Mandeep has a background in particle physics, but is now Research Staff at the Minnesota Institute For Astrophysics working on helping set up the TURBO Telescope Array which will have observatories in New Mexico, USA, and Crete, Greece to observe transient objects such as binary neutron star collisions.  He has also long been active in environmental issues and finds the HECAP+ initiative to be a natural conjunction of these two primary parts of his life that matter both to humans in the deep philosophical, and also very daily practical, senses.

diego [at] hecap [dot] eco

Diego is a research scientist at the European Spallation Source (ESS) in Lund, Sweden. His work focuses on finding ways of generating and optimizing energy use in research infrastructures to reduce their environmental footprint. His main project is the FlexRICAN initiative where he leads the WP for renewable energy production at RIs. 

kristin [at] hecap [dot] eco

As a member of the ATLAS collaboration, Kristin studies the particle interactions at the high energy frontier with a focus on Standard Model processes and effective field theory. She is a senior lecturer at the University of Sheffield where she is also involved in building the new ATLAS inner tracking detector. 

Secretariat, rakhi [at] hecap [dot] eco

Rakhi is a theoretical particle physicist at the Rudjer Boskovic Institute in Zagreb, Croatia. As her day job, she works out how to effectively extract information about the fundamental constituents of matter and their interactions from colliders, such as the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, and from the sky, via astrophysical observations.

Chair, millington [at] hecap [dot] eco

Pete is a theoretical physicist and UKRI Future Leaders Fellow based at The University of Manchester in the UK. Pete specialises in quantum field theory — the mathematical framework that describes the motion and interactions of subatomic particles — and he uses it to try to understand how and why the Universe looks the way that it does today.

a.paul [at] hecap [dot] eco

Ayan Paul is the PI of the Neural Dynamics group at the Institute for Experiential AI, Northeastern University. Paul's research focuses on RNA biology, protein structure and function prediction and evolution, and immune cell biology for personalized immunotherapy. In addition, Paul's group specializes in generative models in computer vision and NLP and knowledge aggregation and retrieval.

karolos [at] hecap [dot] eco

Karolos probes particle interactions with the ATLAS Experiment at CERN, measuring the rarest Standard Model processes and probing physics beyond the SM.He is an expert in silicon detectors, currently responsible for the integration of the ATLAS Inner Tracker Strip Barrel. He is an Associate Professor at the University of Warwick.

prajval [dot] shastri [at] hecap [dot] eco

WP lead, wakeling [at] hecap [dot] eco

Hannah is a postdoctoral researcher in particle accelerator environmental sustainability at the John Adams Institute for Accelerator Physics, at the University of Oxford in the UK. Her research focuses on reducing the environmental impact of particle accelerators and her main project is performing a Life Cycle Assessment for the proposed ISIS-II Neutron and Muon Source.