IPPOG
IPPOG Forum Members
Sweden
Intro
The Swedish particle physics research activities are centered at universities, with groups working on e.g. the ALICE, ATLAS, and LDMX experiments, as well as astroparticle experiments like XENON, IceCube, Hyper-Kamiokande, as well as substantial activities in theory and phenomenology research. Many groups are very involved in outreach activities with PhD students, postdocs, and faculty members organizing events at museums, giving guided tours at CERN, Masterclasses for high school students, etc. Our goals is to communicate why particle physics research is important, how it is done, and what benefit it brings to society on both the shorter and the longer time scales.
Details
JOINED: 2016
CURRENT STATUS: MEMBER
Den svenska partikelfysikforskningen sker vid universiteten, med forskargrupper som arbetar med såväl ALICE-, ATLAS- och LDMX-experimenten som astropartikelfysikexperiment som XENON, IceCube och Hyper-Kamiokande, och betydande forskningsaktiviteter inom teori och fenomenologi. Många forskargrupper är väldigt engagerade i utåtriktade aktiviteter med doktorander, postdocs och seniora forskare som organiserar evenemang på muséer, guidade besök på CERN, sk Masterclasses för skolelever, etc. Våra mål är att kommunicera varför forskning inom partikelfysik är viktigt, hur forskningen går till, och hur den påverkar utvecklingen av vårt samhälle på både kort och lång sikt.
JOINED: 2016
CURRENT STATUS: MEMBER
Representative
Rebeca Gonzalez Suarez
Rebeca Gonzalez Suarez is a Spanish-Swedish particle physicist that works at Uppsala University in Sweden where she teaches physics in the Departments of Physics and Astronomy and Engineering Sciences. A member of the ATLAS Collaboration at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) since 2018, she started her career in the CMS Collaboration (2006-2018) looking for the Higgs boson for the PhD thesis. After being based at CERN for a decade, working for institutes in Belgium and the US, she now leads a growing research team in Sweden. A Higgs boson and top quark expert, today she keeps looking for answers to long standing questions in the field searching for new phenomena at the LHC and beyond, in the particle colliders of the future.
With more than fifteen years of public engagement experience including but not limited to different outreach events, media appearances, extensive guiding and science communication, she was elected outreach coordinator of the ATLAS Collaboration in 2020, and within this role she has been in charge of the ATLAS-wide education, communication, and outreach program since March 1st 2021
