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Dr Matteo Balbo

Postdoc at University of Geneva

Responsible for the CTA data quality pipeline at DPNC, university of Geneva
Research in high-energy astrophysics

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Prof Adrian Biland

CTAO board of governmental representatives
Member of the CTAC consortium board
Chair of MAGIC collaboration board

Development of next generation Digital Photon Counter (DiPC)
MAGIC-LST and MAGIC-CTAO coordination

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Dr Leonid Burmistrov

Postdoc at University of Geneva

Simulation of the Telescope

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Dr Mykhailo Dalchenko

Maître-Assistant at University of Geneva, DPNC

CTAO DPPS Software Architect
CTAO DPPS Calibration Pipeline team leader

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Dr. Matthieu Heller

Maître Einsegnement et Recherche

Deputy of System Engineer for the large size telescope of CTA
Leader of the Advanced SiPM camera WG in the Large Size Telescope project of CTA

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Dr. Hancheng Li

Postdoc at University of Geneva

Responsible for the development of BDMS and HMI

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Dr Etienne Lyard

Software developer at University of Geneva

Coordinator of the Array Data Handler workpackage (ADH) in ACADA
Responsible for the Science Data Handler of ADH
Contributor to the Bulk Data Management System (BDMS) of DPPS
Contributor to the data acquisition system of LST

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Dr. Tjark Miener

Postdoc at University of Geneva

Developer of the Calibration pipeline of CTA
Member of the Advanced SiPM camera WG in the Large Size Telescope project of CTA

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Prof Teresa Montaruli

Full Professor at University of Geneva

Calibration Pipeline of DPPS software of CTAO

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I am the Swiss Coordinator of the CTA-CH consortium and a member of the CTAO Council representing Switzerland with a representative of the State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation (SERI). My work was fundamental in establishing CTA in the SERI Roadmap for large research Infrastructures. In the past, I lead one of the projects for the construction of small-size telescopes, named SST-1M, and now I lead the activities of my group in the Large Size Telescope and in the Calibration Pipeline of DPPS software of CTAO. I conceived and designed the SST-1M, and in a team with Polish and Czech Institutions, we built and installed two SST-1M. They are now being commissioned in the Ondroyev Observatory for a future destination. The construction of SST-1M was an extremely relevant learning experience. The results have influenced the design of the Cherenkov telescope of the Chinese Observatory LHAASO for which we produced and financed the lightguides of the cameras of fluorescence and Cherenkov telescopes. In 2021, I joined a new enterprise called NUSES. I am responsible for the construction of the camera plane of photosensors of the payload TERZINA, a prototype for Cherenkov detection from space and my group leads the simulation effort. I am a member of IceCube to which I gave fundamental contributions for the discovery of the first astrophysical neutrinos.

I was the Chair of APPEC Consortium between 2019-2020 and led the astroparticle community through the update of the European Particle Physics strategy. I am the President since Sep. 2023.