Freya Blekman
Head Of Internal Communications Of The CMS Collaboration At CERN
Hamburg, Germany
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Top SchoolFreya Blekman is an experimental particle physicist and leader with 12+ years driving research and communication at major global labs, currently Head of Internal Communications for the CMS Collaboration at CERN while serving as Lead Scientist at DESY and Professor at the University of Hamburg. Her work spans detector hardware, radiation-hard silicon technology, high-performance computing, and production-grade C++ and Python software to probe questions about mass, dark matter, and the evolution of the universe. She has deep expertise in top-quark physics, b-tagging and particle-flow techniques developed during long-term CMS involvement, and she shapes strategy for future collider opportunities. Freya combines rigorous academic mentorship and public outreach—including innovative use of new media—with operational leadership across multinational collaborations. Colleagues rely on her ability to translate complex data-science and ML methods into robust analysis pipelines and detector upgrades. Based in Hamburg, she brings a rare mix of hands-on instrumentation know-how, software craftsmanship, and science communication at the highest levels of particle physics.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
VWO, VWO, VWO, VWO at Montessori Lyceum AmsterdamPhD, Physics, PhD, Physics at University of Amsterdam
English, Dutch, German, French
Github Skills (21)
particle10
physics9
open-data9
discovery8
datasets8
cosmology8
reduction7
cms7
orbital-mechanics7
astronomy6
hydrodynamics6
astrodynamics6
simulations6
random-walk6
effort6
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
cms-opendata-analyses/HiggsExample20112012
Dec 2017 - Dec 2017
This example guides the user to reproducing the discovery of the Higgs boson using the 2011 and 2012 datasets. It contains multiple levels of examples, from very simple to a full analysis. See README.md for further details.
Contributions:73 commits, 106 pushes, 1 branch in 9 days
bosondiscoveryhiggslevelsdatasets
TopBrussels/HToZZBachelorProjectNtupleMaker
Feb 2015 - Dec 2017
Contributions:73 pushes in 2 years 9 months
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