Patrick Koppenburg
Research Staff at Working Group on the Sustainability Assessment of Accelerators
La Rippe, Vaud, Switzerland
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Top SchoolPatrick Koppenburg is a senior research physicist and scientific leader with two decades of experience steering major particle-physics collaborations, currently serving as Research Staff at NIKHEF and holding leadership roles across CERN, INFN and LHCb. He has coordinated LHCb physics activities, overseen publication quality as Editorial Board Chair, and managed data processing and analysis projects that drove ~130 journal articles including a joint Nature paper—evidence of his ability to deliver large-scale, high-stakes scientific outputs. Patrick regularly shapes European strategy and infrastructure for future accelerators through roles in ECFA, IRIS-HEP and strategy working groups, and he chairs high-level advisory bodies such as ACCU. Beyond coordination, he mentors PhD students and teaches postgraduate courses, combining deep experimental expertise (PhD, Université de Lausanne) with hands-on detector and analysis experience dating back to KEK and CERN commissioning. Not obvious from titles alone: he blends administrative influence with technical stewardship, moving between frontline analysis, publication governance and sustainability assessments for accelerator facilities.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Maturité fédérale C, Maturité fédérale C at Gymnase de la Cité, LausanneEcole nouvelle de la suisse romandeMaster Physics, Master Physics at University of Lausanne - UNILPhD Physics, PhD Physics at Université de LausanneCertificat Scientifique, Certificat Scientifique at Collège de Béthusy
French, German, German, Dutch, Japanese, English
Github Skills (40)
sqlalchemy10
flask10
python9
indico9
distributed-computing8
user-interface7
arxiv7
automator5
golang5
frontend5
digital-humanities4
cosmology4
unicode4
mkdocs4
utterances3
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
pkoppenb/starterkit-lessons
Jun 2020 - Aug 2022
Lessons taught at the Starterkit workshops.
Contributions:3 pushes in 2 years 2 months
starterkit
pkoppenb/EF2023
Dec 2023 - Jan 2025
Contributions:15 pushes in 1 year 2 months
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