About me

I grew up in Järvsö, Sweden. I have a MSc in applied physics from Linköping University where I did one year at RWTH Aachen, Germany. In 2009 I finished a PhD in accelerator physics at CERN, Switzerland, working on the Ions for LHC project, employed partly by CERN and partly by MAX-lab and Lund University in Sweden. For my PhD thesis I received the 2011 Outstanding Doctoral Thesis in Beam Physics Award at PAC11, hosted by the American Physical Society.  In 2012 I was selected as young researcher to participate in the 62nd Nobel Laureate meeting in Lindau, Germany, together with more than 28 Nobel price winners in physics and chemistry.

I currently work as an accelerator physicist at CERN in the Accelerator and Beam Physics group. Some of my work topics are:

• Coordination and planning of the LHC heavy-ion program on the machine side, elaboration of operational scenarios for present and future runs
  
• Devising optimized running scenarios for the LHC proton runs to maximize performance, in particular through exploring limits on the beam size in the LHC collision points from collimation
• Performance evaluation and optimization of the LHC collimation system through measurements and beam dynamics studies
• Commissioning and operational support for the LHC collimation system
• Beam optics for the LHC collimation system
  
• Beam-induced background in the ATLAS and CMS experiments
• Chairman of the LHC collimation working group
• Sub-work package leader of the HiLumi LHC work package 5.1: collimation studies
  
• Task leader in the HiLumi LHC work package 2.6: Ion beam operation
  
• Study leader for the design of a collimation system for the Future Circular Collider (FCC-hh)
• Supervision of students and fellows

My research interests are accelerator physics in general and the design and operation of particle accelerators. I am interested in both theoretical and applied/experimental work.