(Current CV) Born in Odessa in 1954. Studied physics in Novosibirsk and Cambridge USA, graduated from Harvard University with AB in Physics in 1978. PhD in Physics from Caltech in 1985. Worked on several accelerator projects at Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, followed by a year at LEP, CERN, Geneva. Joined Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) near Zürich in 1989 and worked on the design, construction and commissioning of the Swiss Light Source. PSI Deputy Director, since 2006 the Head of the Department of Large Research Facilities at PSI and professor of particle accelerator physics at EPFL. Currently serving on several international advisory committees and a Fellow of the American Physical Society and Honorary Member of the Swiss Physical Society. (Current CV)
Teaching & PhD Past EPFL PhD Students Mirko Pojer, Riccardo De Maria, Chiara Bracco, Benoît Salvant, Guido Sterbini, Luisella Lari, Valentina Previtali, Adriano Garonna, Öznur Mete, Pier Paolo Granieri, Sandra Aumon, Nicolas Frank Mounet, Stefania Trovati, Mariusz Juchno, Carlo Zannini, Juan Blanco Sancho, Philippe Jean Schoofs, Alberto Degiovanni, Nikolaos Charitonidis, César Octavio Domínguez Sánchez De La Blanca, José Luis Abelleira Fernández, Giovanni De Michele, Xavier Buffat, Bennie Smit, Eirini Koukovini Platia, Ishkhan Gorgisyan, Dario Pellegrini, Márton Ady, Juan Federico Esteban Müller, Arkadiusz Andrzej Gorzawski, Adrian Oeftiger, Francesco Maria Velotti, Claudia Tambasco, Stefano Benedetti, Andrea Santamaría García, Joël Repond, Michael Schenk, Agnieszka Chmielinska Past EPFL PhD Students as codirector Tatiana Pieloni
