Olivier Schneider

Expertise Physique des particules élémentairesPhysique des saveurs lourdes et violation de CP After his thesis defense in particle physics in 1989 at University of Lausanne, Olivier Schneider joins LBL, the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory (California), to work on the CDF experiment at the Tevatron in Fermilab (Illinois), first as a research fellow supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation, and later as a post-doc at LBL. He participates in the construction and commissioning of the first silicon vertex detector to operate successfully at a hadron collider; this detector enabled the discovery of the sixth quark, named "top". Since 1994, he comes back to Europe and participates in the ALEPH experiment at CERN's Large Electron-Positron Collider, as CERN fellow and then as CERN scientific staff. He specializes in heavy flavour physics. In 1998, he becomes associate professor at University of Lausanne, then extraordinary professor at the Swiss Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL) in 2003, and finally full professor at EPFL in 2010. Having worked since 1997 on the preparation of the LHCb experiment at CERN's Large Hadron Collider, which started operation in 2009, he is now analyzing the first data. He also contributes since 2001 to the exploitation of the data recorded at the Belle experiment (KEK laboratory, Tsukuba, Japan). These two experiments study mainly the decays of hadrons containing a b quark, as well CP violation, i.e. the non-invariance under the symmetry between matter and antimatter.Recherche actuelle Expérience LHCb au CERNExpérience SND@LHCHeavy Flavour averaging GroupParticle Data Group RechercheDomaines de recherche actuels Full publication list from Inspire database (most recent first)List of publications with more than 100 citations from Inspire database (most recent first)Author profile in Inspire database Enseignement et PhD Doctorant·es actuel·les Federico Ronchetti A dirigé les thèses EPFL de Luis Fernandez, Jérémie Borel, Jean Wicht, Kim Vervink, Louis Nicolas, Nicolas Zwahlen, Marc-Olivier Bettler, Mathias Oleg Knecht, Remi Léandre Albert Louvot, Joël Bressieux, Raphael Märki, Jessica Prisciandaro, Giovanni Veneziano, Sebastiana Gianì, Maxime Schubiger, Vincenzo Battista, Violaine Bellée, Sondre Vik Furuseth, Surapat Ek-In, Veronica Sølund Kirsebom, Carina Trippl, Sebastian Schulte, Jennifer Maria Frieden, Marie Bachmayer Cours Physique nucléaire PHYS-342 Introduction générale à la physique des noyaux atomiques: des états liés à la diffusion. Prix et distinctions Fundamental Physics Breakthrough Prize 2025