Stephanie Hansmann-Menzemer

Dr. Stephanie Hansmann-Menzemer

Physikalisches Institut - Universität Heidelberg

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Education

1999-2003 PhD in experimental particle physics, University Karlsruhe, Germany

1994-1999 Study Mathematics and Physics at University Karlsruhe, Germany

1997-1998 Double-Study-Program of German-French-University, University Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, France

Awards

2007 Young Researcher Award of Europeen Physics Society (EPS)

2006 Tollewstrup award for outstanding post-doctoral research work

2003 PhD thesis and graduation awarded with grade "excellent"

1999 German-French university award for outstanding scientific research work within the exchange programme

Employment/Fellowships

since 2009 Professor of University of Heidelberg

since 2006 Emmy-Noether Young-Researcher-Group-Leader-Fellow (DFG) at University Heidelberg

2005-2006 Post-doctoral fellow at University of Cantabria, Spain

2003-2005 Post-doctoral fellow (DFG), guest scientist at MIT, USA

2003 Post-doctoral researcher at University Karlsruhe

Research Experience:

I did my diploma thesis within a research group at the Insitute Science Nucleaire, Grenoble and worked on MUNU, a muon neutrino experiment close to the BUGY reactor and on a futur solar neutrino experiment LENS.
For my PHD thesis . I joint the CDF group at Insitut fuer Experimentelle Kernphysik in Karlsruhe and mainly worked on track reconstruction in the vertex detector.
After my graduation I joined the MIT group and later Cantrabria and worked with them for 2.5 years at Fermilab. I was responsible for the TOF reconstruction and worked on the Bs mixing analysis. It was a great experience to work in such a strong team and to get all together this impressive results out . My very own contribution to this analysis was the development of a so-called same-side-kaon-tagging algorithm which in the end allowed us to do the first measurement of the Bs mixing frequency.

About two years ago I joined the Physikalische Insitiut of Universitaet Heidelberg and started my work within the LHCb experiment. My group took over major responsability for the pattern recogintion in the tracking system. Since end of last year, I became coordinator of the LHCb tracking group. We just started to study the CP Violation in Bs Mixing, one of the most interessting analysis within the LHCb experiment. Beside this medium/long term goal we work on first day analaysis, which allow us to extract interessting and publishable results on the first few months of data of the LHCb experiment.