Dr. Cristina Afonso
Physical sciences
Physical sciences
The Physics of Elementary Particles and Fields, Modelling and simulation, Physics, Science and technology, Experimental aspects of elementary particles and fields (including astro-particle physics)
Searches for new particles and physics beyond the standard model, Top quark, Large hadron collider, BSM, Compact Muon Solenoid, CMS, LHC; Data science, Multivariate techniques and deep learning
CMS LHC Physics Center Fellowship awarded by US Department of Energy and National Science Foundation
Collective Award: The European Physics Society HEPP prize was awarded to the Dzero Collaboration, 2019
Royal Flemish Academy of Science and Arts science communication year prize 2016
Odysseus II Grant awarded by FWO (Flemish funding agency), 2011 – 2016
Collective Award: The European Physics Society HEPP prize was awarded to the CMS Collaboration, 2013
Collective Award: Science Magazine \Breakthrough of the Year 2012" the discovery of the Higgs boson, 2012
Dutch, English, French, German
By convention, articles published by particle physics experiments list all collaboration members in strict alphabetical order. This policy reflects the substantial efforts in detector construction and maintenance, data acquisition, data reconstruction and calibration that all collaborators contribute to and which is a prerequisite to any data analysis. This is particularly relevant for those who have committed a substantial fraction of their time to construction, installation and commissioning of detectors. Also note that the papers from large collaborations such as the CMS experiment are almost exclusively published in high impact factor journals (in the first quartile, Q1) with impact factors around 5, whereas Nature Physics (IF: 20) and Science (IF: 30) should be considered as rather unconventional publication channels in the hep-ex field, with more PR than scientific impact value.
As such, scientific leadership, which is awarded after selection on merits and excellence within the collaboration, as are conference presentations, add a reliable additional measure of scientific productivity in the hep-ex field than merely citations alone. Like many fundamental physics disciplines, the inspireHEP database is used for citation/publication metrics and preprint monitoring. If I focus only on the 76 papers to which I have made a provable contribution, my Hirsh index would be around 45.
First ever CMS Physics Communication Officer, responsible for the communication and outreach of 130+ scientific papers per year, since 2018
Member (2016 – 2017) and consecutively co-chairperson of the CMS Publication Committee on Supersymmetry, final responsible for the publication of all journal papers on Supersymmetry searches by the CMS collaboration, 2016 – 2019
As the founder of the Beyond-Two-Generations physics group in the CMS experiment at CERN with 250 members world-wide, I have enabled the rapidly growing new research area of the CMS experiment with output (as of present) 60+ journal publications (12 produced during my tenure as convener) on the topic of searches for new physics using top quarks in the exotica sector, 2012 – 2014
Convener CMS pixel offline software group, leading an international team of 50 people working on silicon pixel reconstruction software, i.e. simulation, digitization and reconstruction of pixel detector data, data quality monitoring, databases and calibration, including cosmic ray studies, 2008 – 2009
Director of Undergraduate studies VUB Ba & Ma Physics & Astronomy, since 2018
Vice-chairperson of the VUB department of Physics & Astronomy, since 2018
Member of executive committee VUB faculty of Science and Bioengineering, 2015 – 2018
President of the PR and Outreach Council, VUB Faculty of Science and Bioengineering, 2014 – 2018
Secretary of Examination/Admissions Council, VUB Master of Physics and Astrophysics, 2014 – 2018
Secretary of Examination Council, VUB Bachelor of Physics and Astrophysics, 2014 – 2018
Twitter: @freyablekman
Featured at CERN during a extremely successful YouTube video series on the restart of the large hadron collider in 2015: Watch the video here .
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Physical sciences
Physical sciences, Quantum simulation, Ultracold atoms
Physical sciences, Surface and interface science, (photo)catalysis and nanophotonics
Biological and related sciences, Physical sciences, Bioelectrochemistry, Synthetic Biology, Chemical Biology