Dr. Andre Sopczak

André Sopczak is an Associate Professor at the Czech Technical University (CTU) in Prague. After his studies at LMU Munich, he received his PhD from the University of California, San Diego, in 1992, then worked as a CERN and DESY Fellow for the L3 experiment and subsequently as a research and teaching assistant at the University of Karlsruhe for the DELPHI experiment. After the LEP era at CERN, he worked in research and teaching as a UK Lecturer for the D0 experiment at Fermilab and on future Linear Collider projects. In 2012, he moved to the Institute of Experimental and Applied Physics, CTU in Prague, focusing on the ATLAS experiment. At LEP, Tevatron, and LHC, he was involved in implementations, alignment, and applications of silicon detectors. For the future Linear Collider, he worked on CCD detectors in the Linear Collider Flavour Identification Collaboration. For the ATLAS detector, he led the luminosity measurement with Medipix and Timepix detectors. His work has been instrumental in the search for axion-like particles using the ATLAS Forward Proton Detector. In recent years and in future research planning, his focus has been on the application of machine learning for analyses of ttH, tH, tbH+, HH, and leptoquarks. This research utilizes all components of the ATLAS detector for analyses with multi-lepton signatures and hadronic jets. He is also involved in outreach projects and the IEEE organization.