Ann-Kathrin Perrevoort appointed as Tenure Track Assistant Professor in experimental particle physics at the VSI

Ann-Kathrin Perrevoort has been appointed as Tenure Track Assistant Professor in experimental particle physics at the VSI on January 1st, 2024. By conducting research with the LHCb experiment at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, she will contribute to the High-Energy Frontier of the institute.

Her research interests lie in fundamental interactions of matter and in particular in searches for hints of so-called physics beyond the Standard Model which addresses open questions and problems of our current best description of particle physics - the Standard Model.

This physics beyond the Standard Model could manifest in small deviations from Standard Model predictions through quantum corrections. Searches for such small deviations in rare or even forbidden Standard Model processes are in the focus of Ann-Kathrin's research.

In addition to physics searches, she will work on the upgrade of the LHCb detector to prepare it for future data taking at higher interaction rates which enhances the sensitivity of coming searches.

Ann-Kathrin performed her BSc and MSc studies at the Heidelberg University in Germany where she also obtained her PhD in experimental particle physics. She has worked on the upcoming high-intensity muon physics experiment Mu3e both as PhD student in Heidelberg as well as as postdoctoral fellow at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. Within Mu3e, she has estimated the sensitivity of the experiment to various signatures of physics beyond the Standard Model and has developed essential parts of the data acquisition. Furthermore, she has conducted physics searches with the ATLAS experiment at CERN as a postdoc at Nikhef in Amsterdam and the Radboud University Nijmegen. In ATLAS, she also worked on projects in data acquisition and instrumentation. The majority of her time as postdoc in ATLAS she spent on-site at CERN in Geneva.