Prof. Dr. André Rubbia

After having earned his diploma in physics at the Département Physique Nucléaire et Corspusculaire (DPNC) at University of Geneva in 1990, Prof. Dr. André Rubbia began his graduate studies in the field of particle physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he focused on high-energy electron-positron collisions and worked on the development of particle detectors. After his return to Switzerland in 1993 he became a fellow, then staff researcher, at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN). In 1998, at age 32, he was elected Associate Professor at the Institute for Particle Physics at ETH Zürich. In 2003, he was promoted to Full Professor. At ETHZ he teaches notably basic and specialised courses at the Bachelor’s and Masters’ levels, in addition to initiating and leading new lines of research in astro-particle physics, neutrino physics, and exotic atoms.