Team Bios

Andrew R. Baden
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Drew Baden is Professor and Chair of the Department of Physics at the University of Maryland, College Park. Dr. Baden has worked in many aspects of high-energy physics over the past 20 years, and was part of the D0 collaboration at Fermilab which, along with the CDF team, discovered the top quark in 1995. Since the late 1990s, he has been part of the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) collaboration at the Large Hadron Collider. He and his team are specifically responsible for designing, prototyping, testing and manufacturing the "trigger" electronics for the CMS hadron calorimeter.
 
Sarah C. Eno
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Sarah Eno is Professor of Physics at the University of Maryland, College Park. She joined the UMD faculty in 1993 after serving as Research Scientist at the University of Chicago's Enrico Fermi Institute. In the late 1990s, Dr. Eno joined the Large Hadron Collider's Compact Muon Solenoid collaboration, in which she serves as co-convener of the group charged with detection of all new particles except the Higgs boson. She participates in the creation of software to identify novel phenomena ranging from supersymmetric particles and anomalous decay modes to the formation of miniature black holes.
     
Nicholas J. Hadley
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Nicholas Hadley is Professor of Physics at the University of Maryland, College Park. He came to the university from the Yale physics faculty 20 years ago, and has conducted extensive research in various aspects of particle physics. He was a co-head of the group on the D0 experiment at Fermilab which, at the same time as a group from the CDF experiment, discovered the top quark in 1995. For the Large Hadron Collider effort, Dr. Hadley serves as chairman of the US-CMS Collaboration Board, which oversees policy for the more than 600 US scientists on CMS. He has also worked on the remote operations center that will enable scientists to particate in detector operations without having to travel to CERN.
 
Andris Skuja
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Andris Skuja is Professor of Physics at the University of Maryland, College Park, where he has been on the faculty for more than 30 years. Dr. Skuja has extensive experience in international high-energy projects, and has worked at the DESY accelerator facility in Germany and the OPAL experiment at CERN prior to joining the Large Hadron Collider's Compact Muon Solenoid collaboration. For CMS, Dr. Skuja serves as Project Manager for the hadron calorimeter, a position that entails considerable travel and international scientific and engineering liaison.