Hans Peter Beck
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Hans Peter Beck | |
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| Alma mater | University of Zurich |
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| Fields | Physics |
| Institutions | University of Bern University of Fribourg CERN |
| Thesis | Measurement of the total photoproduction cross section at the electron proton collider HERA at Wp of 200 GeV (1996) |
| Doctoral advisor | Peter Truöl |
Hans Peter Beck (born 19 January 1965) is a Swiss experimental particle physicist and a former president of the Swiss Physical Society.[1][2][3] Since 1997, he has served as a reader at the University of Bern and in addition, since 2014, as a titular professor at the University of Fribourg. Beck is a member of the ATLAS collaboration, one of the two major experiments at CERN that analyze particle collisions at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), which led to the discovery of the Higgs boson in 2012.[4][5][6]
Finishing his doctorate at University of Zurich, related to research carried out at the DESY laboratory in Hamburg, in 1996,[7] Beck worked shortly a consultant and engineer in the private Swiss industry before taking up a position at the University of Bern. Since then Beck has been affiliated to the CERN scientific programme.[8] In 2025 he was appointed a full member in the Swiss Academy of Engineering Sciences (SATW).[9] Beck has co-authored more than 1500 scientific articles.[10]
