Paraskevas Andreas Sphicas is a particle physicist who focuses on studies of High energy collisions in the Large Hadron Collider through which he explores supersymmetry and the mechanism of spontaneous symmetry breaking.
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Paraskevas Sphicas is a senior scientist at CERN and professor of physics at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.
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Paraskevas Sphicas was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2019.
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Paraskevas Sphicas worked on his PhD thesis at the UA1 experiment in CERN, looking for new resonances that decay into jets and studying the production of multiple particle jets.
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Paraskevas Sphicas moved back to the US in 1990 when appointed a Wilson Fellow by Fermilab.
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Paraskevas Sphicas worked on the Tevatron at the Collider Detector at Fermilab.
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Paraskevas Sphicas continued work on the CDF through the 1990s as part of MIT's team in the CDF experiments.
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The 18 MIT scientists, by then led by Paraskevas Sphicas, were part of the team that produced the first evidence for the Top quark in 1994.
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Paraskevas Sphicas began participating in the Compact Muon Solenoid experiment at CERN in 1994.
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Paraskevas Sphicas was appointed as Professor of Physics at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens in 2002.
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Paraskevas Sphicas worked in several supervisory roles in the CMS experiment, as it progressed towards the discovery of the Higgs boson in 2012.
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Paraskevas Sphicas is currently working on the upgrade of the level-1 trigger system of the CMS, preparing for the High Luminosity phase of the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, set to complete by 2026.
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Paraskevas Sphicas has been serving as the chair of European Committee for Future Accelerators since January 2024.