Markus Friedl

DI Dr.

Markus Friedl

DI Dr.
  • Group Leader Electronics
  • Electronics
  • Electronics
  • Belle, 
  • COSINUS, 
  • NU-CLEUS

Biographical sketch

Born: 18 July 1973 in Vienna, Austria

Education:

1999 – 2001Doctoral Study Course in Electrical Engineering, finished with distinction
1991 – 1999Diploma Study Course in Electrical Engineering (bachelor+master)
1983 – 1991Grammar School (Realgymnasium), graduation with distinction
1979 – 1983Primary School (Volksschule)

Employment:

19993 months at MIT (Cambridge, MA) for the PHOBOS experiment
1997 – 1999Website design for three small companies
1995 – presentWorking at HEPHY (employed since 1997), since 2025: MBI
1993 – 1995Tutor for programming course in Pascal at University of Technology (TU Wien)
1989 – 1995Several summer jobs with Siemens, IBM, Honeywell and Shell companies

Positions:

2014 – presentLeader of the Belle II Silicon Vertex Detector Electronics Group and deputy leader of the Mechanics group
2010 – 2018Leader of the machine shop department
2009 – 2013Co-convener of the Belle II Silicon Vertex Detector group
2009 – 2018Fire safety engineer (Brandschutzbeauftragter)
2007 – presentLeader of the electronics department

Collaborations:

2025 – presentVirgo @ Pisa
2025 – presentALICE @ CERN
2018 – presentCosinus @ LNGS, Nucleus @ Chooz
2002 – presentBelle & Belle II @ KEK
1999PHOBOS @ BNL
1998 – presentCMS @ CERN
1995 – 1999RD42 (development of diamond detectors) @ CERN

Teaching

2026Organizer and Lecturer at the Cogne Instrumentation School, Atominstitut Vienna
2020 – presentVO and UE "Techniken der Signalerfassung und Auswertung" (VO 141.A88 and UE 141.A89), TU Vienna
2014Lecturer at the Danube School on Instrumentation in Elementary Particle and Nuclear Physics, Novi Sad
2009 – 2017PR "Experimentelle Methoden der Hochenergiephysik" (PR 141.A31 and 141.A46), TU Vienna

Research interests

I am working on readout electronics for the Nucleus and Cosinus experiments.

These experiments are looking for rare events using cryogenic detectors (operated at a temperature near absolute zero). It is about Dark Matter in the case of Cosinus at the Gran Sasso underground laboratory in Italy; and special properties of neutrinos for Nucleus at the Chooz nuclear power plant in France, where neutrinos are generated in large numbers. Even though the aim of the experiments is different, they use similar setups and instrumentation.

Furthermore I conduct R&D for a future upgrade of the Belle II-Vertex Detector in Japan, which shall be implemented in the early 2030s. An upgrade for the ALICE Tracker at CERN is on a similar timescale and will use a similar readout system, such that there are synergies between those two experiments.

From 2027 on, we will also contribute with electronics to the Virgo Gravitational Wave experiment in Italy.

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