Thomas Bergauer

DI Dr.

Thomas Bergauer

DI Dr.
  • Group Leader Detector Development
  • Detector Development
  • Belle, 
  • CMS Tracker, 
  • Detector Development

Biographical sketch

Thomas Bergauer performs strategic R&D on particle detectors for future High Energy Physics (HEP) experiments and applications in medical imaging and other domains. He works on high-precision lightweight detectors with an ultra-low material budget for future electron/positron colliders using Depleted Monolithic Active Pixel Sensors (DMAPS), which integrate the sensing element with readout electronics. For hadron machines, he performs research on radiation hard detectors at ultra-high fluences, as well as on precision timing and innovative wide-bandgap semiconductor material like Silicon Carbide. To fully exploit the possibilities of the ion therapy center MedAustron with its synchrotron, he is involved in several projects ranging from beam instrumentation and ion imaging to microdosimetry. He established close collaboration with the semiconductor industry in Austria and internationally for his research.

He has been leading the semiconductor group at HEPHY since 2008 and the department for detector development since 2019, where he is responsible for the operation of the experimental facilities.

Funding

Granted third-party funding

Former and Current Positions

Memberships in Editorial Board

Academic Honors and Awards

  • Houskapreis 2014 (2nd rank) with the development of radiation-hard semiconductor detectors with Infineon (Video)

Teaching

  • VO+UE "Techniken der Signalerfassung und Auswertung" (VO 141.A88 + UE 141.A89) at TU Wien 
  • LU "Experimente am MedAustron Teilchenbeschleuniger - Angewandte Teilchenphysik und medizinische Physik" (LU 141.A99) at TU Wien
  • PR "Experimentelle Methoden der Hochenergiephysik" (PR 141.A31 and 141.A46), TU Vienna
  • PR "Messmethoden in der Hochenergiephysik" (PR 260051), University of Vienna
  • VO "Grundlagen der Teilchendetektoren" (VO 141.250) 

Lecturer at international schools

  • Silicon Detectors in High Energy Physics, at "School on Silicon Detector Technologies" (Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences), Tehran (Iran), 2011
  • Semiconductor Detectors in High Energy Physics at "The Actual Problems of Microword Physics" (Gomel, Belarus, 2009

Research interests

  • Development of silicon particle detectors for tracking and calorimeter purposes
  • Application of detectors for medical imaging
  • R&D on radiation-hard silicon detectors for future HEP experiments
    • Precision timing for pile-up suppression in HL-LHC and FCC-hh
    • Monolithic detectors with ultra-high spacial precision and low material budget
    • New semiconductor materials like Silicon Carbide with superior properties
  • Development of the Silicon Vertex Detector of the Belle II experiment at KEK (Japan)
  • Industrialization of the production of Si detectors for HEP applications
  • Radiation Protection

Outreach activities

Numerous public lectures about particle physics, CERN, particle accelerators like the LHC, the Higgs Boson and applications of HEP research in medical imaging, promoting particle physics to the general public.

Titles and Talks in German:

  • LHC -- die größte Maschine der Welt
  • Kosmische Strahlung in Alltag und Technik

Audience: Adults (VHS, HEPHY exhibition), Kids (schools),…

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