Wolfgang Adam

DI

Wolfgang Adam

DI
  • Senior research associate
  • CMS
  • Gravitational Waves
  • CMS Physics Analysis, 
  • CMS Tracker

Biographical sketch

2022-2024Deputy spokesperson, CMS collaboration
2018-2020Physics coordinator, CMS collaboration
2016-2018Co-convener for SUSY searches, CMS collaboration
2014-2015Co-convener for SUSY searches in leptonic topologies, CMS collaboration
2009-2010Co-convenor of the b-tag and vertexing group, CMS collaboration
2006Co-ordinator offline software framework, CMS
2005-2019HEPHY project leader for the CMS physics analysis
2001-2008HEPHY project leader for the DELPHI experiment
2000-2004Convenor of the LEP exotica working group
1998/2000Co-convenor of physics groups (exotica, topological searches), DELPHI experiment
1992/1994CERN research fellow
1986Diploma in physics, Vienna University of Technology

Funding

PI, FWF Principal Investor Project P 33693

Research interests

Direct searches for phenomena beyond the standard model of particle physics with the CMS experiment are at the core of my research interests, in particular those motivated by supersymmetric models. Since the start of the LHC physics project several searches for supersymmetry have been conducted and published in the context of HEPHY's CMS physics analysis project. From mid-2016 to mid-2018 I have been co-convening one of the corresponding physics group of the CMS collaboration.

My second research interest is centered on track and vertex reconstruction in complex events like the ones produced in collisions at the LHC. In close collaboration with HEPHY's algorithm and software development group I have developed important parts of the original CMS track reconstruction code. Related to this activity I have also co-coordinated the CMS group in charge with the identification of b-quark jets.

From September 2018 to August 2020 I was one of the two CMS physics coordinators with the responsibility to define and implement the physics programme of the collaboration. From September 2022 to August 2024 I served as one of the two deputy spokespersons of the CMS collaboration.

Outreach activities

  • visits to CMS for Austrian groups from schools, universities and the general public
  • collaboration with Australian artist Chris Henschke in the context of the art@CMS project

Publications