BIO
Mar Capeáns holds a PhD in Physics from the University of Santiago de Compostela (Spain) and an MBA in Management of Technology from École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), the University of Lausanne (UNIL-HEC) (Switzerland) and McCombs School of Business (Texas, USA).
She joined CERN in 1992 to do her doctoral thesis in the Detector Development Group of Georges Charpak, who that same year won the Nobel Prize in Physics. After six years working on R&D projects to find appropriate detection technologies for the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) experiments, in 1998 she participated in the design, construction and tuning of a tracking detector for the HERA-B experiment in DESY (Germany).
In 2000, she returned to CERN and in 2001 joined CERN’s scientific staff as part of the ATLAS experiment at the LHC, where she contributed to the design, development and construction of the tracking detector. In 2005 she joined the CERN Detection Technology Group, which she led until 2017. She currently leads the Project and Planning Group of the Technology Department at CERN.
She has participated in the design and management of technological projects co-financed by the European Community and coordinated by CERN, such as the SLHC-PP or the Marie Curie networks TALENT and STREAM, both focused on the development of novel particle detectors. She has published more than 450 scientific articles in the fields of high-energy physics and instrumentation.