13 Dec '13

VUB professor chairs Nobel Prize experiment at Cern

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VUB physics professor Jorgen D’Hondt is the new chair of the CMS experiment at Cern, the European laboratory for high-energy physics in Switzerland

 

Jorgen D’Hondt will lead the CMS project in Switzerland

Jorgen D’Hondt, a physics professor at the Free University Brussels (VUB), has been chosen as the new chair of the CMS experiment at Cern – the European laboratory for high-energy physics in Switzerland. The CMS experiment led to the discovery of the Higgs particle, for which the Belgian scientist François Englert and his colleague Peter Higgs recently received the Nobel Prize for Physics.

D’Hondt is also director of the Interuniversity Institute for High Energy (IIHE) at the VUB and its French-speaking counterpart ULB. He furthermore heads the Young Academy in Belgium, an initiative of the Royal Flemish Academy of Arts and Sciences, which supports interdisciplinary work. The non-profit World Economic Forum selected D’Hondt as its “Young Scientist 2013”, one of the 40 best scientists under the age of 40.

For the next two-and-a-half years, D’Hondt will lead the CMS board of directors, which unites 183 institutions from 43 countries and counts about 4,300 members.

VUB professor has been chosen as new chair of CMS experiment at the Cern laboratory for high-energy physics in Switzerland.

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Free University of Brussels (VUB)

The VUB was established as a spin-off of the French-speaking Université Libre de Bruxelles in the 1960s. It’s an internationally oriented and liberal institution, and the only Dutch-speaking university in the capital.
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St V - Every year, students honour university founder Pierre Theodore Verhaegen in a festive, booze-filled “St V” march through the city.
Campus - The VUB is the only Dutch-speaking university with a small, American-style green campus.
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Master’s programmes offered

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