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General Information

Full Name Efe Yazgan
Languages English, French, Turkish

Academic Interests

  • high-energy physics; top quark; standard model; Higgs boson; physics generators and modelling; calorimetry; high energy astrophysics, computational physics

Experience

  • 2007 - present
    User full time based at CERN
    CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
  • 2020 - present
    Assistant Fellow
    National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
  • 2016 - 2020
    Postdoctoral researcher
    Institute of High Energy Physics (IHEP), China
  • 2011 - 2016
    Postdoctoral researcher
    University of Ghent (UGent), Ghent, Belgium
  • 2007 - 2011
    Postdoctoral research associate
    Texas Tech University (TTU), Lubbock, TX, USA
  • 2005 - 2007
    Guest scientist and software developer
    Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab), Batavia, IL, USA
  • 2000 - 2005
    Teaching and research assistant
    Middle East Tehnical University (METU), Ankara, Turkey

Convenership/Coordinator/Leader Positions

  • 2020 - present
    Group Leader, Extra Yukawa Couplings and New Higgs Bosons Searches in the National Taiwan University
  • 2020 - 2023
    Convener, High Energy Physics Software Foundation (HSF) Physics Generators
  • 2017 - 2019
    Level 2 Convener, CMS Physics Generators
  • 2016 - 2017
    Level 3 Convener, CMS Physics Comparisons and Generator Tunes
  • 2015 - 2017
    Level 3 Convener, CMS Top Quark Event Modelling and Generators
  • 2013 - 2014
    Level 3 convener, CMS Top Quark Properties Group
  • 2010 - 2011
    Level 3 convener, CMS Electroweak Dilepton Group
  • 2009 - 2011
    Group leader, CMS Hadron Calorimeter (HCAL) Data Certification
  • 2008 - 2009
    Group leader, CMS HCAL Prompt Analysis Group
  • 2004
    Coordinator, METU Freshman Physics Laboratory (mechanics and electronics) Coordinator
  • 2000 - 2002
    Coordination of Installation/commissioning, METU Computer Assisted Freshmen Physics Laboratory (mechanics and electronics)

Contact Person in CMS at CERN

  • 2021 - present
    Harmonization of Modeling Systematic Uncertainties in Top Quark Measurements between ATLAS and CMS in the TOP LHC Working Group
  • 2019 - present
    Event simulation sample verification script contact
  • 2019 - 2023
    HSF Physics Generators Working Group CMS Contact person
  • 2014 - 2019
    Top quark conference contact person
  • 2010
    Calorimeter noise contact person in V+Jets group
  • 2009 - 2011
    Physics Validation team contact person for HCAL
  • 2007 - 2009
    HCAL contact person for global runs
  • 2007 - 2008
    HCAL contact person for Particle Flow groups [Fermilab/CERN]
  • 2007 - 2008
    Data reconstruction and transfer for ECAL+HCAL Test beam [Fermilab/CERN]

Awards and Scholarships

Reviewer, Committees, Consultant/Scientific Advisory, Conference and Workshop tasks

Additional Funding/Projects

  • 2021 - 2023
    • Principal Investigator of Search for new Yukawa couplings at the LHC with heavy quarks, Taiwan Ministry of Science and Technology Grant 110-2112-M-002-017
  • 2018 - 2021
    • MC Observer to COST Action Vector Boson Scattering Action Network COST Action CA16108 representing Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
  • 2015 - 2018
    • Consultant for Free electron distribution in the Galaxy, distances to pulsars and magnetic fields of neutron stars, TUBITAK
  • 2014 - 2017
    • Researcher for Electroweak and standard model physics analyses with CMS data in Precision measurements of the standard model and searches for beyond standard model physics and supersymmetry, TAEA
  • 2004
    • Assistant Researcher in Carbon nanotoroid and nanohelix cage structures; mechanical and electronic properties, METU, BAP-2004-07-02-00-35

Shifts in CMS at CERN

  • 2009 - 2019
    • Data Quality Monitoring (DQM) Expert on call
  • 2007 - 2009
    • Hadron Calorimeter (HCAL)

Education

  • 2007
    PhD
    METU, Ankara, Turkey with Host Laboratory Fermilab, Batavia, IL, USA
    • Search for a Standard Model Higgs boson in CMS via vector boson fusion in the H->WW->lvlv channel and optimization of energy reconstruction in CMS using test beam 2006 data
  • 2002
    MSc
    METU, Ankara, Turkey
    • Timing Characteristics of Intermediate Polar Type Cataclysmic Variables and Detailed Data Analysis on YY Draconis
  • 2000
    BSc
    METU, Ankara, Turkey
    • Special undergraduate advanced physics program

Other Interests

  • Hobbies: Hobby 1, Hobby 2, etc.