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General Information
Full Name | Efe Yazgan |
Languages | English, French, Turkish |
Academic Interests
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high-energy physics; top quark; standard model; Higgs boson; physics generators and modelling; calorimetry; high energy astrophysics, computational physics
Publications
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
- 2018
- Outstanding Contribution in Reviewing, Physics Letters B
- 2004
- Ph.D. Scholarship (BDP) from the Scientific and Technical Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK)
- 2000 - 2002
- M.Sc. basic sciences scholarship from TUBITAK
Reviewer, Committees, Consultant/Scientific Advisory, Conference and Workshop tasks
- 2012 - present
- CMS Analysis Review Committees for > 20 Top, Standard Model measurements, Higgs, new physics searches, and event modeling studies
- 2023
- Reviewer for the journal Physics of the Dark Universe
- Reviwer for QEIOS for an astrophysics preprint
- Co-organizer of the HSF (High Energy Physics Software Foundation) Event Generator Tuning Workshop fully remote meeting, 27-28 June 2023.
- 2022
- Book reviewer for CRC press - Routledge
- Co-organizer, MC4EIC 2022 Online workshop on Monte Carlo event simulation for the EIC organized by the CTEQ collaboration, the EIC User Group, the HEP Software Foundation (HSF), and MCnet, 16-18 November 2022.
- 2021
- Chair, Standard Model Physics at the TeV Scale (parallel session) in PANIC2021 Online Conference, 5 September 2021.
- 2017 - 2020
- Reviewer for the journal Physics Letters B
- 2020
- Co-organizer, High Energy Physics Software Foundation (HSF) Worldwide LHC Computing Grid (WLGC) Virtual Workshop, 19-24 November 2020.
- Convener, High Energy Physics Software Foundation (HSF) Worldwide LHC Computing Grid (WLGC) Virtual Workshop , Event Generation Session, 19-24 November 2020.
- 2019 - 2020
- Reviewer for the journal European Physical Journal C
- 2019
- Local organizing committee member, 12th International Workshop on Top Quark Physics (TOP2019) , 22-27 September 2019, Beijing, China.
- 2018
- Chair, FCNC and EFT (indirect searches) (plenary session) in the 11th International Workshop on Top Quark Physics (TOP2018), 16-21 September 2018 Bad Neuenahr, Germany.
- CMS Oganizing Committee and Convener of the Simulation Session in CMS Heavy Flavour Tagging Workshop , 11-13 April 2018, Brussels, Belgium.
- Member of the jury for the PhD thesis of Deniz Poyraz [Ghent University]
- 2015-2018
- Consultant for the project Free electron distribution in the Galaxy, distances to pulsars, and magnetic field of neutron stars (TUBITAK)
- 2016
- Convener, Theory and Modelling Session in TOP@100 fb-1 Workshop, 8-9 November 2016, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland.
- 2015
- Member of the jury and the reading committee for the Ph.D. thesis of Kelly Beernaert [Ghent University]
- Scientific advisor for the turkish translation of the book Albert Einstein and Relativity for Kids
- 2013
- Operations research committee member for Izmir High Energy Physics Workshop; New Physics at the LHC and Turkey-CERN relations
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.