🔧 Work experience

since 04/2021 Senior Electronics Engineer at Terapet SA, Switzerland. Design and realization of a gamma-ray imaging device to improve accuracy and safety in proton therapy

11/2016 - 04/2021 Senior Electronics Engineer at Lawrence Berkeley Labs, California.

• Upgrade of the master-oscillator and distribution systems. Phase-noise and jitter measurements
• Integration of a new digital LLRF system into the storage ring
• Major upgrades and EPICS integration of the PLC-based control system
• Setting up an archiving server and analysis tools for rapid troubleshooting of faults
• Interlock design for machine and personal protection
• RF measurements (also beam-based) on cavities, stripline-kickers and high power amplifiers
• Contributions to an open-source FPGA carrier board (Marble) and HDL library for accelerator control systems (Bedrock)

01/2014 - 11/2016 Electrical engineer at CERN, Switzerland. LHC Beam Instrumentation group.

• Major upgrades to a Schottky noise beam diagnostic system which measures tune and chromaticity of the LHC bunched proton beam in a non-invasive way

📖 Education

01/2011 - 01/2014 PhD in Electrical Engineering at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology / CERN

• Graduated with summa cum laude.
• ITG-Förderpreis 2015 by the German Association for Electrical, Electronic and Information Technologies (VDE e.V.). Yearly award for outstanding dissertations.

03/2009 - 10/2010 Masters in Electrical Engineering at the Hochschule Karlsruhe, Germany. Specialized on Information and communication technology

⚙️ Previous Projects

In previous projects he worked with

• Large scale, decentralized control systems for accelerators (like EPICS or FESA)
• Industrial Programmable Logic controllers (PLCs) and field-bus interfaces
• Accelerator interlock systems for personal and machine protection
• Microwave receiver front-ends with very low noise and very high dynamic range
• RF feedback systems to control phase and amplitude with high precision and sub-ms latency
• Custom-designed instruments for pulsed RF measurements (amplitude and phase)
• Embedded Linux on Xilinx devices (Debian, Yocto, Buildroot, Docker)
• ADC and DAC interfacing to FPGAs (LVDS, JESD204)
• Low latency signal processing in FPGAs
• Soft-CPU integration in FPGAs (PicoRV32, VexRiscv)
• Embedded software development (Atmega, ESP32, ARM Cortex-M4, RiscV)
• Design of secure and cost-optimized IOT systems (ESP32, MQTT, TLS)
• High-throughput event processing systems for gamma-ray detectors
• Certified radiation protection expert in Switzerland