André Rubbia
Professor
Department of Physics
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich
Switzerland
Biography
Since January 1st, 1998, Andre Rubbia has been Associate Professor and since December 1st, 2003, he has been Full Professor of Experimental Physics at the Institute for Particle Physics at ETH Zurich. He was born in Geneva on August 12, 1966. From 1985 until 1990 he studied physics at the University of Geneva, where he made his diploma thesis within the L3 experiment at the LEP accelerator at CERN (European Laboratory for Nuclear Research). He made his PhD thesis at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, USA, where he graduated with Prof. S.C.C. Ting in 1993. Back at CERN, he worked as a staff member at the neutrino experiment NOMAD. With this experiment he searched for neutrino oscillations to test the heavy neutrino hypothesis.
Research Interest
Elementary particles and their interactions; Neutrino hypothesis
