Prize 2010

The CHIPP Prize for the best PhD student in experimental or theoretical particle physics was awarded for the third time. Out of three candidates and following the normal procedure, the CHIPP Board selected Alexander Kish from University of Zurich. The laudation says: “For his excellent experimental work and original contributions in the field of direct dark matter detection“.

Alexander Kish joined the group of Laura Baudis at University of Zurich in January 2007. Prior to this he has worked at International Sakharov Environmental University and Belarusian National Academy of Science in Minsk, in the fields of nuclear physics, spin chemistry and radio-ecology. Since he was fascinated by dark matter research, he decided to move to Aachen, and then Zurich, and work on the XENON experiment. He has started to learn liquid scintillator and light detection techniques with XENON10 project, contributed to design and construction of the XENON100 detector, and currently working on PMT characterization, Monte Carlo simulations, and data analysis, aiming to finish PhD study in 2010.

At the CHIPP Plenary session 2010 in Gersau (23 August 2010), one of the CHIPP Vice-Chairs (Tatsuya Nakada), stepping in for Klaus Kirch (the CHIPP Prize responsible), hands over the diploma and the prize to the happy winner Alexander Kish (Photo JPR)
Presentation

Previous prize winners :

2009 Pedro Schwaller, University of Zurich
For his deep understanding of quantum field theory and his important and original contributions to theoretical particle physics.
Presentation at the CHIPP plenary (25 August 2009)

2008 Michael Rissi, ETH Zurich
For his excellent experimental work and original contributions in the field of gamma-ray astrophysics.
Presentation at the CHIPP plenary (8 September 2008)

Updated : C. Blanchard, 15.03.2010