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Young High Energy Physicists Association

About Us

In order to organise a meaningful and significant impact of young scientists on today’s and tomorrow’s decision processes in particle, astroparticle, hadron, nuclear and accelerator physics, a coordination of interests among young scientists on a national level is essential.

A management board represents the association to other committees / bodies as well as to the public. These are the current elected members of the Management Board of the yHEP association:

Michael Lupberger
Lupberger
(Representative at KET)
2020 -- present: Marie Curie Fellow/PostDoc, Universität Bonn
2019 -- 2020: Postdoctoral researcher/deputy project leader, Universität Bonn
2016 -- 2019: Postdoctoral researcher fellow at CERN
2010 -- 2016: PhD in detector physics, Universität Bonn
2004 -- 2010: M.Sc. in physics, U. Freiburg,
CEA Saclay, and U. of Aberdeen, Scotland
Ruth Magdalena Jacobs
Jacobs
(Deputy representative at KET)
2019 -- present day Postdoctoral Fellow, DESY Hamburg
2015 -- 2019 PhD in Physics, Universität Bonn, supported by ATLAS PhD Grant
2014 -- 2015 M.Sc. in Physics, Universität Bonn
Srijan Sehgal
Sehgal
(Representative at KAT)
2020 -- present: PhD in astroparticle physics at Bergische Universität Wuppertal
2017 -- 2019: M.Sc. in Physics at Universität Bonn
2014 -- 2017: B.Sc. with Honours in Physics at Hindu College, University of Delhi
Leonel Morejon
Morejon
(Deputy representative at KAT)
2021 -- present: Postdoc in the astroparticle physics, BUW, Wuppertal
2017 -- 2020: PhD in theoretical astroparticle physics at DESY Zeuthen
2015 -- 2017: Applied Physicist in ELI-Beamlines laser facility, Prague
2012 -- 2014: Marie Curie Fellow at CERN
2005 -- 2012: B.Sc. & M.Sc. in Nuclear Physics, InSTEC Havana, Cuba
Farah Afzal
Afzal
(Representative at KHuK, chair of the yHEP MB)
2023: Research scholar at the College of William & Mary; Jefferson Lab, Hall D, GlueX experiment
2019 -- now: Postdoc at Universität Bonn
2013 -- 2019: PhD in hadron physics at Universität Bonn
2010 -- 2012: M.Sc. in Physics at Universität Bonn
2007 -- 2010: B.Sc. in Physics at Universität Bonn
Meike Küßner
Küßner
(Deputy representative at KHuK, co-chair of the yHEP MB)
2022 -- now: Postdoctoral researcher Ruhr-Universität Bochum
2018 -- 2022: PhD at Ruhr-Universität Bochum
2016 -- 2018: M.Sc. in physics at Ruhr-Universität Bochum
2013 -- 2016: B.Sc. in physics and bachelor of arts in mathematics
at Ruhr-Universität Bochum
Felipe Peña
Peña
(Representative at KfB)
2020 -- present: PhD at Universität Hamburg and DESY
2018 -- 2020: M.Sc. Physics (Applied and Engineering Physics), Technical University of Munich
2013 -- 2018: B.Sc. Engineering Science, Technical University of Munich
Dima El Khechen
El Khechen
(Deputy representative at KfB)
2019 -- present: Postdoc at KIT
2017 -- 2019: Postdoctoral fellow at CERN and an invited scientist at KEK in Tsukuba, Japan
Young investigator award 2018 from Toshiko Yuasa France-Japan Particle Physics Laboratory
2013 -- 2016: PhD in accelerator physics at the University of Paris-Saclay, Paris, France
2012 -- 2013 : M.Sc. in high energy physics at the University of Paris-Saclay, Paris, France
2008 -- 2012: B.Sc. in fundamental physics at the Lebanese University, Beirut, Lebanon