Frank Tecker

Frank Tecker
Director
Born 1968 in Haan (Germany)
Director of the CERN Accelerator School (CAS) since 2022
At CERN since 1992 as Summer Student, Technical Student, Doctoral Student, Staff member
Lecturing about Linear Colliders and Accelerator Physics
CAS Lecturer since 2009, lecturing in Oxford, CERN summer student lectures, High-School Student Internship Program, International School for Linear Colliders
Student at the CAS in 1994, 1995, and the JAS in 2000
Former Activities:
- Accelerator physicist in the Operations group in the Beams Department at CERN
- Commissioning and operation of the CERN Proton Synchrotron
- R&D for CLIC (Compact Linear Collider) at the CLIC Test Facility CTF3
- Commissioning of the Recycler (Permanent magnet storage ring) at Fermilab, Chicago, IL, USA
- Orbit quality and stability studies at LEP (Large Electron Position Collider) at CERN
Studies/Employment:
1988-94 Physics studies at the RWTH Aachen (Germany), 1-year stay at CERN for work on Diploma thesis in
the Beam Instrumentation group
1994-98 Ph.D. thesis at the RWTH, 3-year stay at CERN for work at LEP
1998-99 Research Associate at Fermilab, Chicago, IL, USA
Work in the Accelerator Division for the Main Injector and Recycler
2000- CERN employee in the Operations group of the Beams Department
Interests:
Volleyball, ski, photography (also at the CAS courses)