Name:
Address for
Eduardo Rodrigues
Correspondence: 262 rue Nelson Mandela
Place of Birth:
Date of Birth:
Lisbon, Portugal
25/06/1972
Telephone:
E-mail address:
01630 Saint-Genis-Pouilly
+41 (0) 76 380 55 57 eduardo.rodrigues@cern.ch Website: cern.ch/eduardo.rodrigues
LEADERSHIP POSITIONS – LHCb EXPERIMENT
01/2014 – present Convener of Physics Working Group on Charmless b-hadron Decays
01/2014 – present Member of the Physics Planning Group
10/2014 – present Coordinator of the Physics Analysis Software Project
06/2012 – 06/2014 Vertex Detector Deputy Project Leader
06/2012 – 06/2014 Member of the Technical Board
03/2013 – 03/2014 Co-convener of 2-body charmless B decays Physics Analysis Group
01/2012 – 02/2013 Co-convener of B2OpenCharm time-dependent Physics Analysis Group
02/2010 – 07/2012 Vertex Detector Software Coordinator
06/2008 – 01/2010 Vertex Detector Data Quality Coordinator
2005 – 2006 Leader of the Track Fitting Group
CURRENT POSITION
10/2012 – present Research Scientist with the University of Cincinnati, U. S. A.
Full-time, based at CERN, Geneva, Switzerland.
EDUCATION and PREVIOUS EMPLOYMENT
10/2012 – 01/2016 Research Fellow (core position) with the University of Manchester, U. K.
Full-time, based at CERN, Geneva, Switzerland.
11/2011 – 09/2012 Honorary Visiting Research Fellow with the University of Manchester, U. K.
09/2007 – 09/2012 Core Research Associate with the University of Glasgow, U. K.
Full-time, based at CERN, Geneva, Switzerland.
09/2004 – 08/2007 Post-doctoral position with NIKHEF, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Full-time, based at CERN.
Development of physics, tracking, and reconstruction software for LHCb.
08/2002 – 07/2004 Marie Curie Fellow at CERN (Fellowship from the European Union), on the
LHCb Experiment, Work on the LHCb Trigger Project. Responsible for the physics optimisation of the first-level trigger.
10/1998 – 06/2002 PhD in Experimental High Energy Physics - University of Bristol, U. K.
Dissertation: Azimuthal Angle Asymmetries of Hadrons and Jets in Deep Inelastic
Scattering at HERA
1994 – 1997
1995 – 1996
1990 – 1994
Until 1990
Master in Theoretical Physics - Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
Master in Physics (DEA, i. e . " Diplôme d’Etudes Approfondies") - Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
Graduation in Physics - Université de Liège, Belgium
High School in Portugal and Belgium with a major in mathematics and science
FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS, INTERNATIONAL RECOGNITION
25/11 – 03/12/2015 Visiting scientist, National Center for Theoretical Sciences (NCTS),
National Tsing Hua University (NTHU), Hsinchu, Taiwan
18/02 – 22/03/2012 Visiting scientist, EPLANET research programme, at the Rio de Janeiro Federal
University (UFRJ), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
08/2002 – 07/2004 Marie Curie Individual Fellowship awarded by the European Union to carry out research at CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
08/1998 – 07/2002 PhD Grant awarded by the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT) ,
Portugal
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1994 – 1996 Master Grant awarded by the Junta Nacional de Investiga ção Científica e
Tecnológica (JNICT) , Portugal
SUMMARY of PUBLICATIONS, SEMINARS and TALKS
About 410 publications including peer-reviewed articles, conference proceedings and experiments notes:
1. In the ZEUS authors list for the period 10/1999 - 08/2003 (49 publications)
2. In the LHCb experiment authors list since mid 2002 (about 290 publications)
Of the published papers, 11 have over 200 citations and 28 have over 100 citations (source: inSPIRE).
A full list can be found at cern.ch/eduardo.rodrigues/publications.html.
A total of 42 conference and workshop presentations, and seminars.
Around 200 talks, in particular at various LHCb meetings related to physics, tracking, trigger, reconstruction and software. A full list can be found at cern.ch/eduardo.rodrigues/talks.html.
INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCE
06/2002 – present Attached at CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
06/1999 – 12/2000 Attached at DESY, Hamburg, Germany, during my PhD
ORGANISATIONAL ROLES
08/2012 – 01/2013 Organising committee for YETI’13: Higgsistence, understanding a 125 GeV signal ,
2006 – 2009 the UK Young Experimentalists and Theorists Institute, 6-9 Jan 2013,
IPPP, Durham, U. K.
Co-convener of the Multi-jet final states and energy flows Working Group for the
2 nd “HERA and the LHC” Workshop (joint CERN-DESY workshops)
REVIEW COMMITTEES
2011 – present
02 – 04/2011
EDITING ROLES
Member of numerous LHCb analysis and paper review committees
Reviewer of 2 CHEP 2010 International Conference proceedings
01/2009 C . Gwenlan, Lönnblad, E. Rodrigues, G. Zanderighi (Eds.), Working Group 2 on
Multi-jet Final States and Energy Flows, Proceedings of the HERA and the LHC –
2 nd Workshop on the implications of HERA for LHC Physics , Hamburg – Geneva,
2006 – 2008
ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES
PhD examinations
2010, 2012 External examiner of 2 PhD thesis (EPFL, Lausanne; Free University, Amsterdam)
Postgraduate teaching
29/02 – 13/03/2012 Invited course on RooFit, a toolkit for data modelling ,
2008 – 2011
Rio de Janeiro Federal University (UFRJ), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
SUPA graduate lectures on CP Violation , given to Scottish Universities PhD students within the framework of SUPA (Scottish Universities Physics Alliance),
2009 – 2012
12 – 18/03/2008
PhD supervision
2005 – present
University of Glasgow
SUPA graduate lectures on
Course
Introduction to Python , University of Glasgow
Introduction to Python, PyRoot and GaudiPython , University of Glasgow
Supervision of PhD students (11) and Master students (1)
Undergraduate teaching
2006 – 2011
1998 – 1999
Supervision of 3 University and CERN Summer students
Demonstrator in the Level 1 Physics Laboratory, University of Bristol
Other teaching
1995 – 1997 Private lessons in Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics at High-School level
(total of around 80 hours)
EXPERIENCE IN GRANT APPLICATIONS
01/2015 Researcher Co-investigator on the Manchester University 5-year Consolidated
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02/2012
03/2009
Grant Proposal
Researcher Co-investigator on the Manchester University 5-year Consolidated
Grant Proposal
Researcher Co-investigator on the Glasgow University 5-year Rolling Grant
Proposal
01/2009 Prepared applications for PhD studentships in High Energy Physics for Glasgow
University Fellowship and SUPA (Scottish Universities Physics Alliance) Fellowship
PARTICIPATION in WORKSHOPS and CONFERENCES
1999 – present 24 participations. Plenary and parallel talks on a broad set of topics.
Conferences include Beauty, CHEP, CKM, DISCRETE, HERA and the LHC,
ICATPP, IoP, Moriond, PASCOS, Vertex.
OUTREACH ACTIVITIES, MEDIA
25/09/2014 Interview on occasion of CERN’s 60 years, radio "Rádio Renascença" of Lisbon
Article in CERN Courier magazine “Charmless baryonic B decays” 09/2013
2008 – present
2006 – present
Press releases for Glasgow University and STFC, related to LHCb (2)
Guided tours of the LHCb experiment cavern at CERN
19/11/2009 Interview with the newspaper Contacto , Luxembourg
MEMBERSHIPS OF PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES
01/2007 – present Member of the Portuguese Physical Society (SPF)
COMPUTING SKILLS
Working experience with UNIX, LINUX and Windows environments.
Very good knowledge of C++, Python.
Very good knowledge of statistics tools such as ROOT, RooFit.
LANGUAGE SKILLS
INTERESTS
Portuguese:
English: mother language fluency
French:
German:
2 nd mother language basic notions
Art, travelling, sailing.
Founded with friends a volleyball club in Arlon, Belgium (1989-1996).
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UNIVERSITY LECTURES and COURSES – details
1. Invited course on RooFit, a toolkit for data modelling ,
Rio de Janeiro Federal University (UFRJ), Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), 29 Feb.-13 March 2012
2. Lectures on Introduction to Python , SUPA (Scottish Universities Physics Alliance) graduate lectures to Scottish Universities PhD students, Glasgow (U.K.), 16-31 January 2012
3. Lectures on CP Violation , SUPA graduate lectures to Scottish Universities PhD students, Glasgow
(U.K.), 18 January-1 February 2011
4. Lectures on Introduction to Python , SUPA graduate lectures, Glasgow, 17-24 January 2011
5. Lectures on CP Violation , SUPA graduate lectures, Glasgow, 11-25 January 2010
6. Lectures on Introduction to Python , SUPA graduate lectures, Glasgow, 11-22 January 2010
7. Lectures on CP Violation , SUPA graduate lectures, Glasgow, 12-26 January 2009
8. Lectures on Introduction to Python , SUPA graduate lectures, Glasgow, 12-23 January 2009
9. Course Introduction to Python, PyRoot and GaudiPython ,
University of Glasgow, 12-18 March 2008
10. Lectures on CP Violation , SUPA graduate lectures, Glasgow, 14-25 January 2008
PARTICIPATIONS at CONFERENCES, WORKSHOPS – details
1. Hadronic B decays ,
FPCP 2015 - 13 th Conference on Flavor Physics and CP Violation, Nagoya (Japan), 25-29 May 2015
2. 2 nd SHiP Workshop, CERN, Geneva (Switzerland), 24-25 September 2014
3. Prospects of time dependent CP violation with the LHCb upgrade ,
CKM 2014 - 8 th International Workshop on the CKM Unitarity Triangle, Vienna (Austria), 8-12
September 2014
4. Fir st SHiP Workshop, Universität Zürich (Switzerland), 10-12 June 2014
5. Summary of flavour physics results ,
PASCOS 2013 – 19 th International Symposium on Particles, Strings and Cosmology,
Taipei (Taiwan), 20-26 November 2013
6. Performance and operational aspects of LHCb’s VELO and ST ,
Vertex 2013 – 22 nd International Workshop on Vertex Detectors, Lake Starnberg (Germany), 16-20
September 2013
7. LHCb Status and Latest Physics Results , 4 th International Workshop "High Energy Physics in the
LHC Era", Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, Valparaíso (Chile),
4-10 January 2012
8. Studies of Hadronic B Decays with Early LHCb Data ,
DISCRETE 2010 – Symposium on Prospects in the Physics of Discrete Symmetries, Sapienza
University of Rome (Italy), 6-11 December 2010
9. A novel approach to detector calibration parameter determination and detector monitoring ,
CHEP 2010 – 18 th International Conference on Computing in High Energy and Nuclear Physics,
Academia Sinica, Taipei (Taiwan), 18-22 October 2010
10. The LHCb experiment at the LHC: presentation and first results ,
Física 2010 – 17 a Conferência Nacional de Física (Annual Meeting of the Portuguese Physical
Society), Vila Real (Portugal), 1-3 September 2010
11. Results from the first beam-induced reconstructed tracks in the LHCb Vertex Locator ,
11 th ICATPP Conference on Astroparticle, Particle, Space Physics, Detectors and Medical Physics
Applications, Villa Olmo, Como (Italy), 5-9 October 2009
12. Impact of misalignments on beauty Physics at LHCb , LHC Detector Alignment Workshop,
CERN, Geneva (Switzerland), 15-16 June 2009
13. The LHCb track fitting concept and its performance , CHEP 2009 – 17 th International Conference on
Computing in High Energy and Nuclear Physics,
Prague (Czech Republic), 21-27 March 2009
14. Prospects for B → hh at LHCb, CKM 2008 – 5 th International Workshop on the CKM Unitarity
Triangle, Rome (Italy), 9-13 Sept. 2008
15. Plenary summary of WG2 on multi-jet final states and energy flows, experimental contributions,
HERA and the LHC – 4 th Workshop on the implications of HERA for LHC Physics, CERN, Geneva
(Switzerland), 26-30 May 2008
16. The LHCb Trigger System, Beauty 2006 – 11 th International Conference on B-Physics at Hadron
Machines, Keble College, University of Oxford (U.K.), 25-29 Sept. 2006
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17. Physics Studies and Track Reconstruction in LHCb at NIKHEF , NIKHEF Jaarvergadering (Annual
Meeting), NIKHEF, Amsterdam (The Netherlands), 21-22 December 2005
18. Forward Studies with Cascade at LHC Energies , HERA and the LHC – a Workshop on the implications of HERA for LHC Physics, DESY, Hamburg (Germany), 21-24 March 2005
19. LHCb sensitivity to

with B s
→ D s
K,
Physics at LHC Conference, Vienna (Austria), 13-17 July 2004
20. Forward Jets at LHC(b ), (5min advert talk), HERA and the LHC – a Workshop on the implications of
HERA for LHC Physics, CERN, Geneva (Switzerland), 26-27 March 2004
21. Jet Physics and Event Shape Studies at HERA , XXXVII th Rencontres de Moriond on QCD and
Hadronic Interactions, Les Arcs, Savoie (France), 16-23 March 2002
22. Azimuthal Asymmetries in Neutral Current Deep Inelastic Scattering ,
Annual Conference of the Institute of Physics (IoP) High Energy Physics Group,
University of Southamptom (U.K.), 3-5 April 2001
23. The Monte Carlo Event Generator ARIADNE at high Q 2 ,
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL) Summer School for Young High Energy Physicists,
Cosener’s House, Abingdon (U.K), 29 Aug.-10 Sept. 1999
24. Traditional vs new treatment at high Q 2 for Ariadne , Workshop on Monte Carlo Generators for HERA
Physics, DESY, Hamburg (Germany), 1-5 Feb. 1999
COLLOQUIA, SEMINARS – full list
1. Highlight of recent LHCb results and future prospects , Seminar, National Center for Theoretical
Sciences (NCTS), National Tsing Hua University (NTHU), Hsinchu (Taiwan), 30 November 2015
2. Charm-less decays of beauty-full hadrons - highlights and outlook , Seminar,
Laboratoire de Physique Nucléaire et des Hautes Energies (LPNHE), Paris (France), 2 March 2015
3. Beauty-full antimatter – a view from the mirror ,
Particle Physics Seminar, University of Bristol (U.K.), 21 July 2014
4. Towards

with a time-dependent analysis of the B s
→ D s
K decay at LHCb , High Energy Physics
Seminar, University of Manchester (U.K.), 1 February 2013
5. Searching for Lepton Flavour Violation , Particle Physics Seminar, Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas
Físicas (CBPF), Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), 16 March 2012
6. The LHCb Flavour Physics Experiment - Status and Physics Results Overview ,
Physics Departmental Colloquium at the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Rio de
Janeiro (Brazil), 15 March 2012
7. Searching for Lepton Flavour Violation , Particle Physics Seminar,
University of Bristol (U.K), 8 February 2012
8. LHCb Status and Physics – a Hadronic Perspective , Particle Physics Seminar, University of Liverpool
(U.K), 7 December 2011
9. Hadronic B Decays at LHCb: status and prospects , Particle Physics Seminar,
Centre for Theoretical Particle Physics (CFTP), Instituto Superior Técnico (IST),
Lisbon (Portugal), 12 May 2011
10. Hadronic B Decays at LHCb: status and prospects , Particle Physics Seminar, University of Zürich
(Switzerland), 20 April 2011
11. The LHCb Flavour Physics Experiment , Departmental Colloquium,
Akademia Gornicza-Hutnicza, University of Science and Technology,
Krakow (Poland), 4 March 2011
12. Hadronic B Decays at LHCb , High Energy Physics Seminar, LPHE, EPFL,
Lausanne, (Switzerland), 20 December 2010
13. The Why, How and Where of Lepton Flavour Violation , Particle Physics Seminar, Nikhef, Amsterdam
(The Netherlands), 9 February 2010
14. The Why, How and Where of Lepton Flavour Violation , Particle Physics Experimental Group Seminar,
University of Glasgow (U.K.), 14 January 2010
15. Lepton flavour violation: status and prospects , Particle Physics Seminar,
University of Manchester (U.K.), 2 December 2009
16. Matière et antimatière – de la cosmologie aux particules élémentaires ,
C olloquium « Les Jeudis des Sciences », University of Luxembourg (Luxembourg),
19 November 2009
17. Highlights from CKM 2008 , Particle Physics Experimental Group Seminar,
University of Glasgow (U.K.), 2 October 2008
18. LHCb: a stroll from Trigger to Physics , Seminar, CPPM, Marseille (France), 4 May 2007
19. Using Python in LHCb , B-Physics Seminar,
NIKHEF, Amsterdam (The Netherlands), 13 June 2006
20. The Trigger System of LHCb , B-Physics Seminar,
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NIKHEF, Amsterdam (The Netherlands), 18 June 2004
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