About
Enthusiastic physicist applying science to literally all my endeavours.
Applied researcher with 5+ years of experience in building an exceptional foundation of knowledge and relationships in the radiation effects community. Versed in collaborating effectively with cross-functional colleagues on internal and external teams.
An adaptable and responsible recent PhD graduate, having an open mind and an intense desire to know more by each passing day. Particularly eager to take on the challenges of building a career and apply my knowledge both outside and within the boundaries of physics academia.
Resume
Education
Doctor of Science in Applied Physics
Oct 2021 - Jan 2025
Technical University of MunichMunich, Germany
PhD Thesis: Study of the radiation background and of new monitoring tools at the LHC for Run3 and the HL-LHC.
Wolfgang Gentner Scholarship recipient: full funding for 3 years of PhD studies.
Master of Science in Applied Engineering Physics
Oct 2018 - Aug 2021
Technical University of MunichMunich, Germany
Master Thesis (Grade 1.0): Comparison between measured radiation levels and FLUKA simulations at CHARM and in the LHC tunnel of P1-5 within the R2E project in Run 2.
Overall GPA: 2.03.
High Energy Physics courses: Concept for Future Hadron Collider Experiments (1+2), Computational Physics (1+2), Physics at the Large Hadron Collider Seminar, Advanced Programming
Bachelor of Science in Physics
Sep 2015 - Jun 2018
Jacobs University Bremen Bremen, Germany
Bachelor Thesis (Grade 1.33): Canonical quantization procedures and the time-energy uncertainty relation.
President's List. Overall GPA: 1.24.
Advanced courses: Particles and Fields, General Relativity, Solid State ELectronic Devices, Advanced QUantum Physics
High School Diploma
Sep 2011 - Jun 2015
Eudoxiu Hurmuzachi National CollegeRadauti, Romania
Natural life sciences class. Focus on: Physics, Mathematics, Chemistry.
Professional Experience
PostDoctoral Researcher (GRAP QUEST)
European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN)
Geneva, Switzerland
Sep 2024 - To Date
Radiation to Electronics (R2E) collaboration
- Deployment of a novel Timepix3 radiation monitor for R2E applications at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC).
- Monte Carlo simulations (FLUKA) for the radiation environment for High Luminosity (HL-LHC) at IP1 (ATLAS) and IP5 (CMS).
Doctoral Student
European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN)
Geneva, Switzerland
Oct 2021 - Aug 2024
Radiation to Electronics (R2E) collaboration
- Characterization and calibration of a Timepix3 based detector for R2E applications.
- Test beams for: neutrons, protons, alphas and gammas.
- Radiation monitoring at: IR4 (Beam Gas instruments), IR8 (LHCb cavern), IR1 (SND experiment).
- Monte Carlo simulations (FLUKA) for the radiation environment in the LHC tunnel,
focusing on the areas around IR4, in order to perform energy deposition and radiation effects studies.
- Beam Gas Vertex (BGV) demonstrator operation from LHC Run 2 (2015-2018) and possibly for HL-LHC.
- Beam Gas Curtain (BGC) demonstrator operation from LHC Run 3 (2022-to date) and possibly for HL-LHC.
Technical Student
European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN)
Geneva, Switzerland
Jun 2020 - Aug 2021
Radiation to Electronics (R2E) collaboration
- Monte Carlo simulations for the radiation environment in the LHC tunnel, focusing on the areas around the high-luminosity experiments.
- Data Analysis for several Radiation Monitors (BLMs, RadMONs, Optical Fibre).
- Benchmark studies between FLUKA and Measured data at LHC and CHARM.
Research Assistant - Part Time
University of Suceava
Suceava, Romania
April 2020 - to date
CERN LHCb Collaboration Romania
- Data analysis between the simulated results and measured data from HEPdata.
Research Assistant - Part Time
Technical University of Munich (TUM)
Munich, Germany
Nov 2019 - Apr 2020
Institute for Hadronic Structure and Fundamental Symmetries - Part Time (7.5 hrs/week)
- Implementation of a novel method of analysis to the decay of B-mesons at Belle.
Oct 2019 - Apr 2020
Strongly Correlated Electron Systems Research Group - Part Time (7.5 hrs/week)
- Development of simulation libraries (in Python) for magnetic fields in neutron scattering experimental setups.
Working Student
ChargeX
Munich, Germany
Oct 2018 - Jun 2019
Software Engineering Department - Part Time (20 hrs/week)
- Programmed micro-controllers for electric vehicles charging stations.
- Written emulation libraries (in Python) for software and hardware testing.
Supervision
Bachelor Thesis
CERN Summer Students
- 3. Emanuela Revani (2024): Timepix3 radiation monitor at SND - muon rate from IP
- 2. Jakub Maly (2024): Computing conversion coefficients between different quantities used for radiation measurements at the CERN accelerator complex
- 1. Helena Grete Lillepalu (2022): Analysis of the mixed-field radiation environment at CHARM using FLUKA
Teaching Experience
Teaching Assistant
Technical University of Munich Munich, Germany
Mar 2024
- Basic Physics Lab Course
Oct 2018
- Pre-course Mathematics for Management and Technology.
Instructor
Jacobs University Bremen Bremen, Germany
Jan 2018
- MINTernational Physics Workshop: Quantum Physics: Foundations and Future.
- Fully designed and presented a one-week workshop for high school students.
Teaching Assistant
Jacobs University Bremen Bremen, Germany
Oct 2016 - May 2018
- Spring 2018: Quantum Mechanics, Applied Dynamical Systems.
- Fall 2017: Analytical Mechanics, Elements of Probability and Stochastic Processes.
- Spring 2017: Modern Physics.
- Fall 2016: Classical Physics.
Summer Student Internships
European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN)
Geneva, Switzerland
Jun - Sep 2019
Reusable Analysis (REANA) project
IT-CDA-DR: Information Technology - Collaboration, Devices & Applications - Digital Repositories
- Carried out Data Analysis and implemented workflows for reproducibility.
- Software Development for the Reusable Analysis project.
- Final Report.
Helsinki Institute of Physics (HIP)
Helsinki, Finland
Jun - Aug 2018
Novel Instrumentation for Nuclear Safety, Security and Safeguards
Project: Spent Fuel from Nuclear Reactors: Gamma Ray Image Analysis.
- Learnt about nuclear physics with applications in reactors.
- Developed an image/location reconstruction algorithm from a Geγ-ray imager.
- Developed data analysis packages for the extracted signals.
- Final Report.
National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering - Horia Hulubei (NIPNE-HH)
Bucharest, Romania
Jun - Aug 2017
Department of Theoretical Physics
Project: Quantum Foundations and Quantum Information Technology.
- Reviewed the development and the different interpretations of Quantum Mechanics.
- Compared the proposed quantum computing implementations.
National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering - Horia Hulubei (NIPNE-HH)
Bucharest, Romania
Jun - Aug 2016
Project: Counting Rate Performance Study of Transition Radiation Detectors (TRDs).
- Gained understanding of high energy physics phenomenology for particle detectors.
- Carried out data analysis using the ROOT package and operated TRDs.
- Investigated TRD’s adequacy for the upcoming Compressed Baryonic Matter (CBM) at FAIR@GSI.
- Final Report.
The League of Romanian Student Aboard / Liga Studentilor Romani din Strainatate
(LSRS)
Jury Board member
Oct 2022 - Oct 2023
Vice-President for all Branches
Sep 2021 - Aug 2022
Main Organizer for the LSRS Gala
April 2024
Founder and Chair of the LSRS Branch in Switzerland
Jun 2020 - Sep 2021
Member of the LSRS Branch in Germany
Dec 2018 - Jun 2020
Undergraduate Student Government
Jacobs University Bremen Bremen, Germany
Elected Student Representative and Member of the Academic Board of the Academic Affairs Committee
Nov 2017 - Jun 2018
Chair of the Academic Affairs Committee
Sep 2017 - Jun 2018
Member of the Academic Affairs Committee
March 2015 - Jun 2018
Student Clubs
Jacobs University Bremen Bremen, Germany
Founder & Chief Editor - Jacobs University Student Newspaper
Nov 2017 - Jun 2018
Founder & President - Jacobs Physics Student Society
Jan 2016 - Jun 2018
Skills
Operating Systems
LinuxAdvanced
WindowsModerate
Programming Languages
PythonAdvanced
BashModerate
C++ (ROOT)Basic
HTML5Basic
Dev Ops, Versioning & cloud
GitAdvanced
DockerModerate
Languages
RomanianNative
EnglishProficient
GermanAdvanced
SpanishBasic
FrenchBasic
International experience
Conferences
14th International Particle Accelerator Conference (IPAC23)
Received one of 20 Student Grants for participation Venice, Italy
May 2023
Radiation and its Effects on Components and Systems (RADECS) 2021
Received one of 5 Student Grants for participation Vienna, Austria
Sep 2021
Sep 2017
Schools
EURIZON Detector School
Wuppertal, Germany
July 2023
18th International School on the Effects of Radiation on Embedded Systems for Space Applications (SERESSA)
Geneva, Switzerland
Dec 2022
CERN Accelerator School (CAS) - Introductory
Kaunas, Lithuania
Sep 2021
Workshops
European Association for International Education
Geneva, Switzerland
Sep 2018
International Conference of Physics Students
Helsinki, Finland
Aug 2018
RTG Models of Gravity Workshop
Bremen, Germany
Feb 2018
LHCb implications and future prospects Workshop
Geneva, Switzerland
Nov 2017
Talks and Posters
Posters
- Low beam intensity raster scan measurements with the Timepix3 at CNA., IWORID 2024
July 2024
- Radiation levels from a beam gas curtain instrument at the LHC at CERN., IPAC 2024
May 2024
- Comparison between Run 2 SEU measurements and FLUKA simulations in the CERN LHC tunnel and shielded alcoves around IP1/5., IPAC 2023
May 2023
- Radiation levels produced by the operation of the Beam Gas Vertex monitor in the LHC tunnel at IR4 , IPAC 2023
May 2023
- Radiation levels produced by the operation of the Beam Gas Vertex monitor in the LHC tunnel at IR4 , SERESSA 2022
Dec 2022
- Comparison Between Run 2 TID Measurements and FLUKA Simulations in the CERN LHC Tunnel of the Atlas Insertion Region, IPAC 2022
June 2022
- Benchmark between Measured and Simulated Radiation Level Data at the Mixed-Field CHARM Facility at CERN, RADECS 2021
Sep 2021
- Bound States in the Continuum, Skills Course JUB
Feb 2018
Talks
- Search for a heavy Higgs boson
decaying into a Z boson and another heavy Higgs boson in the llbb final state in pp collisions at
√s = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector
Dec 2019
- The Reusable Analysis Project at CERN
Aug 2019
- A Toy Model of Quantum Gravity
May 2018
- Bound States in the Continuum
Feb 2018
- A Simplified Derivation of the Hawking Radiation from the Unruh Effect
Nov 2017
- A Short History of Particle Detectors
Mar 2017
- Transition Radiation Detectors in High Counting Rate Regimes
Aug 2016
Outreach
Public Speaker
LHCb masterclasses
2021
How CERN exploded but the world did not end
Dec 2019
Quantum Love - First Prize Jacobs University STEM Slam
May 2018
Organizer
Modern Mathematics - International Summer School
Feb 2018
Volunteer
Physics for Refugees (Physik für Flüchtlinge)
Dec 2015, 2016, 2017
Awards
Values for Radauti
Education achievements - Dec 2015
Scholarships
Publications
First Author
Peer-review
- D. Prelipcean, G. Lerner, I. Slipukhin, D. Lucsanyi, H. Sandberg, J. Storey, P. Martin-Holgado, A. Romero-Maestre, Y. Morilla Garcia, R. Garcia Alia.
Towards a Timepix3 Radiation Monitor for the Accelerator Mixed Radiation Field: Characterisation with Protons and Alphas from 0.6 MeV to 5.6 MeV.
in Applied Sciences 14, no. 2: 624, January 2024. DOI: 10.3390/app14020624. Full text - D. Prelipcean, G. Lerner, R. Garcia Alia, K. Bilko, A. Infantino, D. Di Francesca, J. Trummer, D. Ricci, M. Brucoli, and S. Danzeca.
Benchmark between measured and simulated radiation level data at the mixed-field CHARM facility at CERN.
in IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, Vol. 69, No. 7, July 2022. DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2022.3169756. Full text
Conference proceedings
- D. Prelipcean, G. Lerner, A. Ciccotelli, F. Cerutti, A. Zimmaro, R. Garcia Alia, J. Storey.
Measurement of the transversal Muon Rate at the proposed CODEX-b experiment with the Timepix3 Radiation Monitor
in JACoW IPAC2025 (2025). DOI: 10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2025-TUPG004. Full text - D. Prelipcean, G. Lerner, R. Garcia Alia, G. Scheiner, D. Butti, O. Sedlacek, R. Veness, C. Castro Sequeiro, M. Ady.
Radiation levels from a Beam Gas Curtain instrument at the LHC at CERN during ion operation
in JACoW IPAC2025 (2025). DOI: 10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2025-TUPG007. Full text - D. Prelipcean, G. Lerner, R. Garcia Alia, G. Scheiner, O. Sedlacek, R. Veness, C. Castro Sequeiro, M. Ady.
Radiation levels from a Beam Gas Curtain instrument at the LHC at CERN
in JACoW IPAC2024 (2024). DOI: 10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2024-THPG58. Full text - D. Prelipcean, I. Slipukhin, G. Lerner, R. Garcia Alia, Y. Morilla Garcia, Amor Romero-Maestre, Pedro Martin-Holgado.
Low beam intensity raster scan measurements with the Timepix3 at CNA
in 25th International Workshop on Radiation Imaging Detectors (2024). Presentation. - D. Prelipcean, G. Lerner, R. Garcia Alia, K. Bilko, B. Kolbinger, H. Guerin, J. Storey, R. Kersevan.
Radiation levels produced by the operation of the Beam Gas Vertex monitor in the LHC tunnel at IR4.
in JACoW IPAC2023 (2023). DOI: 10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2023-THPL082. Full text - D. Prelipcean, G. Lerner, R. Garcia Alia, M. Sabaté-Gilarte, F. Cerutti.
Comparison between Run 2 SEU measurements and FLUKA simulations in the CERN LHC tunnel and shielded alcoves around IP1/5
in JACoW IPAC2023 (2023). DOI: 10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2023-THPL083. Full text - D. Prelipcean, G. Lerner, R. Garcia Alia, K. Bilko, M. Sabaté-Gilarte, F. Cerutti, D. Di Francesca, D. Ricci, A. Ciccotelli, and B. Humann.
Comparison Between Run 2 TID Measurements and FLUKA Simulations in the CERN LHC Tunnel of the Atlas Insertion Region.
in JACoW IPAC2022 (2022). DOI: 10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2022-MOPOMS042. Full text
Co-Author
Peer-review
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D. Soderstrom, Y. Aguiar, K. Biłko, A. Canesse, G. Lerner, D. Prelipcean, and R. García Alía.
Radiation Monitoring and Performance of Electronic Systems in High-Energy Accelerator Radiation Environments
in IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, Jan 2025. Full text. -
A. Ciccotelli, R. B. Appleby, F. Cerutti, K. Buffet, F. Butin, G. Corti, L. Salvatore Esposito, R. Garcia Alia, M. Karacson, G. Lerner, M. Wehrle, D. Prelipcean.
Energy deposition studies for the Upgrade II of LHCb at the CERN Large Hadron Collider.
in Phys. Rev. Accel. Beams 27, 061003, June 2024. Full text. -
K. Biłko, R. García Alía, M. Sacristán Barbero, S. Girard, Y. Aguiar, M. Cecchetto, C. Belanger-Champagne, S. Danzeca, W. Hajdas, A. Hands, P. M. Holgado, Y. M. Garcia, A. R. Maestre, D. Prelipcean, F. Ravotti, M. Sebban.
Mixed-field Radiation Monitoring and Beam Characterisation Through Silicon Diode Detectors.
in IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, vol. 71, no. 4, pp. 777-784, April 2024. DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2024.3350342. Full text -
M. Sacristán Barbero, I. Slipukhin, M. Cecchetto, D. Prelipcean, Y. Aguiar, K. Bilko, N. Emriskova, A. Waets, A. Coronetti, M. Kastriotou, C. Cazzaniga, T. Dodd, F. Saigné, V. Pouget, R. García Alía.
Characterization of Fragmented Ultra-high Energy Heavy Ion Beam and its Effects on Electronics Single Event Effect Testing.
in IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, January 2024. DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2024.3396737. Full text -
S. Yang, M. Sabate Gilarte, A. Tate, N. Santiago, R. Longo, S. Mazzoni, F. Cerutti, E. Bravin, M. Grosse Perdekamp, G. Lerner, D. Prelipcean, Z. Citron, B. Cole, S. Jackobsen, M. D. Kaminski, T. Koeth, C. Lantz, D. MacLean, A. Mignerey, M. Murray, M. Palm, M. Phipps, P. Steinberg, and A. Tsinganis.
22 Na activation level measurements of fused silica rods in the LHC target absorber for neutrals compared to simulations.
in Phys. Rev. Accel. Beams 25, 091001, September 2022. DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevAccelBeams.25.091001 Full text. -
G. Lerner, A. Coronetti, J. Mael Kempf, R. Garcia Alia, F. Cerutti, D. Prelipcean, M. Ceccheto, A. Gilardi,
W. Farabolini and R. Corsini.
Analysis of the Photoneutron Field Near the THz Dump of the CLEAR Accelerator at CERN With SEU Measurements and Simulations,
in IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, vol. 69, no. 7, pp. 1541-1548, July 2022, DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2022.3157404. Full text -
K. Biłko, R. García Alía, M. Sacristán Barbero, D. Prelipcean, C. Cazzaniga, A. Coronetti, P. Martin-Holgado, Y. Morilla Garcia, G. Lerner, W. Hajdas.
Silicon solid-state detectors for monitoring high-energy accelerator mixed field radiation environments.
in 21th European Conference on Radiation and Its Effects on Components and Systems (RADECS), Vienna, Austria, 2021, pp. 1-5. DOI: 10.1109/RADECS53308.2021.9954498. Full text - T. Simko, H.P. de Bittencourt, E. Carrera, D. Delgado Lopez, C. Lange, K. Lassila-Perini, A. Lintuluoto, L. Lara Iglesias, T. McCauley, J. Okraska, D. Prelipcean, and M. Savaniakas.
Open data provenance and reproducibility: a case study from publishing CMS open data.
in EPJ Web Conf., 245:08014, 2020. Full text.
Conference proceedings
- E. Revani, D. Prelipcean, G. Lerner, J. Storey.
Measurement of the Muon Rate at the SND Experiment with the Timepix3 Radiation Monitor
in JACoW IPAC2025 (2025), DOI: 10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2025-TUPB005. Full text - D. Sodestrm, D. Prelipcean, and others.
Readiness of the HEARTS@CERN facility for space electronics high-energy heavy-ion testing
in JACoW IPAC2025 (2025), DOI: 10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2025-TUPB006. Full text - A. Waets, D. Bretheux, D. Prelipcean, E. Johnson, F. Ravotti, F. Roncanolo, F. Cerutti, G. Romagnoli, J. Tan, K. Bilko, L. S. Esposito, M. Delriux, M. Fraser, M. Duraffourg, N. Charitonidis, and R. Garcia Alia.
Heavy Ion Beam Characterization for Radiation Effects Testing at CERN using Monte Carlo Simulations and experimental benchmarking.
in JACoW IPAC2023 (2023), DOI: 10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2023-THPM128. Full text - A. Canesse, S. Danzeca, R. Garcia Alia, G. Lerner, D. Prelipcean, D. Ricci, and A. Zimmaro.
Overview of the radiation levels in the CERN accelerator complex after LS2.
in JACoW IPAC2023 (2023), DOI: 10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2023-THPA046. Full text - M. Fraser, P. Arrutia Sota, K. Biko, N. Charitonidis, S. Danzeca, M. Delrieux, M. Duraffourg, N. Emriskova, L. Esposito, R. Garca Ala, A. Guerrero, O. Hans, G. Imesch, E. Johnson, G. Lerner, I. Ortega Ruiz, G. Pezzullo, D. Prelipcean, F. Ravotti, F. Roncarolo, and A. Waets.
Feasibility of Slow-Extracted High-Energy Ions From the CERN Proton Synchrotron for CHARM.
in JACoW IPAC2022 (2022), DOI: 10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2022-WEPOST012. Full text - Y. Aguiar, A. Apollonio, F. Cerutti, S. Danzeca, R. García Alía, G. Lerner, D. Prelipcean, M. Sabaté-Gilarte.
Radiation to Electronics Impact on CERN LHC Operation: Run 2 Overview and HL-LHC Outlook.
in JACoW IPAC2021 (2021), DOI: 10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2021-MOPAB013. Full text
Collaborations
- HEARTS Collaboration.
The HEARTS EU project and its initial results on fragmented high-energy heavy ion Single Event Effects Testing.
in IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science PP(99):1-1. Jan 2025. Full text. - FLUKA.CERN Collaboration.
Latest FLUKA developments.
in EPJ Nuclear Sci. Technol. Volume 10. 02 Dec 2024. Full text. - FLUKA.CERN Collaboration.
New capabilities of the FLUKA multi-purpose code.
in Front. Phys. Sec. Radiation Detectors and Imaging. 27 Jan 2022. Full text. - SND Collaboration.
SND@LHC - Scattering and Neutrino Detector at the LHC. Technical Report.
in CERN-LHCC-2021-003. LHCC-P-016, CERN, Geneva, Jan 2021. Full text. -
High-Luminosity Large Hadron Collider (HL-LHC): Technical design report.
in CERN Yellow Reports: Monographs. CERN, Geneva, 2020 Full text.
Press Appearances
English
Romanian
- (2024-10-07) Daniel Prelipcean, Forbes România 30 sub 30, ediția 2024: Descifrarea misterelor fizicii
- (2022-10-12) Rădăuțeanul Daniel Prelipcean, doctorand la CERN, în Top 100 Români de Pretutindeni, categoria Științe
- (2022-10-11) Fizicianul Daniel Prelipcean, absolvent al Colegiului National "Eudoxiu Hurmuzachi" Radauti, nominalizat in Top 100 Romani de pretutindeni
- (2021-05-25) Daniel Prelipcean, tânărul fizician care ciocnește particule în acceleratorul de la CERN
- (2021-01-24) Cel mai bun student român din diaspora. A plecat din România pentru a studia fizica în Germania
- (2020-08-20) Acasa in Diaspora - Daniel Prelipcean, acasă la Geneva, Elveția
- (2020-04-30) Despre cele mai înalte aspirații ale tânărului Daniel Prelipcean, declarat cel mai bun student român al anului în străinătate
- (2020-02-12) Daniel Prelipcean, câştigător al marelui premiu la Gala Ligii Studenţilor Români din Străinătate
- (2020-01-09) Cel mai bun student Roman din strainatate
German
Contact
Use the following - or the ones at the top of the page - to get in touch
Location:
Geneva, Switzerland
Email:
daniel.prelipcean at cern.ch