Prof. Olaf Steinkamp
Department of Physics
University of Zurich
Winterthurerstrasse 190
8057 Zurich, Switzerland
Y36-J-05 |
Research
I am a member of the LHCb collaboration at CERN and of the mu3e collaboration at the Paul Scherrer Institute. My largest contribution to the LHCb experiment has been the development, construction and commissioning of the Tracker Turicensis ("Zurich Tracker"), a large silicon micro-strip detector that formed part of the main tracking system of the experiment. I have been Silicon Tracker Project Leader, member of the LHCb Technical Board and Collaboration Board, and chair of the LHCb Speakers' Bureau. In my role as LHCb Early Career, Gender and Diversity Officer, I helped initiate and organize a number of initiatives to support early-career scientists at CERN, such as Mentoring@CERN. At the mu3e experiment, I am involved in the development of the vertex detector, which employs novel high-voltage tolerant monolithic active pixel sensors.
Teaching
I dedicate a large fraction of my time to teaching. I have taught courses at the University of Zürich at various levels, ranging from a two-semester course on physics for 1st-year students of medicine to courses on experimental methods in particle and astro-particle physics for graduate students. I have supervised lab courses for students in particle physics, including a course in which we set up and conduct an experiment at a beam line at PSI. A course I taught on experimental aspects of Flavour Physics formed the basis for my Habilitation, "Experiments in Beauty". My latest assignment is a two-semester course on the basics of physics for future teachers, which I teach in collaboration with Pädagogische Hochschule Zürich.