CERN Accelerating science

Robert Helmut Munzer
(Frankfurt, Germany)
Run Coordinator

Robert is a physicist from the University of Frankfurt. He graduated in 2014 from the Technical University in Munich with a thesis about the search for kaonic cluster at the FOPI experiment at GSI. After his PhD, he was involved in building the GEM TPC in FOPI and the development of a pion beam tracker for the HADES experiment. Robert joined ALICE in 2015 for the upgrade of the TPC and built the prototypes of GEM readout chambers for the TPC.

In 2016, Robert joined the Goethe University in Frankfurt and started work as the ALICE TPC system run coordinator.

For the upgrade of the TPC, he had worked on testing, installation, and commissioning of the new readout chambers and the upgraded TPC. One of his focuses was the new HV system.

He continued as a TPC system run coordinator also for the upgraded TPC until December 2023.

Robert was the Deputy Run Coordinator of ALICE in 2024.

Silvia Pisano
(Frascati, Italy)
Deputy

Silvia is a Physicist from Frascati. She graduated in Physics at the “Sapienza” University of Rome, where she then obtained a PhD with a thesis in the field of hadronic physics. She worked as a postdoc in Austria, Brazil and France. In 2011 she returned to Italy and started to work at the Frascati National Laboratories (LNF) of the Italian Institute for Nuclear Physics. Since 2018 she is researcher at the Enrico Fermi Research Center and at Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati where, since December 2019, she is the Coordinator of the Nuclear Physics group. She participated in the CLAS Collaboration at Jefferson Lab (Newport News, VA, USA) from 2008 to 2016.

In 2017, Silvia joined the ALICE experiment at CERN. Within the ALICE Collaboration she worked on spectra analyses and then started working in operations, serving as Training Coordinator in 2023 and 2024.

Her research activity focuses on the study of fundamental interactions, and in particular on the mechanisms through which strong interactions influence the structure of hadrons. The first part of her career was focused on the extraction of nucleon structure functions through the analysis of data collected in fixed-target experiments at Jefferson Lab while, when she joined the ALICE experiment, her focus moved toward the phenomenology of elementary degrees of freedom, i.e. quarks and gluons.