Peter Križan#
| Membership Number: | 5630 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | PHYSICS & ENGINEERING SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2021 |
| Main Country of Residence: | SLOVENIA |
| Homepage(s): | http://www-f9.ijs.si/~krizan/pk-start.html |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-4967-7675 |
| Twitter: | @peterkrizan2 |
Present and Previous Positions
- University of Ljubljana
- Professor at the Faculty for Mathematics and Physics
- Since 2002 full professor
- 2003 - 2005 Head of physics department and vice dean
- J.Stefan Institute, Ljubljana: scientific councilor
- Since 2015 University of Nagoya, visiting professor
- Since 2010 Editor of Nucl. Instr. Meth. A, J. of Instrumentation
- Since 2001 High Energy Research Organisation (KEK), Tsukuba
- Since 2002 member of the Executive Board of the Belle collaboration
- 2008 - 2009 chair of the Belle II Steering Committee and Technical Coordinator
- 2009 - 2013 spokesperson (scientific leader) of the Belle II Collaboration
- 2015 - 2020 Technical Coordinator of the Belle II Collaboration
- 1989 - 90, 1998 Alexander von Humboldt Fellow, Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY), Hamburg
- 1994 - 2001 coordinator of the HERA-B RICH detector and of the Heavy Flavour Working Group, member of the Executive Board
Fields of Scholarship
- Preparation of the Belle II experiment
- Flavour physics with the ARGUS and HERA-B detectors
- Applications of detection methods in environmental physics and medical imaging
- Experimental precision flavour physics with the Belle detector
- Development of novel identification methods, mainly based on Cherenkov radiation
Honours and Awards
- 2020 ERC Advanced Grant
- 2017 Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, extraordinary member
- 2008 Zois award (the most prestigious Slovenian state award for science)
- 2002 Zois distinction
- 1989 - 1990, 1998 Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship
