Dr. Christoph Leemann is the Director of the Thomas Jefferson National
Accelerator Facility (Jefferson Lab), a U.S. Department of Energy nuclear
physics research facility in Newport News, Virginia. Previous positions
at Jefferson Lab include Interim Director, Deputy Director and Associate
Director of the Accelerator Division. Before coming to Jefferson Lab in
1985, Dr. Leemann served as Deputy Leader of the Advanced Accelerator
Studies Group at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBL). A native of
Basel, Switzerland, he holds a Ph.D. in Experimental Nuclear Physics from
the Universität Basel in Switzerland.
Dr. Leemann is internationally recognized in accelerator physics. As
Deputy Leader of the Advanced Accelerator Studies Group at LBL, his group
contributed to the development of the Superconducting Super Collider
Reference Designs Study. Earlier in his career, Dr. Leemann contributed to
the development of the conversion of the Bevatron to heavy-ion operation,
wrote seminal studies for relativistic heavy-ion colliders, and
participated in the start-up of stochastic cooling studies. As Associate
Director and Head of the Accelerator Division at Jefferson Lab beginning
in 1985, he had personal responsibility for all aspects of accelerator
construction, commissioning and operation. To this end, Dr. Leemann led
and managed a multi-disciplinary team of more than 250 scientists,
engineers, software specialists and technicians in a multifaceted
high-tech environment involving forefront electronics, superconductivity,
surface science, cryogenics and computer process control applications.
Under his leadership the Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility
(CEBAF) was designed, constructed and commissioned on-time and on-budget.
That technology also became the basis for the world's most powerful
tunable laser as well as the de facto standard for the design of new
accelerators. Dr. Leemann has published extensively on nuclear physics and
on high-energy and heavy-ion accelerators.
Dr. Leemann was appointed a Governor's Distinguished CEBAF Professor at
the University of Virginia in July, 1985.
Dr. Leemann's membership in professional organizations includes the
American Physical Society (APS), where he is a Fellow, and he has served
on the Executive Committee of the APS Division of Physics of Beams. In
addition, Dr. Leemann serves or has served on various professional
committees such as: the Department of Energy Nuclear Science Advisory
Committee, Spallation Neutron Source Concept Optimization Committee, Muon
Collider Technical Advisory Committee, Fermi National Accelerator
Laboratory Machine Advisory Committee, ICFA Subpanel on Beam Dynamics,
Particle Accelerator Conference Program and Organizing Committees, Linear
Accelerator Conference Committee and Rare-Isotope Accelerator (RIA)
facility design committee.
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