GLUONNET - Key Persons


Cenk TÜYSÜZ

Cenk is a MSc student at Middle East Technical University (METU). He is working on Quantum Machine Learning applications in High Energy Physics.

Daniel DOBOS

Job Titles:
  • Partner
  • Technology & Innovation
Daniel is a particle physicist with a 15 year career at CERN working on silicon and diamond detectors as well as project management, large-scale data acquisition and analysis for the ATLAS experiment and the Large Hadron Collider. Daniel co-funded THE Port humanitarian hackathons at CERN, was program coordinator for the Geneva Global Goals Innovation Day (G3iD) and worked as Foresight & Futures Head for the United Nations hosted Global Humanitarian Lab (GHL).

Ernest Rutherford

Job Titles:
  • Fellow at the University of Oxford

Hans BAECHLE

Job Titles:
  • Communication Consultant
Hans is studying science communication at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. Before his time at gluoNNet, he was working in communications for CERN and also for Siemens. Hans is a Science and Technology Studies (STS) master's student at Maastricht University. During his bachelor's degree in Science-Media-Communication at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, he spent 14 months at CERN as a junior communications officer. Hans helped to organise various hackathons of different formats and wrote his bachelor's thesis about online hackathons.

Karolos POTAMIANOS

Job Titles:
  • R & D
  • R & D / Partner
  • Research Fellow at DESY
Karolos is an Ernest Rutherford Fellow at the University of Oxford working on the ATLAS Experiment at CERN. He studied engineering and business administration at the Université Libre de Bruxelles and physics at Purdue University, earning his PhD searching for the Higgs boson using machine learning before joining the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory as a Physicist Fellow, and DESY as a Research Fellow. Karolos is an expert in large-scale data analysis, silicon pixel detectors, data acquisition and pattern recognition. He co-founded THE Port Humanitarian Hackathons at CERN. Karolos is a Research Fellow at DESY working on the ATLAS Experiment at CERN. He studied engineering and business administration at the Université Libre de Bruxelles and physics at Purdue University.

Kristiane NOVOTNY

Job Titles:
  • Lead Data Scientist
Digital-savvy, passionate, and motivated Data Scientist who combines her talent to analyze data sets and her strong will to make a positive impact in people's life. Kristiane received her PhD in theoretical physics focusing on current topics in high energy physics at the university of Mainz. She joined the theory department at CERN as a visiting scientist during her PhD. Her research included finding hidden connections that might answer recent questions in high energy physics by using machine learning techniques. She then joined gluoNNet for making a positive impact in people's life.

Maisie MARSHALL

Job Titles:
  • Software Engineer
Maisie is a Master in Physics with first class honours graduate from the University of Surrey. She specialised in computational physics and nuclear astrophysics, completing projects such as simulating explosive processes in stars and modelling the orbits of celestial objects. During her research experience she modelled, designed, and developed algorithms for directional radiation detectors, using techniques such as machine learning. She joined gluoNNet to provide data analysis and machine learning solutions to solve important problems. Maisie is a MPhys Physics graduate from the University of Surrey. During her research year she worked on directional radiation detectors, and gained experience using techniques such as machine learning.

Mathis GERDES

Mathis is a graduate student at the elite MSc course on theoretical and mathematical physics at the LMU and TU Munich. He studied physics at the University of Göttingen and specialized in computer science during an ERASMUS year abroad at the University of Edinburgh. Mathis was a summer student at CERN in 2018 and is passionate about exploring the impact of data and information technology on society.

Michael DENYER

Job Titles:
  • Computer Scientist
  • Software Engineer
Michael is a computer scientist and a bioinformatician. Over his 20 year career, he has worked in roles centred on software development, IT management and bioinformatics within Financial Services, Healthcare, and Life Sciences.

Patrick SEAL

Job Titles:
  • Head of Delivery
Patrick is Head of Delivery focussed on project realisation for our commercial customers. With 30 years experience in technology roles (IBM and EY) delivering genuinely progressive change programmes. Patrick's specialties include the delivery of complex technical programmes and portfolio of projects; innovation and disruption of existing large scale processes; and the development of approaches that increase the probability of consistent delivery.

Richard FORSTER

Job Titles:
  • Software Engineer
Computing enthusiast, grown on video game technologies, working on GPU based solutions with a multidisciplinary mindset in data analysis, physics track reconstruction and image registration.

Steve HAMM

Job Titles:
  • Partner
Steve lives with his wife and two daughters in London. His professional career has taken on a variety of roles and sectors from social enterprise and innovation to financial services consultancy, international development and venture capital. He is currently the Director of Special Projects at Civic, an accelerator of social change working across the UK, Jordan, Afghanistan and Greece, where he focuses on strategy, impact and participatory finance mechanisms.