Christina Vallgren

Before coming to CERN, Christina earned an MSc degree in nuclear physics from Chalmers University of Technology. Sweden and did her master thesis in evaluation and study of control rods performance in various nuclear power plants. The work was carried out at Westinghouse, Sweden and KKL, nuclear power plant in Leibstadt, Switzerland. In 2008 she joined CERN for a PhD in applied physics and has worked there for the last 12 years (Summer Student 2007->PhD 2008-2011-> Senior Research Fellow 2011-2014> Staff Physicist 2014-2019). Christina was the main responsible for the LHC (Large Hadron Collider, 27 km, the world's biggest accelerator) Beam Vacuum (the world's biggest vacuum system) Operation and has also been the supervisor for five master students and two fellows. She is also a scientific journal referee for IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science.