IEEE November Stammtisch: Fritz Caspers and reserach at CERN

For our November Stammtisch, Fritz Caspers will talk about his research at CERN

Fritz Caspers was born in Bonn, Germany, in 1950. He studied electrical engineering at the RWTH (Technical University) Aachen (Germany) between 1969 and 1975. Afterwards he became scientific assistant at the "Institut für Hoch- und Höchstfrequenztechnik" at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum (Germany) until spring 1982. He worked in the field of optical fiber technology as well as microwave measurements and received his PhD there (with honors). He joined CERN as a “CERN fellow” in 1982, working on cavity perturbation measurements and beam coupling impedance evaluation. In 1984 he became member of the antiproton accumulator group and got involved in the development of stochastic cooling systems for antiproton beams and also had overall operational responsibility for this part of CERN. He has given many lectures in the CERN accelerator school and other schools (JUAS) on RF-, microwave and beam-diagnostic related subjects since about 1990 and served in numerous review committees (CERN, Japan, China Germany and USA) over several decades. He has authored or co-authored nearly 400 papers (available via CDS CERN) and about 30 patents or patent applications. Scientific activities include beam stability issues, stochastic beam cooling, RF measurement techniques, EMIC/EMC responsibilities and microwave based axion/dark matter search. His present status (2019) is CERN-user in the experimental physics department. He is life Fellow of the IEEE since Jan. 2019. Scientific journal reviews include PRD, PRL, IEEE-IM, IEEE-ED, NIMA and many others.