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Hoecker, Andreas

Andreas Hoecker was born and studied physics in Germany. He did his PhD at the Laboratoire de l'Accelerateur Lineaire in Orsay near Paris on studies of tau lepton properties and of strong interactions, using data from the ALEPH experiment at the LEP collider at CERN. After his PhD, in 1997 he joined the CNRS and took part in the BaBar experiment at Stanford, USA, where he spent two years studying the violation of the matter–antimatter symmetry. Upon his return to Orsay, in 2005 Andreas Hoecker went to CERN on a permanent research physicist position. Since then he works on the ATLAS experiment, where he contributed in various domains of detector operation and physics data analysis, more specifically in the search for supersymmetry and the discovery of the Higgs boson. He was physics coordinator of the ATLAS collaboration in 2014 and 2015, and was elected deputy spokesperson of ATLAS in 2016.