Stefan Popa

Stefan Popa was born on the 29th of October 1992 in Brasov, Romania. At high-school he focussed on computer science, mathematics and physics, winning awards in county and national level contests and olympiads in computer science and physics. His association with CERN began in the summer of 2014 when he worked as an undergraduate student for the ATLAS Experiment in networking. In 2015 he continued his studies at Transilvania University of Brasov, graduating with a Master's degree in Integrated...See more

Stefan Popa was born on the 29th of October 1992 in Brasov, Romania. At high-school he focussed on computer science, mathematics and physics, winning awards in county and national level contests and olympiads in computer science and physics. His association with CERN began in the summer of 2014 when he worked as an undergraduate student for the ATLAS Experiment in networking. In 2015 he continued his studies at Transilvania University of Brasov, graduating with a Master's degree in Integrated Electronics and Communication Systems. In 2017 he started his Ph.D. in the Electronics Engineering, Telecommunications and Information Technology at the same university. He became an ATLAS author in November 2018 (i.e. official recognition of contributions to the Experiment). Since January 2021 he has been employed as a research assistant at Transilvania University of Brasov in parallel to the ATLAS Experiment national project. His PhD thesis was among the six outstanding dissertations receiving the ATLAS thesis prize for 2021. See less