Daniel Esperante Pereira

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Dr. Daniel Esperante Pereira
Researcher at Instituto de Física Corpuscular (IFIC) - University of Valencia, CSIC
Responsible of the High-Gradient RF accelerators Laboratory at IFIC

Qualifications

Telecommunications Engineering, University of Vigo, Spain
PhD in Physics, Department of Electronics and Informatics, University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain

Grants

• Spanish Ministry of Science PhD FPI grant
  
• CPAN (Centro Nacional de Física de Partículas, Astropartículas y Nuclear) grant for Spanish experts on LHC experiments
  
• Marie-Curie Individual Fellowship grant for development of the IFIC RF lab
  
• Stays and scientific collaboration contracts in excellence international organizations (> 6 years)
  

Responsibility tasks

• 2017 - 2019: Scientific responsible of design and commissioning of the IFIC's high-gradient Radio-Frequency laboratory for medical accelerators and other applications.
  
• 2018 - 2018: Local coordinator of the collaborative CompactLight H2020 project at IFIC.
  
• 2015 - 2017: Coordinator of development of a CLIC RF test-stand for S-Band normal conducting cavities at CERN.
  
• 2011 - 2014: Designer and developer of the instrumentation to test the production of DEPFET modules for Belle-II.
  
• 2011 - 2011: Coordinator of testbeams of silicon planar sensors for the LHCb VELO upgrade.
  
• 2008 - 2011: Expert responsible of operations of the Silicon Tracker and SPD of LHCb for 3 years.
  
• 2005 - 2008: Coordinator and designer of the Silicon Tracker controls of the LHCb experiment at CERN.
  

Summary of CV

I am an Applied Scientist and Technologist with a large international professional experience in R&D in the field of instrumentation for particle physics and Radio-Frequency (RF) accelerators. I have played a leading role in coordinating, designing, developing and commissioning scientific instrumentation at different particle physics experiments and laboratories in different areas such as: applications of RF particle accelerators; analog, digital and power electronics for particle physics and beam instrumentation; control, data acquisition, environmental monitoring, power systems for particle physics experiments.

Marie Curie Postdoc at IFIC and CERN Beam RF (2015-now)

CERN Project associate in a collaboration project between the CERN CLIC group and IFIC for the transfer of the normal-conducting high-gradient acceleration technology to hadrontherapy applications: design and construction of the CLIC X-Band (12 GHz) test facilities at CERN and the S-Band (3 GHz) facility at the Valencia IFIMED RF‑lab. In 2017, I obtained a Marie-Curie Individual Fellowship and since then I am the scientific coordinator of construction, commissioning and exploitation of the IFIC RF-lab. This is a unique world-wide facility, where we plan to develop the high-gradient technology in S-Band, which will permit constructing compact accelerating cavities for commercial applications and other enabling diagnostic detectors.

CERN Beam instrumentation (2014-2015)

CERN Project associate at the BE/BI group. Development of high-speed digital readout and RF electronics for the LHC fast beam-current intensity detectors.

DEPFET collaboration of Belle-II and ILC (2011-2014)

Postdoc at IFIC (Valencia). R&D on the construction of DEPFET detectors for the Belle- II pixel detector: development of a system to characterize the DEPFET modules; I opened a collaboration with Valencia's Nanophotonics Technology Center for the development and optimization of the flip-chip process and X-ray inspection of the modules.

LHCb experiment (2003-2011)

At the U. of Santiago de Compostela I realized my PhD ( FPI fellowship). I played a major role in the design, construction and commissioning of the Silicon Tracker detector where I became one of the detector hardware coordinators. I was the responsible of design and construction of: the control electronics; the low voltage and high voltage systems; the design of the control software and coordinator of the team that performed the implementation; production and testing of the ‘detector boxes’ and commissioning of the detector; involved in irradiation campaigns of electronic components and silicon sensors.
I was also engaged at the upgrade of the LHCb VErtex LOcator detector: test-beam commissioning for silicon micro-strip detectors and thinned silicon pixel sensors; design and development of a high-speed data link.
From 2008-2011 I was rewarded with one of the 6 Spanish CPAN (National Center for Particle Physics) contracts for coordinators and experts at the LHC experiments. I was responsible coordinator of operation, hardware and control software at the LHCb experiment.

Publications

More than 100 publications in the different collaborations in the field of Particle Physics and Particle Accelerators:
Daniel Esperante author profile in INSPIRE High Energy Physics publicatons

Selection of 5 publications with major personal contribution in peer reviewed journals or proceedings:
- The LHCb Collaboration, A Augusto Alves et al., The LHCb Detector at the LHC, Journal of Instrumentation, Volume 3, August 2008. Cites: 2150
- Kazuyoshi Akiba et al., Charged Particle Tracking with the Timepix ASIC, Mar 2011. 51 pp. NIM A661 (2012). Cit: 23
- DEPFET Collaboration (O. Alonso et al.), DEPFET active pixel detectors for a future linear e+e- collider, Dec 2012. 10 pp., IEEE TNS 60 (2013) 1457. Cit: 22
- K. Akiba et al., The Timepix Telescope for High Performance Particle Tracking, Apr 2013. 14 pp., NIM A723 (2013) 47. Cit: 19
- B. Adeva et al., Silicon sensor probing and radiation studies for the LHCb silicon tracker, Aug 2005. 13 pp., NIM A568 (2006) 277-283. Cit: 8

Non-peer reviewed publications:
- A. Vnuchenko et al., Design and Construction of a High-Gradient RF Lab at IFIC-Valencia, 8th Int. Particle Accelerator Conf.(IPAC'17), Copenhagen, May, 2017
- G. McMonagle et al., Construction and commissioning Xbox3: a very high capacity X-band test stand, Conf. proc. 2016 IEEE International Power Modulator and High Voltage Conf. San Francisco, July 2016.
- D. Belohrad, D. Esperante Pereira, J. Kral, S. B. Pedersen, Upgrade of the LHC bunch by bunch intensity measurement acquisition system, Conf. proc. 2016 International Beam Instrumentation Conf. IBIC 2016, Barcelona, Sep 2016.
- M.O. Bettler, G. Conti, H. Voss, N. Gauvin, R. Frei, D. Esperante, J. van Hunen, P. Fauland, Assembly of the inner tracker detector boxes, Jul 2007. 24 pp. Cites: 4


-- DanielEsperantePereira - 18 Jul 2019