Curriculum Vitae
Fawzi J. Fares

June 1997


Fawzi J. Fares

Work Address
School of Physics,
University of Melbourne,
Parkville,
Victoria, 3052,
Australia
Email: f.fares@physics.unimelb.edu.au

+61 3 344 5075 (Ph)
+61 3 347 4783 (Fax)

Place of Birth: Zahle- Lebanon
Present Status: Single
Citizenship: Australian Resident
Date of Birth: 26 October 1970
Position Sought:
Available Date: July1997


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Education

Awarded April 1997
University of Melbourne
Ph.D. in Physics.
Thesis title:
Simulation of H-->ZZ*-->4e(+/-) and Study of Front End Electronics for the Large Hadron Collider.
1992 University of Melbourne
B.Sc. (with first class honours) in Physics.
Thesis title:
The Study of Radiation Damage to silicon Detectors Using Deep Level Transient Spectroscopy.
1991 The University of Melbourne
B.Sc. Majoring in Physics.

see attached transcript for subjects


Employment

1997 International Office and Information Centre, The University of Melbourne. Systems administrator and local information and technology expert for a network of Apple MacIntosh and IBM compatible computers.
1993-1997 School Of Physics, The University of Melbourne.
Full time research undera University of Melbourne postgraduate Scholarship.
1994- January 1997 Research Centre for High Energy Physics, The University of Melbourne. Systems administrator for a cluster of networked UNIX workstations.
1994 School Of Physics, The University of Melbourne.
Trained two demonstrators to teach the third year physics practical classes.
1994 School Of Physics, The University of Melbourne.
Third year laboratory demonstrator. Assisted undergraduates undertaking the third year of their Bachelor of Science degree in laboratory classes.
1993 School Of Physics, The University of Melbourne.
First Year Physics Tutor. Taught first year Physics to classes of approximately 20 undergraduates.
1992 School Of Physics, The University of Melbourne.
First year laboratory demonstrator. Assisted and guided undergraduates in laboratory classes.
Summer 1992-1993 School Of Physics, The University of Melbourne.
Summer student, characterizing radiation damage to silicon tracking detectors.
1986-1991 The Mountain Bread and Food Factory.
Worked between six and eight hours a day as a baker while enrolled as an undergraduate student.


Skills

Scientific expertise:

  • Experimental High Energy Physics techniques.
  • Computer numerical modelling and simulation of physical systems.
  • satistical analysis of data with particular emphasis on
    • Monte Carlo techniques.
    • Comparison with real data and consequent improvement of the model and experimental setup.
  • Fast electronics and signal processing.
  • The use of optical fibres for the communication between electonics modules.

Computer related skills:

  • Expertise in the UNIX operating system, particularly Digital UNIX, HP_UX, ULTRIX, SUN/OS, and LINUX.
  • Systems administrator of the UNIX network (TCP/IP) at the Research Centre for High Energy Physics(The University of Melbourne).
  • Systems administrator for a network of Apple MacIntosh machines and IBM compatible PCs at the International Office (The University of Melbourne).
  • Experienced in the networked PC and MacIntosh environments.
  • Programming Skills:
    • Analysis and implementation of numerical simulation and scientific data analysis in the C and Fortran programing languages.
    • The TCL/TK, Graphical User Interface (GUI), programming language for UNIX, IBM campatible PCs and Apple Macintosh environments.
    • UNIX (Shell script sh, tcsh, sed and awk) programming.
    • The HTML markup language of the World Wide Web (WWW).
    • The LabView instrumentation programming environment.
  • Software applications:
    • Word, Excel and powerpoint.
    • Adobe Photoshop and Corel Draw.
    • FileMaker Pro.

Others valuable skills:

  • Working as a member of a team.
  • Strong communication skills.
  • General problem solving skills.
  • The ability to work unsupervised.
  • The ability to initiate ideas.
  • Can readily apply knowledge and skills to widely varying problems.
  • Able to locate and use a wide range of resources.
  • Quick learner of new concepts and techniques.


Scholarships and Awards

1995 The ``Nuclear and Particle Physics Summer School of the Australian Institute of Physics'' award for best poster presentation.
1993-1994 A scholarship awarded by the ``The International Association for the Exchange of Students for Technical Experience'', to study for three months at the University of Geneva.
1993-1996 The University of Melbourne Postgraduate Scholarship.
1992 The John Tyndall Scholarship in Physics. Awarded for the high achievement in physics during the Honours year of the Bachelor of Science degree.


Field Work

Presented a paper at the Australian Institute of Physics Congress (1996).

Three months at the CERN laboratories in France and Switzerland. I was involved, as a member of an international team of physicists, in extensive simulations of physics processes which had major impact on the design of the ATLAS detector (1996).

Two three month periods at the CERN laboratories. These periods were spent setting up and running two experiments (1995).

Presented a report on my work at a collaboration meeting at the ``Centre de Physique des Particules de Marseille'' in France (1994).

Six months at the CERN laboratories. I was involved in writing detector simulation code for the ATLAS international collaboration (1994).

Presented a report on my work at a collaboration meeting at the Rutherford-Appleton Laboratory in the UK (1993).

Six months conducting experiments at the CERN laboratories as a member of a research team at the University of Geneva (1993).


Languages

  • English - excellent.
  • Arabic - excellent.
  • French - very good.
  • Italian - basic.


Interests

My interests include playing tennis and squash. I also enjoy learning languages and listening to music.


Publications

  • G. Taylor....,F. Fares, et al. 2nd International Symposium on Development and Application of Semiconductor Tracking Detectors - STD Symposium, Hiroshima, Japan, 10-1995. Proceedings/Ed. by T. Ohsugi, Y. Unno and N. Tamura, Nucl. Instrum. Methods Phys. Res., A: 383 (1) (1996), 144-154.
  • J. Beringer...., F. Fares, et al. ATLAS beam test results. 2nd International Symposium on Development and Application of Semiconductor Tracking Detectors - STD Symposium, Hiroshima, Japan, 10-1995. Proceedings/Ed. by T. Ohsugi, Y. Unno and N. Tamura, Nucl. Instrum. Methods Phys. Res., A: 383 (1) (1996), 144-154.
  • F. Anghinolfi..., F.Fares,G.F.Moorhead,G.N.Taylor, et al. Some recent results of the silicon detector radiation damage study by the RD2 collaboration. -1995.
  • K.Borer..., F.Fares, et al. APC3-A Charge Sampling, Storage & Readout Chip for Silicon Detector Readout. IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci. 41,4 (1994) 1091-1094
  • F.Anghinolfi,..., F.Fares,G.F.Moorhead,G.N.Taylor, et al. Characteristics of a HARP signal processor with analog memory operated with segmented silicon detectors. IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, 41 (1994), pp1130-1134.
  • R.Bonino..., F.Fares, et al. Prototypes for the ATLAS Silicon Outer Tracker: Signal Processing and Readout. Fourth International Conference on Electronics for Future Colliders, May 1994, LeCroy Corporation, Chestnut Ridge, New York.
  • The ATLAS Collaboration ATLAS: Technical Proposal for a General Purpose pp Experiment at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. CERN/LHCC/94--43, 1994.
  • John Bains, Andrea Dell'acqua, Fawzi Fares, Daniel Froidveaux, Pavel Nevski. Inner Detector Layout for Technical Proposal. ATLAS Inner detector Note 66, 1994.
  • Canonical SCT-Modules for Physics Simulations. The Semiconductor Tracker Group. Editors F. Fares, A. Reichold. ATLAS Inner detector Note 70, 1994.
  • F. Fares and G. Taylor. A Study of the Transition Region in the Continuous Tracker (TRT) of the ATLAS Inner Detector. ATLAS Inner detector Note 88, 1994.


References

Dr G.N. Taylor
Associate Professor of Physics
School of Physics
University of Melbourne
Parkville
Victoria 3052
Australia
Telephone
(+613) 344 5456 (Business Hrs).
(+613) 347 4783 (Fax)
g.taylor@physics.unimelb.edu.au
Dr M.E. Sevior
Senior Lecturer of Physics
School of Physics
University of Melbourne
Parkville
Victoria 3052
Australia
Telephone
(+613) 344 5438 (Business Hrs).
(+613) 347 4783 (Fax)
m.sevior@physics.unimelb.edu.au


Email:f.fares@physics.unimelb.edu.au

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