Karl Jakobs

Karl Jakobs is Professor of Particle Physics at the University of Freiburg, Germany.^[1] He was the Spokesperson (scientific head) of the ATLAS Collaboration at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN from 2017 to 2021.^[2]

Karl Jakobs
Alma mater	University of Bonn (Diplom) Heidelberg University (PhD)
Awards	Stern-Gerlach-Medaille (2015)
Scientific career
Fields	Particle physics ATLAS experiment
Institutions	CERN University of Freiburg
Website	www.particles.uni-freiburg.de

Education

Jakobs studied at the University of Bonn and received his Diplom in 1984. He went to the Heidelberg University to study the properties of the production of W and Z bosons in proton-proton collisions and received his PhD in 1988.^[3]

Awards

In 2015 Karl Jakobs was awarded the Stern–Gerlach Medal for his contributions to the discovery of the Higgs boson.^[4][5]