Dr. Paolo Craievich

Responsibilities at PSI

• SwissFEL and SLS-injector linacs: co-coordination of operations and upgrades in cooperation with the technical, beam dynamics and operation groups.
• Responsible for the development and testing of the next generation photocathode RF guns at PSI in the framework of the EU project IFAST.
• Principal Investigator of the approved CHART proposal for the FCC-ee Injector complex design and for the positron and electron sources experiment at PSI (2025-2028).
• Responsible of the collaboration between PSI, CERN and DESY for the development of an X-band transverse deflecting RF system with variable polarisation (PolariX TDS system).
• New concepts,R&D and measurements of radio-frequency structures and diagnostics for SwissFEL, SLS, HIPA and in the context of international collaborations (INFN-LNF, FERMI-Elettra, DESY, CERN, KEK, SLAC).
• Analysis and optimisation of the interaction between beam and acceleration structures and components (wakefield and impedance). Beam manipulation with passive structures.
• Supervision of summer students and PhDs.

Professional services

• Member of the EIC Electron Injector design and cost review committee, BNL, Brookhaven National Laboratory, USA, 2025 – ...
• Senior Editor of the Transactions on Nuclear Science (TNS), Accelerator Technology, 2025 – ...
• Convener of Working group Injector and Injection for the ICFA Advanced Beam Dynamics Workshop on High Luminosity e+e- Colliders (eeFACT2025), Tsukuba, Japan, March 3-7, 2025.
• Member of the Research Commission (FoKo) at PSI, 2024 – ...
• Member of the Swiss Accelerator Research and Technology (CHART) Executive Board, 2023 - ...
• Visiting professor at the University La Sapienza in Rome, September 2024.
• Reviewer of the SLAC Laboratory Directed Research and Development program, 2023 – ...
• Member of the KEKB Accelerator Review Committee (ARC), KEK Tsukuba, Japan, 2022 – ...
• Scientific Societies: Chair of the IEEE NPSS Particle Accelerator Science and Technology (PAST) Technical committee, 2025-2026.
• Member of the Scientific Programming Committees of the Linac conference, 2021 - ...
• Member of the Scientific Program Committees of the FCC week, 2023 - ...
• Member for the evaluation committee for the feM-LEAD (female mentoring: Leadership for Equity And Diversity) programme, PSI, 2021 – 2024.
• Reviewer of proposals submitted to the Office of Basic Energy Sciences (BES) within the Department of Energy Office of Science (DOE Office), 2019 - …
• Reviewer of scientific journals: Physical Review Letters, Applied Physics Letters, Physical Review Accelerators and Beams, Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics research section A, Review of Scientific Instruments, 2008 – ...
• Reviewer of PhD students

Awards and Honors

• IEEE Senior member.
• 2019 IEEE NPSS Particle Accelerator Science and Technology Award. 

Last invited talks

• Tuning-Free High-Gradient RF Structures: From SwissFEL to FCC-ee – A Scalable Technology for Future Accelerators, invited talk at NAPAC 2025.
• The FCC-ee injector: Overview and outlook, invited talk at the FCC week, 2025.
• The FCC-ee injector complex, invited talk at the CERN Chamonix workshop, 2025.
• Prospects of Transverse Deflecting RF Structures as Diagnostic Tools for Linacs, invited talk at IPAC 2024.
• The FCC-ee Injector complex: an overview of linacs, positron source and damping ring, Cool Copper Collider Workshop, SLAC, Feb 12-13, 2024.
• Post-undulator beam measurements with PolariX TDS in SwissFEL, talk held at the SPIE Optics + Opticselectronics – 26 April 2023, Prague, Czech Republic.
• FCC-ee Pre-injector baseline and options, talk held at FCC week 2023.
• FCC-ee injector summary, talk held at the closing session at the FCC week 2023.
• The FCC-ee Injector Studies, talk held at the KEK, 2022.
• The FCC-ee Pre-injector studies and the PSI Positron Production at SwissFEL, talk held at ICHEP 2022, Bologna (Italy).
• The FCC-ee Injector Complex (Diagnostic requirements based on the SwissFEL linac), talk held at 1st FCC-ee Beam Instrumentation Workshop, CERN, November 2022.
• General pre-injector layout and parameter summary, talk held at FCC week 2022.
• The FCC-ee Injector Complex: Overview and layout, talk held at the FCC Week 2021.
• FCC-ee injector update and Positron source test at PSI, talk held at the FCC Week 2020.
• Overview of the SwissFEL Injector design and performances, talk held at the XLS Injector Road Map, November 2019.
• The PolariX TDS: A novel X-band Transverse Deflection Structure with variable polarization, talk held at the International Conference on Frontier in Diagnostic Technologies, Rome, October 2018.
• Electron beam sources and beam manipulation using passive structures at PSI, talk held at Tsinghua University, Beijing, September 2018.
• SwissFEL Linac commissioning status, current performance and future plans, talk held at the Linac Conference, Beijing, September 2018.
• RF activities, ongoing R&D collaborations and passive structures, talk held at MAX IV, Sweden, 2017.
• Beam manipulations in FEL linacs using self-induced fields, talk held at the International ICFA Workshop on Nonlinear dynamics and Collective Effects in particle beam physics, 2017.

Education

List of publications and proceedings

List of publications on DORA

List of publications on Scopus

List of publications on Web of Science

List of proceedings on Jacow