Dr. Paolo Craievich

Responsibilities at PSI

• SwissFEL Linac RF systems: coordination of operations and consolidation in cooperation with the technical, beam dynamics and operations groups.
• Responsible for the operation, maintenance, and upgrades of the SLS-injector LINAC.
• Responsible for the development and testing of the next generation photocathode C- band RF gun 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 source experiment in SwissFEL.
• Responsible of the collaboration between PSI, CERN and DESY for the development of an X-band transverse deflecting RF system with variable polarization.
• New concepts and development of RF accelerating structures and components.
• Analysis and optimization of the interaction between beam and acceleration structures and components (wakefield and impedance).

Professional services

• 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 KEKB Accelerator Review Committee 2022-2025.
• Scientific Societies: Vice chair of the IEEE NPSS Particle Accelerator Science and Technology (PAST) Technical committee, 2023-2026.
• Member of the Scientific Programming Committees of the Linac conference, 2021 - ...
• Member of the Scientific Program Committees of the FCC week, 2023 - ...
• Referee of proposals submitted to the Office of Basic Energy Sciences (BES) within the Department of Energy Office of Science (DOE Office), 2019 - … 
• Referee of the SLAC Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRD) program, 2023 - …
• Co-coordinator of the working group on dielectric wakefield accelerator (DWA) for the Advance and novel Accelerators for High Energy Physics Roadmap Workshop (2017).
• Member of the research panel for the development of future electron sources for the DOE BES sponsored Workshop on “Future of Electron Sources”, SLAC National Laboratory (2016).
• Referee of PhD students at the School of Accelerator Physics at the University of Roma Sapienza (Italy) and Lund University (Sweden).
• Associate Guest Editor: IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science.
• Referee 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.
• Supervisor of PhD and master thesis students.

Awards and Honors

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

Last invited talks

• 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

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