Carsten Søgaard

Carsten Søgaard is a postdoc at the eScience group, Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen. He has a background in heavy-ion physics, where he has participated in the ALICE experiment at CERN while obtaining both masters and Ph.D. degrees. Currently he is working on data processing of the future NMX-detector, where the aim is to develop an algorithm to increase the precision of the detection position.

- I got involved in BrightnESS by responding to a job posting, which I saw on the ESS website. I had been following the ESS website for a while for a job within my area of expertise to apply for, and then this position at the University of Copenhagen appeared. Being a scientist by education, I love to work in a scientific environment and I thought that ESS would be an exciting facility to be part of.

My tasks in the project mainly involve coding, both simulations and algorithms. I work with a computer scientist and I benefit a lot from our daily knowledge exchange, as it helps me to develop my competencies within programming.      

I have worked on similar European projects before, such as the ALICE project at CERN, and I am particularly looking forward to working with the many different institutes and nationalities of BrightnESS - I find this very stimulating, especially on a personal level.

Working with particle detectors is both a personal and professional interest of mine and therefore I am looking forward to working with this area in BrightnESS. ESS is an exciting project in terms of materials science and it triggers me a lot to be a part of realising this project.