Short biography
Christophe Grojean started his research work in theoretical high energy physics at CEA Saclay and got his PhD from Orsay University in 1999. He then spent two years as a postdoctoral fellow at UC Berkeley before being hired on a permanent research position at Saclay. In 2004, he was a visiting professor at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. In 2006, he joined the theory unit at CERN first as a fellow and then as junior staff scientist. In the fall of 2012, he joined the Institut de Física d'Altes Energies at UAB as an ICREA Research Professor. He has worked on various topics in particle physics beyond the Standard Model and a few years ago he specialized in the physics and the dynamics of the Higgs boson and its possible various incarnations. He is now working in close contact with experimentalists to establish the profile of these new particles. He is also involved in various working groups to define the physics case of the next accelerator after the LHC. Research interests
High Energy Physics is at a turning point of its history with the running of the experiments of the LHC at CERN. Not only is the Terascale, i.e. the world at distances of order 10^-18m, being probed directly for the first time, but also it is expected that fundamental questions regarding the building blocks of matter and their relative interactions will find their answers after many decades of theoretical speculations. In particular, the dynamics of the breaking of the electroweak symmetry, and thus the origin of the masses of all the elementary particles, is finally to be understood. The infamous Higgs boson might explain why matter dominates antimatter in the Universe, or help us understand the nature of dark matter, or reveal the existence of new structures of matter, or even tell us how many dimensions are occupied by our space-time. The determination of the exact Higgs boson profile is expected to reveal the first glimpses into the physics landscape beyond the Standard Model. Key words
Theoretical High Energy Physics