Bernd Stelzer

Bernd Stelzer is a Professor in the Department of Physics at Simon Fraser University (SFU). His research focuses on subatomic particle physics, particularly collider experiments at the high-energy frontier using the ATLAS detector at CERN. He leads the High Energy Physics Group, which includes Ph.D. candidates and postdoctoral researchers investigating topics like Higgs boson physics, top quark behavior, and advanced analysis techniques.

Education: BSc (Honors) in Physics from the University of Cape Town, Dipl. Phys (Physics) from Heidelberg University, PhD in Physics from the University of Toronto. He was a Feodor Lynen Fellow at UCLA supported by the Humboldt Foundation.

Research interests include mechanisms of electroweak symmetry breaking, top quark physics as a probe of beyond-Standard-Model physics, and development of advanced analysis methods. His group actively contributes to ATLAS experiments analyzing proton-proton collisions at the LHC.

Key achievements include studies of Higgs boson production and decay mechanisms, searches for new particles like vector-like quarks, and investigations of quantum chromodynamics (QCD) dynamics. He has published extensively on topics ranging from jet flavor tagging to environmental sustainability of high-energy physics computing.

Advises several graduate students and collaborates internationally on ATLAS-related projects. His lab focuses on leveraging large-scale computing and machine learning to enhance particle physics analysis capabilities.