Vuko Brigljević

Dr. Vuko Brigljević is Associate Professor of Physics at the University of Zagreb Faculty of Science and serves as Head of the Laboratory for Particle Physics within the Division of Experimental Physics at the Ruđer Bošković Institute (RBI) in Zagreb. He is also President of Croatia’s Expert Scientific Council for Physics.

Education:

• PhD in Physics, ETH Zürich, Switzerland (1999)
• Diploma in Physics, ETH Zürich, Switzerland (1993)

Research Interests:
Dr. Brigljević’s research spans particle physics, high-energy collider physics, Higgs physics, flavor & CP-violation studies, beyond-standard-model searches, heavy-ion physics, and detector instrumentation. He leads Croatian participation in the CMS Collaboration at CERN’s LHC, exploiting proton-proton and heavy-ion collisions to probe the Standard Model and search for new phenomena.

Recent work emphasizes precision measurements of Higgs and electroweak boson properties, searches for dark matter and leptoquark signatures, quarkonium suppression in heavy-ion collisions, and upgrades of CMS tracking and trigger systems for Run-3 and the High-Luminosity LHC era.

Scientific Awards:

• Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory FY2002 Science & Technology Award (as part of the LLNL BaBar team for the discovery of CP-violation in the B-meson system)

Teaching & Supervision:
Dr. Brigljević delivers the graduate course Method of Statistical Data Analysis in Particle Physics at the University of Zagreb, training students in advanced analysis techniques used in collider experiments.

Laboratory & Teams:
He oversees the Laboratory for Particle Physics at RBI, coordinating hardware R&D (including CMS tracker and trigger upgrades), software development, and physics analyses with a multidisciplinary team of post-docs, graduate students and engineers.