Olivier Dadoun
Laboratoire de l'Accelerateur Lineaire
room 204 Building 208 B.P. 34
F-91898 ORSAY CEDEX France
phone +33 (0)1 64 46 89 16
fax +33 (0)1 69 07 94 04

Current Activity

Post-doctoral position at ILC/MDI Laboratoire de l'Accélérateur Linéaire Orsay group

Scientific Activities

Since January 2005: Post-doctoral fellow at the MDI group of LAL-Orsay

2000-2003: PhD thesis at APC-PCC laboratory (Collège de Fance) Nuclear reactors neutrinos measurement in Borexino experimen"

2002-2003: Marie Curie Training Site Fellowship at the INFN (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Gran Sasso - Italy) for the electronic implantation of the Borexino experiment;

March - July 1999: DÉA training course at LPNHE (Paris VI&VII), directed by Professor François Vannucci. Realization and simulation of the detection efficiency by the Monte Carlo method on an experiment allowing to detect gamma as a result of solar neutrinos decay (nu-->nu'+ gamma);

June - July 1998: Maîtrise training course on the Hellaz experiment at the PCC (Collège de France), directed by Philippe Gorodetsky. Study on the electron drift in a Time Projection chamber (TPC);

Education

June 2003: PhD thesis in particle physics (with distinction);

1998 - 1999  : DÉA Physique et Technologie des Grands Instruments (grade B), Paris VII University;

1997 - 1998  : Maîtrise (~ Master of Arts) in fundamental physics (grade B), Paris VII University;

1996 - 1997 : Licence (~ BA) in fundamental physics (grade B), Paris VII University.

Skills

Languages
- English: good level
- Spanish, Italian: Good oral comprehension

Computer Science
- Operating sysrtems : Linux, Unix, Windows and Mac OS X;
Languages: Fortran, C (data acquisition, communication protocols, scientific calculations), C++, Perl, shell script;
- Data Bases SQL;
- Science software: Mathematica and specifics programs (Guinea-Pig, Geant IV, ROOT...);
- Web : xhtml, css, php, javascript, SPIP;
- Cluster machines and Grid (LCG-EGEE and Desktop Grid).

Employment:

January 2004-December2005: Adaptation of software (Sphère) to Mac OS X system developed in C++ for Windows. The purpose of Sphère technology is to create three dimensional interfaces. It uses object oriented languages and open GL technology;

2002-2004 : Support professor under contract to ARIS Association Régionale pour l'Intégration des sourds (Association for the deaf);

Juillet - décembre 2003 : Elaboration of a content for a Science museum: conception of the theme elementary structure of matter;

June -August 1997: Database administrator for Becker & Associates Chemistry Company.