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http://friedl.hephy.at/cv
Life
I was
born on 18 July 1973 in Vienna, Austria, and still live there.
I am a widower and have one son, Konrad, who was born on 28 July 2013.
My
personal interests and skills are of course electronics, especially
analog measurement and data acquisition systems, as well as computers
and networking. My hobbies are art history (especially architecture
and painting), classic music, rock music of the 60s and 70s as well as pop of
the 80s and electronic music, badminton, skiing and bicycle riding.
As
it is obvious from the signature on these pages, cats are my favorite
animals. I've a cat at home (photos).
My
mother tongue is German, but I am also fluent in English. In terms
of software, I am familiar with Pascal and C programming languages
as well as Windows and Linux systems.
Education
After
kindergarten, I attended primary school from 1979 until 1983,
followed by BRG 12 Rosasgasse
(grammar school) from where I graduated in 1991 with distinction.
Documents:
Final Annual Report,
Graduation Report
In
June 1991, I won the 3rd prize at the Austrian Physics Olympiad
which was rewarded by participation in a 14-days scientific congress
in London called LIYSF.
Document:
Certificate
 Starting
in 1991, I studied Electrical
Engineering at the Vienna
University of Technology. In January 1999, I took my diploma
exam (MEng) with distinction. My Diploma
Thesis was about the development of diamond detectors for
ionizing radiation, which was the topic I was working on at that
time (see next section).
Document:
Diploma Certificate
In
the summer terms of 1993 to 1995, i was a employed by the University
as a tutor for an introductory programming course ("Einführung
in das Programmieren für Anwender") which i took myself as
a student in 1992, teaching students how to program in Turbo Pascal.
In
1995, I was the chairman of the Viennese Local Committee of EESTEC,
which is an international organisation of Electrical Engineering
students. We organized student exchanges with Cracow, Budapest,
Aachen, Stockholm and Helsinki.
As
I enjoy academic work, I decided to head for the doctoral degree,
which was completed in May 2001. My dissertation
was focussed on the Silicon Strip Tracker of the CMS
experiment at CERN (CH). I finished
my PhD study with distinction.
Document:
Dissertation Certificate
Although
there never was much doubt, I finally decided to pursue an academic
career which not only includes research, but also teaching. Thus
my next career target is to become Dozent (assistant professor).
Academic
Work
 Since
1995, I've been working with the Institute
of High Energy Physics (HEPHY) of the Austrian
Academy of Sciences. Initially, I had a part-time job with
the Department
of Semiconducting Detectors, but soon became a member of the
Electronics
II Group, which I am leading since January 2007. I have a
permanent (staff) position at HEPHY.
 In
1995, my work with HEPHY began with maintenance on gas detectors
of the DELPHI
experiment at CERN (CH), before
I switched over to diamond detector research as a member of the
CERN RD42 collaboration,
which was also the topic of my Diploma
Thesis. Already in 1998, I commenced my work on the CMS
Silicon Strip Tracker,
which later became the subject of my PhD
thesis.
 In
early 1999, i was employed at MIT
and BNL (USA) for three months,
where I took part in the construction and installation of the
Silicon Spectrometer of the PHOBOS
experiment, which was commissioned in 1999 and operated until
2005.
Document:
Letter of Recommendation
In
the early 2000s, my work was focused on CMS and its Analog
Optohybrids in particular, where I was responsible for the
design, production and testing of almost 14,000 devices. In parallel,
there were some side projects such as the TRHX
temperature and monitoring system or the Cooling
Box, of which we built eleven systems (including computer
controlled power supply and TRHX measurement) that were used by
collaborating institutes.
 In
2000, HEPHY joined the Belle
experiment at KEK
in Japan. The Electronics II group contributed to the readout
electronics of the present Silicon Vertex Detector (SVD2) which
was installed in 2003 and has been running successfully since
then. A previously considered intermediate upgrade of the SVD
was eventually dropped in favor of the current Belle experiment
running until (at least) 2009, followed by a full
upgrade with a significantly enlarged SVD.
In
2002, I started R&D for the future upgrade of the Belle Silicon
Vertex Detector. Since then, we designed and constructed several
prototype silicon detector modules as well as readout systems
for both test purposes and the future Belle SVD system. Development
is ongoing in the fields of detectors, for which I devised the
Origami
chip-on-sensor concept, as well as readout
and control electronics at full scale.
 In
October 2008, HEPHY organized the exhibition LHC2008
related to the inauguration of the world's largest machine
searching for the smallest particles of the universe (subtitle).
I developed several animated objects for display which I built
together with my colleagues of the Electronics II group and the
Machine Shop at HEPHY. One of them is a 3D model of the LHC with
more than 600 LEDs demonstrating the acceleration of protons through
various stages until they finally collide in the experiments (photo).
Since 2006, I am the head of the Electronics group at HEPHY. Initially, there were two distinctive groups (of which I led one), which merged in 2010 under my supervision. Moreover, I am also leading the machine shop of the institute - 15 persons altogether (excluding myself). Apart
from academic work, I am also the fire safety engineer (Brandschutzbeauftragter)
at HEPHY.
From late 2009 until mid-2013 (paternity leave), I was the co-covener of the Belle II Silicon Vertex Detector (SVD) group togehter with Toru Tsuboyama (KEK, Japan), thus responsible for this sub-detector of the future Belle II experiment. Since 2014, I am the leader of the SVD electronics group and deputy leader of the SVD mechanics group. In 2011, I officially started as a lecturer assigned to the Vienna University of Technology, teaching lab courses to students of physics at HEPHY. (In fact, I did this already before the official assignment.)
In 2011, HEPHY organized three conferences, and I was responsible for the biggest one, TWEPP 2011, with 237 participants from all over the world (more than ever before in this conference series). Driven by this success, I chaired two more meetings in Vienna in early 2012, the Belle II SVD-PXD meeting, followed by the Belle II & SuperB Background meeting. Moreover, I participated in the organization of the VCI 2013 in February 2013, which was held (for the first time) at the same venue as the previous TWEPP 2011. I will also be in the local organizing team for the 2016 issue of the VCI.
Apart from administrative duties, my present work is clearly focussed on the Silicon Vertex Detector of Belle II; the second task is building exhibits for outreach purposes and moreover, my group is also active in the Pixel readout electronics upgrade for the CMS experiment.
Other
Work
Between
1989 and 1995, I had several summer jobs with Siemens,
IBM, Honeywell
and Shell companies. The majority
of these jobs dealt with computer programming.
Documents: Siemens
1989, IBM 1990, IBM
1991, Honeywell 1991, Shell
1992, Shell 1993, Shell
1994, Siemens 1995
Between
1997 and 1999, I designed three Web sites for small companies:
a phone card producer, a wine
merchant (together with G. Zucker) and a consulting
company (together with M. Liebhart).
Publications
The
list below contains only publications of which I am the main author
(or at least wrote substantial parts of the article). Other papers
that bear my name in a long author list are not shown here, but
can be found through special search engines which are linked at
the bottom of this list.
1999
2000
2001
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
- M.Regler, R.Frühwirth,
M.Friedl: Improvement of Particle
Identification by Energy Loss in a Stack of Silicon Detectors,
Como 2005 proceedings published in Astroparticle, Particle and
Space Physics, Detectors and Medical Physics Applications, ISBN
981-256-798-4 (2006), p. 98-102
- M.Friedl
et al.: (Belle SVD Group): Belle
Silicon Vertex Detector for the Super B Factory, Vertex
2005 proceedings published in NIM A569 (2006) 37-40
- M.Friedl, C.Irmler,
M.Pernicka: Occupancy
Reduction in Silicon Strip Detectors with the APV25 Chip,
Vertex 2005 proceedings published in NIM A569 (2006) 92-97
- M.Friedl, C.Irmler,
M.Pernicka: Time
Resolution of a Few Nanoseconds in Silicon Strip Detectors Using
the APV25 Chip, 12th Workshop on Electronics for LHC and
Future Experiments (2006)
2007
2008
2009
- Co-author of S.Haensel
et al.: Resolution
Studies on Silicon Strip Sensors with Fine Pitch, arXiv:0901.4903v2
[physics.ins-det] 19 Feb 2009
- M.Friedl:
Nanosecond
Time Resolution for the Belle II Silicon Vertex Detector - Getting
the Maximum Out of the APV25 Readout Chip, invited talk
at the 7th International Meeting on Front-End Electronics, 19
May 2009
- M.Friedl:
ILLUMINATI
- Fiktion & Fakten, 3 June 2009 (in German, public lecture)
- M.Friedl: The
Silicon Vertex Detector upgrade for Belle II, invited seminar
talk at RIKEN, Wakoshi, Japan, 10 July 2009
- M.Friedl, C.Irmler,
M.Pernicka: Readout
and Data Processing Electronics for the Belle-II Silicon Vertex
Detector, TWEPP 2009 Workshop
- C.Irmler, M.Friedl,
M.Pernicka: Construction
and Performance of a Double-Sided Silicon
Detector Module Using the Origami Concept, TWEPP 2009 Workshop
- Co-author of W.Kiesenhofer et al.: Beam test results for fine pitched multigeometry silicon strip detectors, Proceedings of the 11th ICATPP Conference on Astroparticle, Particle, Space Physics, Detectors and Medical Physics Applications, Como, 16 October 2009
2010
- M.Friedl:
Upgrade of the Belle Silicon
Vertex Detector, TIPP09 proceedings, NIM A622 (2010) 377-379
- M.Friedl:
ILLUMINATI
- Fiktion & Fakten, 8 March 2010 (in German, school lecture at BG Zehnergasse, Wiener Neustadt)
- C.Irmler, M.Friedl,
M.Pernicka: Online Data Processing and Hit Time Reconstruction for Silicon
Detector Readout, Elba 2009 proceedings, NIM
A617 (2010) 280-282
- M.Dragicevic, M.Friedl et al.: Optimising the Strip Geometry for Very Fine Pitch Silicon
Strip, Elba 2009 proceedings, NIM A617 (2010) 532-533
- M.Friedl, H.Steininger, M.Pernicka: The Phase 1 Upgrade of the CMS Pixel Front-End Driver, TWEPP 2010 workshop, JINST 5 C12054
- C.Irmler, T.Bergauer, M.Friedl, M.Valentan, I.Gfall: Electronics and Mechanics for the Silicon Vertex Detector of the Belle II Experiment, TWEPP 2010 workshop, JINST 5 C12043
2011
- M.Friedl, T.Bergauer, C.Irmler, M.Valentan, I.Gfall: The
Silicon Vertex Detector of the Belle II Experiment, VCI 2010 proceedings, NIM A628 (2011), Iss. 1, 103-106
- M.Friedl: The Incredible Power of an FIR Filter - Signal Conditioning in the Belle II Silicon Vertex Detector (SVD) Readout Chain, Belle II Note B2N/0007, 18 March 2011
- M.Friedl et al.: The Silicon Vertex Detector of the Belle II Experiment, poster presentation at the annual meeting of the Austrian Physics Society (ÖPG), Lausanne, 15 June 2011
- M.Friedl: ILLUMINATI
- Fiktion & Fakten, 29 June 2011 (in German, public lecture at Ökopark Hartberg)
- C.Irmler, M.Friedl et al.: Efficient Signal Conditioning by a FIR Filter for Analog Signal Transmission over Long Lines, TWEPP 2011 workshop, JINST Volume 7 2012 C01082
2012
- M.Friedl: ILLUMINATI
- Fiktion & Fakten, 25 January 2012 (in German, public lecture at Haus der Natur, Salzburg)
- M.Friedl et al.: The Silicon Vertex Detector of Belle II, Proceedings of Science PoS (Vertex 2011) 022, 4 January 2012
- M.Friedl: ILLUMINATI
- Fiktion & Fakten, 25 January 2012 (in German, public lecture at Mehrzweckhalle Wulkaprodersdorf)
- M.Friedl: ILLUMINATI
- Fiktion & Fakten, 25 January 2012 (in German, public lecture at Schlossmuseum Peuerbach)
- M.Nakao, C.Lim, M.Friedl, T.Uchida: Minimizing Dead Time of the Belle II Data Acquisition System with Pipelined Trigger Flow Control, submitted to IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, 3 July 2012
- M.Friedl et al.: The Belle II Silicon Vertex Detector, TIPP2011 proceedings, Physics Procedia 37 (2012) 867–873, 4 October 2012
2013
- T.Bergauer, M.Friedl et al.: Recent Progress in Sensor- and Mechanics-R&D for the Belle II Silicon Vertex Detector, Elba 2012 proceedings, NIM A718 (2013) 279-282
- M.Valentan, M.Friedl et al.: Comparison of n-side strip isolation methods for silicon sensors, 2012 JINST 7 P11020
- C.Irmler, M.Friedl et al.: Origami chip-on-sensor design: progress and new developments, TWEPP 2012 proceedings, 2013 JINST 8 C01014
- M.Nakao, C.Lim, M.Friedl, T.Uchida: Minimizing Dead Time of the Belle II Data Acquisition System with Pipelined Trigger Flow Control, IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, vol. 60, no. 5, October 2013
- M.Friedl et al.: The Belle II Silicon Vertex Detector readout chain, TWEPP 2012 proceedings, 2013 JINST 8 C02037
- M.Friedl et al.: The Belle II Silicon Vertex Detector, VCI 2013 proceedings, NIM A732 (2013) 83–86
2014
2015
2016
2017
Apart
from the list above, i am co-author of numerous RD42,
CMS, Phobos
and Belle collaboration papers
which can be found using dedicated search engines:
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