Thomas Strauss Email & Phone Number

Accelerator Support group leader - Managing a team of engineers and technicians to support FNAL’s accelerator magnet needs; mainly the repair of actively used, refurbishment of failed, design of new and maintaining a stockpile of spare inventory magnets.Other Work as Scientist at Fermilab:AUP/ LHC HiLumi Accelerator Upgrade Project - Deputy Manager II for the Q1/Q3 Cryo-Assembly Fabrication. The project goal is manufacturing 10 superconducting magnet quadrupole assemblies for the high energy LHC upgrade by 2028. Mu2e project - Design, development and prototyping of the Magnetic Field Mapper; Development of a test facility for precision Hall probe calibration; Design, develop and install the Cold Mass Position Monitor to measure how the magnets, cooled to 4.5 Kelvin, will move inside their cryostats.Oakridge STS & PPU - Project Lead for the Fermilab work scope for the Proton Power Upgrade (PPU) project and Second Target Station magnet, boutique designs that will be fabricated as contract work within the DOE complex.LCLS-II HE - Sponsor Office Technical Representative for superconducting SPQA magnet packagePIP2 - L4 Manager responsible for new magnets in the Booster (Orbump, CFM and Painting Magnets), the main injector (Gamma T-jump).Neutrino Physics Experiments - SBND, DUNE

Chicago, Illinois, United States

UP/ LHC HiLumi Accelerator Upgrade Project - Deputy Manager II for the Q1/Q3 Cryo-Assembly Fabrication. The project goal is manufacturing 10 superconducting magnet quadrupole assemblies for the high energy LHC upgrade by 2028. Mu2e project - Design, development and prototyping of the Magnetic Field Mapper; Development of a test facility for precision Hall probe calibration; Design, develop and install the Cold Mass Position Monitor to measure how the magnets, cooled to 4.5 Kelvin, will move inside their cryostats.Oakridge STS & PPU - Project Lead for the Fermilab work scope for the Proton Power Upgrade (PPU) project and Second Target Station magnet, boutique designs that will be fabricated as contract work within the DOE complex.LCLS-II HE - Sponsor Office Technical Representative for superconducting SPQA magnet packageNeutrino Physics Experiments - SBND (Laser System), DUNE (design Studies for near detector complex)

Batavia, Illinois, Usa

Mu2e project - Design, development and prototyping of the Magnetic Field Mapper; Development of a test facility for precision Hall probe calibration; Design, develop and install the Cold Mass Position Monitor to measure how the magnets, cooled to 4.5 Kelvin, will move inside their cryostats; Development and Certification of Single Stretch Wire measurements stand for Transport Solenoid segments.Instrumentation Upgrade: Leading the strain gauge analysis in and moving department to a new real-time data taking system, training of technicians and engineers in utilizing the system for magnet assembly and testing.US Magnet Development program: MDPCT01: Conduct experiment of the 15T Dipole prototype, analysis of magnetic measurements, strain gauges and training;MBHDP01, MBHSP01 prototypes: Conduct experiments of the dipole and the double aperture 12 Tesla prototypes, magnet training, analysis of magnetic measurements, strain gauges and quench analysis and report of the results.LCLS-II: SPQA magnet series. Leading the cold quench experiments for the SPQA magnets, cold and warm magnetic measurement, data analysis and measurement report. Use of a rotating coil probe to measure the harmonics, transfer function and determine the magnetic center via a vibrating wire measurement at room temperature. Development and commissioning of a new vibrating wire test stand and software to automatize the measurements.LARP: MQXFS1 prototype. Conduct multiple experiments of the first short prototype magnet for the HiLumi upgrade, analysis of magnetic measurements, strain gauge and quench data analysis and training history, R&D with LBL on a new Quench Antenna to localize the quench location to a few mm and report of the results.G-2: New Inflector Magnet. Conduct Field Mapping campaign for the prototype magnet and present the results to the review panel.FAST-IOTA: ASQA magnet series. Measurement of the ASQA magnet series after refurbishing Neutrino Physics Experiments - MicroBooNE

Bern Area, Switzerland

Post-Doctoral Researcher. Development of automatic reconstruction software for Data Analysis for the OPERA experiment in LNGS, Gran Sasso, Italy. R & D and prototyping of a new UV laser system for efficiency studies of the MicroBooNE experiment at Fermilab, Batavia, USA.R & D towards large scale liquid argon detectors for future neutrino research, ArgonTube, Bern Switzerland.Studies on high voltage breakdown in liquid argon and mitigation.Prototyping novel solutions for detector R & D and construction.

Zürich Area, Switzerland

Graduate Student at ETH Zurich in the Rubbia group http://www.rubbia-group.ethz.ch/the-group.htmlData Analysis of neutrino induced charm decays for the OPERA experiment (LNGS, Gran Sasso, Italy) and R&D for novel liquid argon detectors, mainly focusing on a high-temperature superconducting magnet for liquid argon time projection chambers

Doctor Of Science, Physics

Activities and Societies: Erasmus Student Network 2005 - 2012

Master'S Degree, Physics, Very Good

Activities and Societies: Physics Student Union 2001-2004, Student Representative for the faculty board 2002-2004, Member Erasmus Student.