Welcome to Marco Cattaneo's home page

This is my personal home page. Look at my professional home page for more work related information. 

I am married to Jackie and we have two daughters, Chiara and Carlotta. 

A selection of family photographs from 2004 to 2007 can be found by putting the appropriate year in this link: http://cattaneb.home.cern.ch/cattaneb/photos/year/. Earlier photos can be found here.

The remaining photographs of me are "work" related:

Watching first LHC collisions at 3.5+3.5 TeV, 30th March 2010

Teaching LHCb software in Bologna, 6th-8th June 2006
Skiing with colleagues at the Vallee Blanche, 17th March 2004
More skiing with colleagues, in Les Contamines, 3rd February 2004 (see especially here, here and here)
Walking with Jackie and colleagues at the Col du Tricot, 21st September 2003

At the CHEP03 conference in La Jolla, California, March 2003
Skiing with colleagues in Flaine, 12th February 2003
Skiing with colleagues in Les Contamines, 20th March 2002

Eating with colleagues on 21st September 2001, Isla de Itacuruça, Brasil
Eating with colleagues on 12th December 2000.

At a dinner in Cassis on 22nd September 2000.

On a visit to the Aleph experiment on 23rd February 1999.

We skied the Vallee Blanche on 26th March 1998

Drinking with colleagues at the end of ECP Division party, Centre Jean Monnet, St.Genis, 9th December 1997

Eating (again!) with colleagues at an LHCb Barbecue, La Chenaille, 19th September 1997

Playing water frisbee in the Allondon river, 15th July 1997

Skiing with colleagues at St.Gervais, January 1996

I live in  St.Genis-Pouilly (where I am a town councillor) and work at CERN, on the LHCb experiment.

Until 2000 I worked on the Aleph experiment and was a volunteer guide for the CERN Visits Service

I obtained my Ph.D. at Imperial College, London in 1987, working on the NA14/2 experiment at CERN. My thesis is here.

I graduated from Downing College, Cambridge in 1982. Here is the matriculation photograph from 1979, I am no. 17 on the detail!

Marco's bookmarks at CERN saved on 6th December 2005. 

  31 March 2010