Contact Information

Department of Physics and Astronomy
Purdue University
525 Northwestern Avenue
W. Lafayette, IN 47907 USA

Phone: +1 (765) 494-5198
Fax: +1 (765) 494-0706
E-mail: neumeist@purdue.edu

Education

• Ph.D. in Physics, University of Technology Vienna, 1996
• M.S. in Physics, University of Technology Vienna, 1992

Professional Positions

2014 – present    Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Purdue University, USA

2010 – 2014         Associate Professor, Department of Physics, Purdue University, USA

2005 – 2010         Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, Purdue University, USA

2002 – 2004         Scientific Associate, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland

2002 – 2004         Scientific Staff, Institute for High Energy Physics Vienna, Austria

1999 – 2001         Research Fellow, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland

1996 – 1999         Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Inst. for High Energy Physics Vienna, Austria

Awards and Honors

• Department of Energy (DoE) Outstanding Junior Investigator Award in High Energy Physics 2006
• Ruth & Joel Spira Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Education, Physics Department 2008
• Seed for Success Award, Purdue University 2006, 2007, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2019
• Purdue Research Foundation Research Grant 2005, 2006
• CERN research fellowship 1999 – 2001
• Co-recipient of the Particle Physics Prize of the European Physical Society 2013 awarded to the CMS collaboration for the discovery of a Higgs boson)
• LHC Physics Center (LPC) Distinguished Researcher 2017, 2018

Professional Memberships

• Member of the American Physical Society
• Member of the European Physical Society
• Member of the Austrian Physical Society
• Member of the CMS collaboration (1993 – present)
• Member of the DELPHI collaboration (1992 – 1999)
• Member of the UA1 collaboration (1991 – 1993)

Professional Service

• Principal investigator of the US CMS Tier-2 analysis center at Purdue (2005 – present)
• Purdue Institutional Representative to the CMS Collaboration Board (2013 – present)
• Member of the CMS Thesis Award Committee (2018 – present)
• LPC Management Board (2019 – 2020)
• Co-convener of the LPC Run2 Discussion group on Leptons and Trigger (2017 – 2020)
• Co-convener of the CMS Muon Physics Object group (2007): ~80 people Responsible for organizing and providing intellectual leadership for the development of muon reconstruction and identification strategies across all sub-detector systems (muon detectors, electromagnetic and hadronic calorimeter, silicon tracker) in preparation for physics with muons at the LHC.
• Co-convener of the CMS Muon Physics Reconstruction and Selection group (2005 – 2006): ~100 people Responsible for organizing the detector simulation, muon reconstruction, online trigger strategies, and offline analyses in preparation for physics with muons at the LHC. Editor of muon chapter of Volume I of the CMS Physics Technical Design Report.
• Co-convener of the CMS reconstruction software project (2004 – 2005): ~150 people Responsible for coordinating all reconstruction software development within CMS and organizing software releases.
• Member and chair of various CMS Analysis Review Committees
• Chair of the Organization Committee for the US CMS Computing workshop at Purdue University (April 11–12, 2008)
• Chair of the Organization Committee for the CMS Endcap Muon workshop at Purdue University (October 6–7, 2006)
• Member of the CMS Physics Reconstruction and Selection editorial board (2004 – 2006)
• Worldwide LHC Computing Grid (WLCG) collaboration board member (2006 – 2011)
• Frequent reviewer of Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research
• Frequent reviewer of IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science
• Frequent reviewer of Journal of Physics
• Reviewer of U.S. National Science Foundation proposals
• Reviewer of U.S. Department of Energy proposals
• Reviewer for the Portuguese Funding agency (FCT)
• Chair of the session on New Phenomena Physics at conference Moriond/QCD 2018
• Chair of the session on LHC Physics at the conference Physics in Collision 2023

Department:

• Council of Department of Physics and Astronomy, Purdue University (2015 – present)
• Graduate admissions committee Department of Physics and Astronomy, Purdue University (2007 – present)
• Graduate recruitment committee (2023 -2024)
• Hubert James Lecture committee (2018 – present)
• Departmental promotion committee (2015 – present)
• Qualifying exam committee (2013 – 2020)
• Big Data search committee (2013 – 2015)
• Chair of the faculty search committee Experimental High Energy Physics (2019)
• Faculty search committee Theoretical High Energy Physics (2018)
• Faculty search committee Experimental High Energy Physics (2014)
• Faculty search committee Experimental High Energy Physics (2013)
• Head search committee Department of Physics and Astronomy (2013)
• Head search committee Department of Physics (2012)
• Faculty search committee Experimental High Energy Physics (2010)
• Faculty search committee Computer Science department (2006)
• Faculty search committee Nuclear Physics (2007)
• Faculty search committee Particle Astro Physics (2006)
• Departmental computing committee (2006 – 2013)
• Committee for the Lark-Horovitz, Akeley, Black, Fan and Tautfest awards (2008, 2011, 2012)
• Committee for the Raman and Ramdas awards (2019)
• Strategic Planning Department of Physics and Astronomy (2017, 2018)

College:

• Purdue College of Science faculty council (2021 – present)
• Undergraduate Education Policy and Curriculum (2023 - 2024)
• College of Science Promotions Committee (2017 – 2019)

University:

• Purdue University faculty senate (2015 – 2018)
• Purdue University Resources Policy Committee (2016 – 2018)
• High performance computing University committee (2006)
• Computational Sciences & Engineering Graduate Committee (2007 – present)
• Computing Research Institute (CRI) Steering Committee (2007, 2008)

Publications

The complete list of publications can be found at INSPIRE HEP. You can also find my articles on my Google Scholar profile.