Stephanie Zimmermann

As ATLAS Run-Coordinator she was in charge of running the detector. Zimmermann said, "It was a very interesting phase because my first half in that role was the main part of data taking during the period up to the discovery of the Higgs. It was then followed by the first half of the shutdown with all the improvement works and managing the maintenance, and now also managing the start of getting things back together into a state for the run of 2015..."

Zimmermann was elected ATLAS run coordinator for a two-year term, March 2012 – March 2014.

She was also awarded the 2006 Marc Virchaux Prize "for best Ph.D. thesis concerned with the design and construction of, and the analysis of data from, the ATLAS muon spectrometer."

Zimmermann received university awards for the best master's thesis and also for the best 2004 doctoral thesis, which was titled, "High Rate and Ageing Studies for the Drift Tubes of the ATLAS Muon Spectrometer".

As a master's student in 1999, Zimmermann joined the ATLAS experiment, working on the muon system of the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. She continued her work in the ATLAS collaboration during her doctoral thesis, a research fellowship at CERN, and as a University of Freiburg researcher.

Stephanie Zimmermann (October 29, 1973-November 10, 2020) was a German physicist who worked on the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. As a researcher from the University of Freiburg, she was involved in the Muon Detector Control System activities, and she served as muon run-coordinator. She was elected and served as ATLAS Run-Coordinator in 2012–2014. She then became Project Leader of the New Small Wheel project (NSW), part of an extensive upgrade, the largest phase 1 upgrade project for the ATLAS detector.