P. Krkotic

Patrick Krkotić (Student Member, IEEE) was born in Dieburg, Hessen, Germany in 1992. He received the B.Sc. degree in physics and the M.Sc. degree in nuclear physics and nuclear astrophysics from Technische Universität Darmstadt, Hessen, Germany, in 2014 and 2017, respectively. He is currently pursuing the Ph.D. degree in physics at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain, in collaboration with ALBA Synchrotron Light Source, Barcelona. In 2015, he spent a year abroad studying astrophysics at the University of Bristol, England, U.K. Since 2016, he has been involved in the Future Circular Collider design study for a new hadron–hadron collider at the CERN facility. His main work focuses on the usage of high-temperature superconductor coated conductors (HTS-CCs) as an alternative coating for beam screens in future particle accelerators. His research interest includes the development of radio frequency-based resonance-measurement systems for material characterization, particularly surface impedance under the influence of high magnetic fields and synchrotron radiation.