Christophe Royon

Dr. Royon joined KU's Physics Department in 2016 after serving as Director of Research at the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA). He is a specialist of nuclear and high energy physics and worked on the proton and heavy ion structure, as well as potential signal of beyond standard model physics at the HERA, DESY, Hamburg, Germany, the Tevatron, Fermilab, and the LHC, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland, colliders. 

In 2021, Dr. Royon and his KU team found experimental evidence for the existence of the odderon quasiparticle as a result of analyzing proton collisions at high speeds. Dr. Royon was awarded the Humboldt Research Award in Germany in 2018 and the High Energy Physics Prize by the European Physics Society in 2013 and 2019 for the Higgs boson discovery and the discovery and analysis of the top quark, respectively. He received the gold medal of the Mexican Physical Society, Division of Particle and Fields, in 2022.

Learn more about Christophe Royon on KU's Experts at KU website.