Ingrid-Maria Gregor leads the ATLAS group at DESY and is a specialist in detector development, especially silicon tracking detectors. Her group is responsible for producing an endcap of the silicon tracking detector for the upgrade of the ATLAS experiment for the high-luminosity phase of the Large Hadron Collier (LHC) at CERN. She is also Professor for Detector Physics at the University of Bonn.

Throughout her scientific career, Ingrid Gregor has been working in large international particle physics collaborations, such as DELPHI at the LEP collider and ATLAS at the LHC, both based at CERN, as well as HERMES and ZEUS at the HERA collider at DESY. She is an expert in the sensors to detect the particles, the complex detector systems and the reconstruction of particle physics events from the data taken. In all collaborations, she has carried responsibilities in significant parts of detector development, construction and operation. 

After doing her PhD at ATLAS, she worked for the HERA experiment HERMES on developing and constructing the recoil detector for the final phase of HERMES operations. After moving to a different part of the HERA ring to the ZEUS experiment, she became the ZEUS calorimeter coordinator. At the same time, she started developing a high-resolution pixel beam telescope, which is used today at test beams at DESY, CERN and SLAC to study newly developed detectors.

After re-joining the ATLAS collaboration, she is now leading the ATLAS group at DESY, one of the largest groups in the international ATLAS collaboration, which is focusing on operation and data analysis. It is also heavily involved in preparing ATLAS for the luminosity upgrade of the LHC. 

Additionally, Ingrid Gregor is working on research and development of next-generation silicon tracking detectors for future particle physics tracking detectors. The goal of this work is new pixel detectors that are thinner, faster and have a much better spatial resolution. 

Ingrid Gregor is currently Chairperson of the Scientific Committee at DESY, a committee advising the DESY Directorate in strategic questions on research at DESY.

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