Klaus Rabbertz obtained his Ph.D. in 1998 at the RWTH Aachen for research
performed within the H1 experiment at the electron-proton collider HERA. As a
CERN research fellow he worked within the OPAL experiment at the e+e- collider
LEP. Since 2002, he is a member of the CMS Collaboration at the LHC as senior
scientist for the University of Karlsruhe, now Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
(KIT). Initially, he spearheaded the worldwide deployment of the CMS software
and was the senior production manager for CMS at the German Tier 1 computing
site GridKa. Since 2007, he lead physics working groups for CMS and lectured on
jet physics. He is recognised as one of the most prominent researchers on QCD and
jets at the LHC.
