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José Miguel Jiménez Carvajal (Spanish; born December 13, 1968) is a spanish applied physicist, currently Director of the Technology Department at CERN. He is an expert in the vacuum techolonogy area for beams of particles of high energies and intensities and also in phenomena induced by beam circulation, including electron avalanche mechanisms.

Biography
José Miguel Jiménez is an engineer in applied physics, receiving his diploma from the Engineering Graduate School of Clermont Ferrand (France) and his Ph.D. in Applied Physics and Surfaces Physics from the CEA Saclay center (France).

After finishing his Ph.D., he remained in the CEA Saclay center as responsible of establishing R&D collaborations in new technologies between this center and large surface treatment and thin layers industries in France. In 1994 he joined the CERN as applied physicist and started to work in the LEP (large electron and positron collider). Two years later, he became Project Engineer leader related to the LEP and also to the SPS project (Super proton synchrotron).

In 2002, as Section leader, he assumes the responsibility for the installation, preparation and commissioning of the straight sections of the LHC (Large Hadron Collider). After that, he is promoted to Group Leader of the Vacuum, Surfaces and Coatings, integrating all aspects of engineering, instrumentation and coatings by chemical processes or plasma.

Since 2014, he leads the Technology Department at CERN, in charge of the technologies related to the particles accelerators of the organisation: a team essential for the development of new projects where more than 700 persons work.

On July 2016, José Miguel Jiménez was awarded with the Order of Alfonso X The Wise, a Spanish civil decoration for his outstanding experience in the field of research and scientific management in particle physics. He received it in a ceremony held on July 12, 2016 at the National Library of Spain.