Anna Sfyrla is an Associate Professor at the Nuclear and High Energy Physics Department of the University of Geneva. She studied physics at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, specialising in particle physics with a thesis on the CMS experiment. She then moved to the University of Geneva for her PhD, contributing first to the construction and surface commissioning of the ATLAS SCT and later to the Fermilab CDF experiment, where she focused on diboson physics and helped commission a diamond-based beam condition monitoring system. After completing her PhD in 2008, she returned to ATLAS, first as a postdoc at UIUC (USA), then as a CERN research fellow, and later as CERN staff. During this time, her work centred on the ATLAS trigger system, and she became involved in operations. She also conducted searches for new physics in hadronic final states.
She joined the University of Geneva as a faculty member in 2015 and, soon after, became involved in the TDAQ Phase-II upgrade, contributing to the development of the trigger system for the HL-LHC. With her research group at the University of Geneva, they primarily search for new physics in hadronic final states on ATLAS through both data analysis and trigger advancements for Run 3 and the HL-LHC. They are also involved in the FASER experiment and explore the potential of FCC-ee. Beyond research, she is actively engaged in education, outreach, and initiatives promoting equal opportunities in academia.