Hans Peter Beck (born 19 January 1965) is a Swiss experimental particle physicist and a former president of the Swiss Physical Society.

Beck is a member of the ATLAS collaboration, one of the two major experiments at CERN that analyze particle collisions at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), which led to the discovery of the Higgs boson in 2012.

[4][5][6] Finishing his doctorate at University of Zurich, related to research carried out at the DESY laboratory in Hamburg, in 1996,[7] Beck worked shortly a consultant and engineer in the private Swiss industry before taking up a position at the University of Bern.

[12] He is the Swiss liaison to the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics[13][14] and represented the Swiss Physical Society on the occasion of the opening ceremony of the International Year of Basic Sciences for Sustainable Development at UNESCO, Paris on 8 July 2022.

[16] Beck participates regularly in the public debate on matters implying physics.