Karl Jakobs is Professor of Particle Physics at the University of Freiburg, Germany.

[1] He was the Spokesperson (scientific head) of the ATLAS Collaboration at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN from 2017 to 2021.

[2] Jakobs studied at the University of Bonn and received his Diplom in 1984.

He went to the Heidelberg University to study the properties of the production of W and Z bosons in proton-proton collisions and received his PhD in 1988.

[3] In 2015 Karl Jakobs was awarded the Stern–Gerlach Medal for his contributions to the discovery of the Higgs boson.