Members
Louvain-La-Neuve
Staff
Chiara Arina
My research activities relate to the dark matter problem within a particle physics perspective. My theoretical work focuses on dark matter model building in connection with the problem of generation of neutrino masses and/or of the visible matter. My phenomenological research focuses on various aspects of dark matter detection (direct, indirect and at collider), with a particular attention to the statistical approach.
Office: E.250
Email: chiara.arina@uclouvain.be
Giacomo Bruno
Experimental particle physicist doing research with the CMS experiment at the LHC collider of the CERN laboratory.
Currently involved in searches for signals of physics beyond the Standard Model; development of calibration and reconstruction techniques; operation of the Belgian Tier2 computing centre that is part of the World LHC Computing Grid; and upgrade of the CMS silicon tracker detector.
Eduardo Cortina Gil
Experimental particle physics. I'm mainly involved inNA62 experiment at CERN: detector completion and radiative kaon decays. I'm also interested in detector development for future experiments: monolithic pixel detectors and fine granularity calorimetry.
Céline Degrande
alternative scenarios of the electroweak symmetry breaking (EWSB), top phenomenology using an effective approach and FeynRules development.
Christophe Delaere
Experimental particle physicist working on the performances and operation of the CMS detector, as deputy run coordinator. Also involved in the measurement of the Zb(b) cross-section and kinematical properties at LHC. The goal is to measure the process with early data to pave to road to searches for new physics with similar signatures.
Thierry Delbar
Production and collection of Li8 and B8 nuclei to be used for the production of neutrino beams (project EuroNu)
Phone: (+32 10 4) 7 3202
Email: thierry.delbar@uclouvain.be
Marco Drewes
I combine studies of the early universe with the results of laboratory experiments and astronomical observations to address fundamental questions in particle physics and cosmology.
Claude Duhr
I am interested in higher-order computations in the Standard Model and in N=4 Supersymmetric theories.
Jean-Marc Gérard
Phenomenological aspects of the fundamental interactions, gravity included.
Andrea Giammanco
Experimental particle physicist. Interested in data analysis, simulations, phenomenology, non-HEP applications of HEP techniques (and vice versa). Member of the CMS collaboration and of the DELPHES project.
Jan Govaerts
The fundamental interactions, their theories and their quantum unification
Vincent Lemaitre
Experimentalist, CMS collaboration. Search for phenomena Beyond the Standard Model. In particular, in the scalar sector related to the electroweak symmetry breaking and in final states including top quarks. Also interested in the silicon tracker developments and construction for the next generation of experiments.
Fabio Maltoni
I am interested in the phenomenology of the standard model and beyond, and particularly in collider physics.
Krzysztof Piotrzkowski
Experimentalist. Studying high energy photon interactions at hadron colliders, specifically the photon quartic couplings to weak bosons. Originator of the
HPS project, which has eventually become part of the Proton Precision Spectrometer (PPS) proposed by CMS and Totem. Working on the PPS detector developments as novel timing detectors with picosecond resolution.
Research scientists
Jérôme de Favereau
CP3 website developement and maintenance, issue tracking system, general support, cluster maintenance, openstack deployement, CMS detector upgrade among other things...
Pavel Demin
I'm working for the CMS experiment. My current responsibilities: developing physics analysis software for CMS; heavy flavor jet tagging based on electron identification; enabling computing GRID at UCLouvain/CP3.
Olivier Mattelaer
Responsible software maintenance and development of MadGraph 5, AMC@NLO (including MadSpin and ALOHA). Study of new experimental approaches using the matrix element re-weighting.
Office: E.357
Andres Tanasijczuk
Computing support, Grid computing, CMS Remote Analysis Builder software.
Postdocs
Hamed Bakhshiansohi
My main interest is to search for top-Higgs anomalous couplings in single-top plus Higgs events, where the Higgs boson decays to two photons using the CMS experiment data. This is the only process that can determine the relative sign of the Higgs boson couplings to other bosons and fermions, at the leading order. The Higgs bosons decay to photons is expected to have the highest sensitivity among other Higgs decay modes, as the branching ratio of the H→γγ also changes by modifying the Higgs couplings to top-quark and W-boson.
Phone: (+32 10 4) 73217
Email: hbakhshi@cern.ch
Olivier Bondu
I am a CMS experimentalist interested in connections between the Higgs boson and physics Beyond the Standard Model. In particular I am working on di-Higgs production at the LHC in the HbbHgg and HbbHWW channels.
While the Standard Model cross-section of these process is very low, I am studying resonant production (WED, 2HDM, MSSM), and anomalous non-resonant production (EFT).
Claudio Caputo
I am an experimental particle physicist, member of the CMS collaboration. I am particularly interested in precision measurements of the Higgs boson and searches for new physics.
Office: E.164
Email: claudio.caputo@uclouvain.be
Sébastien Clesse
I'm interested by Cosmic Inflation, Primordial Black Holes as Dark Matter, Modified Gravity, cosmological constraints with future experiments (Euclid, SKA, CORE,...).
Pieter David
Experimental particle physicist, member of the CMS collaboration. Currently working on measurements of processes involving top quarks in order to constrain higher-order EFT operators.
Office: E.358
Email: pieter.david@uclouvain.be
Sandro Dias Pinto Vitenti
My current research lines are Primordial Cosmology (Bouncing Cosmologies), Numerical Cosmology, Data Analysis, Model Independent approaches in FLRW cosmology at low redshifts, Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation and Cosmic String Cosmology. In particular, my project, the NumCosmo -- Numerical Cosmology library contain several codes relative to all research lines above and additionally several others from collaborators.
Phone: (+32 10 4) 73155
Email: sandro.vitenti@uclouvain.be
Jan Hajer
BSM Phenomenology. Higgs physics, naturalness of the SM, SUSY.
Hidden particles at NA62.
Michele Lucente
I work on extensions of the Standard Model of particle physics aimed at accounting for the observed neutrino masses and flavour mixing, the origin of the baryon asymmetry of the Universe and the nature of dark matter.
I am currently developing a new computer tool (MadbaM) devoted to precision computations of the baryon asymmetry of the Universe in beyond the Standard Model realisations.
Ken Mimasu
Collider phenomenology beyond the Standard Model, particularly on extended scalar sectors (two-Higgs doublet models, axion-like particles). Probing the Electroweak phase transition at the LHC.
Confronting Baryogenesis via a strong electroweak phase transition with collider signatures at the LHC and beyond.
Precision Higgs measurements and global fits in the framework of effective field theory.
Office: E.256
Email: ken.mimasu@uclouvain.be
Liam Moore
I work on Top Quark Phenomenology in the Standard Model Effective Field Theory, and the development of the FeynRules package
Office: E.166
Email: l.moore@cern.ch
Plamen Petrov
Experimental particle physicist studying rare kaon decays at the NA62 experiment. At present my work is focused on firmware development for the NA62 trigger and data-acquisition system and the preparation for the measurement of lepton-flavour violating kaon decays.
Phone: (+32 10 4) 7 3218
Email: plamen.petrov@uclouvain.be
Jessica Prisciandaro
Experimentalist working on the CMS experiment at CERN. Current activities are a) search for long-lived Heavy Neutral Leptons, b) search for long-lived massive charged particles (HSCP), and c) silicon tracker calibration and operation
Office: E.260
Email: Jessica.Prisciandaro@cern.ch
Richard Ruiz
I am a high energy physicist and collider theorist. My primary research focuses on understanding the origin of tiny, nonzero neutrino masses and tests of neutrino mass models (Seesaw models) at collider experiments, such as the Large Hadron Collider. This includes extended gauge sectors (LR-Symmetric, GUT models), scalar sectors (SU(2)L doublets and triplets), and fermionic sectors (SU(2)L singlets and triplets). I have a particular interest in collider signatures involving initial-state electroweak vector bosons (vector boson fusion/scattering) and the impact of (resummed) QCD corrections on (new physics) collider processes. This includes resummation in the context of perturbative QCD and SCET.
Office: E.150
Email: richard.ruiz@uclouvain.be
Ambresh Shivaji
I work in the area of collider physics. My current research interests include phenomenology of loop-induced processes in the SM and beyond, higher order quantum corrections and model independent approach to the study of new physics effects (mainly in the Higgs sector) at colliders.
Office: E.149
Phone: (+32 10 4) 73275
Maksym Teklishyn
Ioannis Tsinikos
I am interested in collider phenomenology, focusing on Standard Model processes and beyond. At the current time I am working on EW corrections in ttbar production at the LHC.
Visitors
Probing fundamental interactions ...
André Füzfa
Professor at FUNDP, working in theoretical cosmology: interpretations of dark energy, observational constraints from structure formation, Hubble diagram, CMB, ... and on complex systems in general relativity: dynamical systems, multi-physics N-body simulations, numerical relativity.
Phone: (+32 10 4) 7 3217
Marco Musich
Experimental particle physicist working with the CMS experiment at the LHC collider of the CERN laboratory. Currently involved in searches for signals of physics beyond the Standard Model and development of detector alignment and calibration techniques.
Email: marco.musich@cern.ch
Christophe Ringeval
Early universe cosmology, CMB, inflationary cosmology, topological defects, string cosmology, data analysis.
PhD students
Florian Bury
Exploration of the use of deep neural networks for data analysis in CMS.
Office: E.258
Email: florian.bury@uclouvain.be
Martin Delcourt
Development of a new tracker for the CMS upgrade phase 2 and study of the feasibility of measurements at the HL-LHC.
Hesham El Faham
Probing the top quark-Higgs boson interaction with the CMS detector.
Office: E.359
Email: hesham.elfaham@uclouvain.be
Alina Kleimenova
PhD student in experimental physics. I'm working on searches for long-lived exotic particles at the NA62 experiment at CERN.
Office: E.257
Philipp Klose
PhD Student with Marco Drewes and Chiara Arina.
Office: E.254
Email: philipp.klose@uclouvain.be
Georgios Konstantinos Krintiras
Experimentalist in the realm of the CMS experiment at LHC, Geneva. I am studying processes involving single top quarks which provide direct probes of electroweak interactions. The second (2015-2018) operational period of LHC, with an expected luminosity of at least four times greater than its first round, will boost the sensitivity of the associated production of single top quarks with Higgs bosons. Such a process offers a stringent test for the SM predictions and serves as an excellent opportunity for identifying departures from this standard picture. Also, I am performing studies within fast detector simulations, i.e. in the context of CMS FastSim.
Zhengwen Liu
I am interested in analytic computations in quantum field theories, with current focus on modern techniques of calculating scattering amplitudes.
Office: E.254
Email: zhengwen.liu@uclouvain.be
Luca Mantani
I work on LHC phenomenology, in particular how to detect new interactions among SM and interpret them via the SMEFT.
Office: E.256
Email: luca.mantani@uclouvain.be
Robin Marzucca
PhD student in theoretical particle physics, working on the mathematical structures of scattering amplitudes. Special interest in elliptic polylogarithms.
Martin Michel
Computation of quark mass effects in Higgs gluon fusion
Office: E.254
Email: martin.michel@uclouvain.be
Elisa Minucci
Experimentalist, working on the study of rare and forbidden decays, in particular on Lepton Number and Flavor violating K+ decays at the NA62 experiment at CERN
Office: E.257
Phone: (+32 10 4) 7 3218
Alessia Saggio
Experimentalist, involved in the development of new tools for multi-variate analysis and member of the CMS collaboration
Office: E.260
Email: alessia.saggio@uclouvain.be
Julien Touchèque
Exploring quantum dynamics on de Sitter spacetime: From particles to fields
Office: E.165
Tu Thong Tran
I study Electroweak couplings of the top quark in the production of top - anti top pair in association with a vector boson (W, Z)
Email: tu.thong.tran@cern.ch
Andres Vasquez
Physics Beyond the Standard Model, Higgs phenomenology.
Office: E.165
Email: andres.vasquez@uclouvain.be
Bram Verbeek
PhD student in theoretical physics, interested in the mathematical structure of scattering amplitudes.
Sébastien Wertz
Experimentalist with the CMS collaboration. Searches for non-resonant new physics in the llbb+MET topology (hh and ttbar processes). Also involved in the development of new tools easing the use of the Matrix Element Method.
Phone: (+32 10 4) 73347
Email: sebastien.wertz@cern.ch
Sophie Wuyckens
Development of a compact and portable gaseous detector for "muography", i.e. imaging with cosmic rays. Data analysis in the CMS experiment.
Office: E.359
Email: sophie.wuyckens@uclouvain.be
Higgs phenomonology
Joe Zobec
I am working on the long-lived exotic particles with the CMS group. My other more technical interest, unrelated to my work is high-performance computing. Appart from that I really do enjoy cooking, singing and playing board games.
Office: E.166
Phone: (+32 10 4) 73271
Students
Gaël Van Dieren
Exploring the Cartan formulation of de Sitter geometry: from topological gauge field theory to gravity
Technical staff
Jean-Marc Delforge
Michael Jonckman
Daniel Michotte
Jean-Pierre Page
Administration
Stéphanie Landrain
Carinne Mertens
Providing secretarial support to CP3.
Christine Thielens
Cellule Logistique et Comptable (CLC)
Guests
Ghislain Grégoire
Experimentalist. Detection of radiations (nearly all types ...). Design, simulation, construction, setup and operation of radiation detectors.
Jean Pestieau
Electroweak Interactions
René Prieels
Energy issues: analysis of the energy future based mainly on the physical capabilities of all resources available.
Email: rene.prieels@uclouvain.be
Jacques Weyers
Flavor physics, QCD and EW interactions, for SM and BSM phenomenology, especially in the context of heavy meson decays.