Members
Louvain-La-Neuve
Professors
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.
Giacomo Bruno
Experimental physicist doing research with the CMS experiment at the LHC collider of the CERN laboratory and the Virgo laser interferometric antenna for gravitational wave detection at the EGO observatory.
On CMS: 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.
On Virgo: currently building up a research group at UCLouvain. Activities in physics data analysis (stochastic gravitational wave background), computing (redesign of Virgo computing model).
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
I am working on Effective Field Theory (EFT) at colliders mainly in top and electroweak sector. Recently, I have been focusing on the interplay between PDF and EFT fits and on the computation of NLO QCD corrections for the SMEFT.
I am the author of NLOCT and one of the FeynRules authors.
I am also investigating how the photon polarisation in cosmic rays can be used to probe BSM physics.
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.
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.
Phone: (+32 10 4) 7 8185
Email: claude.duhr@uclouvain.be
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
Jean-Marc Gérard
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. Working on VIRGO - the antenna of gravitational waves and testing theories of gravity, and of the black holes in particular. Studying also high energy photon interactions at hadron colliders as well as novel timing detectors with picosecond resolution.
Research scientists
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 MadGraph5_aMC@NLO (including most of the associated package and plugin)
Andres Tanasijczuk
Jérôme de Favereau
CP3 website developement and maintenance, issue tracking system, general support, cluster maintenance, openstack deployement, CMS detector upgrade among other things...
Postdocs
Matteo Becchetti
I work in the area of theoretical particle physics, with a particular focus on the computation of higher-order corrections in SM and on the study of the Large-N limit of QCD.
Office: E.146
Ankit Beniwal
My research focuses on the phenomenology of simple dark matter models and their implications on direct, indirect and collider search experiments. I’m also interesting in mechanisms that generate the observed baryon asymmetry in our Universe.
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
Pieter David
Experimental particle physicist, member of the CMS collaboration. Constraining new physics (in an EFT framework) in the production of top quarks together with bosons, and contributing to strip tracker calibration and software development.
Office: E.358
Email: pieter.david@uclouvain.be
Drazen Glavan
Jan Hajer
BSM Phenomenology. Higgs physics, naturalness of the SM, SUSY.
Hidden particles at NA62.
Jan Heisig
I am conducting research in the fields of theoretical particle physics and cosmology investigating beyond standard models and their phenomenology at colliders, astrophysical and cosmological observations. I am developer of the numerical tools MadDM and SModelS.
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.
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
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
Artur Shaikhiev
Search for rare decays/new particles. Interested in Monte Carlo simulation of physics experiments
Office: E.257
Email: artur.shaikhiev@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.
Phone: (+32 10 4) 73275
Maksym Teklishyn
I focus on the semiconductor detectors for particle physics. Currently involved in the Phase 2 upgrade of the CMS Tracker, preparing the QA and assembling center at UCLouvain. Participate in the development of the simulation software for the silicon detectors.
Pietro Vischia
My main research interest is in statistics and machine learning; I am currently working on developing algorithms which employ resampling techniques to the problem of anomaly detection, and on the problem of expressing the expected statistical significance in an approximate way in searches for new signals.
I am a member of the CMS Collaboration, where I work as a statistics advisor (CMS Statistics Committee) and to experimental measurements in top-Higgs physics (ttH observation and top-Higgs coupling constraints in an EFT framework) and in Standard Model precision measurements (WZ, also constraining the triboson coupling in an EFT framework).
Roberta Volpe
Experimental particle physicist in NA62 experiment. Currently working on hidden sector searches with single track Kaon decays. My main focuses are: providing statistical treatment for the main analyses and implementing an interface between external generators (in particular MadDump/MadGraph) and the GEANT4 full simulation of the detector. I also work for the RICH (Ring Imaging CHerenkov) detector: I am responsible for the data quality and time calibration, and I am interested in improving the particle identification.
Office: E.255
Email: roberta.volpe@uclouvain.be
PhD students
Samip Basnet
Imaging of large structures with cosmic-ray muons.
Office: E.359
Email: samip.basnet@uclouvain.be
Florian Bury
Martin Delcourt
Development of a new tracker for the CMS upgrade phase 2 and study of the feasibility of measurements at the HL-LHC.
Khawla Jaffel
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
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.
Phone: (+32 10 4) 73237
Email: robin.marzucca@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
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
Phenomenology of weak bosons and top quark interactions with Effective Field Theory, focusing on CP violation.
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.
Phone: (+32 10 4) 79396
Email: bram.verbeek@uclouvain.be
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
Jože 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.
Phone: (+32 10 4) 73271
Visitors
Daddy Balondo Iyela
Integrable quantum dynamics, Klauder-Daubechies deformations and noncommutative geometric structures
Phone: (+32 10 4) 7 8185
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
Marion Pillas
Marion will be doing a stage at UCLouvain on gravitational waves, profiting of an Erasmus grant
Master students
Gaël Van Dieren
Exploring the Cartan formulation of de Sitter geometry: from topological gauge field theory to gravity
Technical staff
Antoine Deblaere
Jean-Marc Delforge
Michael Jonckman
Jean-Pierre Page
Nicolas Szilasi
Administrative staff
Stéphanie Landrain
Carinne Mertens
Christine Thielens
Cellule Logistique et Comptable (CLC)
Guests
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
Ghislain Grégoire
Experimentalist. Detection of radiations (nearly all types ...). Design, simulation, construction, setup and operation of radiation detectors.
René Prieels
Energy issues: analysis of the energy future based mainly on the physical capabilities of all resources available.
Email: rene.prieels@uclouvain.be