Members
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.
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)
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.
Email: marco.drewes@uclouvain.be
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.
Christophe Ringeval
Early universe cosmology, CMB, inflationary cosmology, topological defects, string cosmology, data analysis.
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.
Andres Tanasijczuk
Computing support, Grid computing, CMS Remote Analysis Builder software.
Postdocs
Mihailo Backovic
dark matter pheno, collider phyiscs, BSM physics
Office: E.146
Phone: (+32 10 4) 73205
Hamed Bakhshiansohi
My main interest is to search for the signatures of new physics in the CMS data. My current research is based on a search for the Dark Matter candidate which is produced in associated with top quark pair in proton-proton collisions at LHC. This search could benefit the Matrix Element method to separate the ttbar background from signal.
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).
Sébastien Brochet
I'm a postdoctoral researcher in particle physics, member of the CMS collaboration. My main interest is in the search for physics beyond the Standard Model linked to the top quark. For this, I've directly contributed to the search for spin 1 and spin 0 resonances decaying to top-antitop during the Run 1 of the LHC.
Currently, I'm working in a model-independent strategy to search for new physics, with concrete applications to the measurement of the ttH coupling, as well as the study of HH resonances.
Email: sebastien.brochet@cern.ch
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.357
Email: pieter.david@uclouvain.be
Christian Fidler
I am interested in the origin and the properties of our Universe. In order increase our knowledge of the Universe I am involved in the development of the non-linear Boltzmann code SONG simulating the early Universe.
Office: E353
Abideh Jafari
I am analyzing CMS data to precisely measure the single top quark properties and to search for new physics in this sector. I am also interested in possible Higgs boson decays to new particles in the framework of Two Higgs Doublet models.
Michele Lucente
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.
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.248
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.357
Email: l.moore@cern.ch
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.
Office: E.164
Email: marco.musich@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.
Ambresh Shivaji
I work in the area of collider physics. My current research interests include precision calculations and phenomenology of new physics using effective field theories.
Office: E.149
Phone: (+32 10 4) 73275
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.
Miguel Vidal Marono
Experimentalist at the CMS experiment. Higgs searches and advanced techniques for data analysis in high energy physics (MoMEMta).
Visitors
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.
Office: E.358
Phone: (+32 10 4) 7 3217
PhD students
Elvira Cerveró García
Flavour physics in the Standard Model and beyond
Martin Delcourt
Development of a new tracker for the CMS upgrade phase 2 and study of the feasibility of measurements at the HL-LHC.
Brieuc François
Search for physics beyond the standard model in the llbb+MET topology with CMS data. This study will be extended to the search for the rare process ttH.
Benoît Hespel
Interested in fundamental interactions and extension of the Standard Model. More precisely I'm working on Higgs boson phenomenology at LHC (Higgs pair production through gluon fusion in the 2HDM).
Office: E.248
Email: benoit.hespel@uclouvain.be
Matthias Komm
Top Quark Physics: precision measurements and searches for beyond SM physics with CMS. Also involved in Fast Simulation development of the CMS detector.
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 the Standard Model Effective Field Theory.
Office: E.254
Email: zhengwen.liu@uclouvain.be
Alessio Magitteri
I work in CMS Experiment. I am working on H->ZZ->llvv topology and I am involved in hight energy muon reconstruction.
Sameh Mannai
I am working on the construction and the optimisation of a hadronic calorimeter for the CALICE collaboration for ILC (International Linear collider).
Luca Mantani
I work on LHC phenomenology, in particular how to detect new interactions among SM and intepret them via the SMEFT.
Office: E.166
Email: luca.mantani@uclouvain.be
Antony Martini
Interested in dark matter physics. I'm involved in the MadDM plugin to link indirect and direct detections to the DM production at the LHC. I also work on the monojet + MET topology involving gravitinos.
Robin Marzucca
PhD student in theoretical particle physics, working on the mathematical structures of scattering amplitudes. Special interest in elliptic polylogarithms.
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.249
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
Bram Verbeek
PhD student in theoretical physics, working on topics related to 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.
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.261
Phone: (+32 10 4) 73271
Students
Technical staff
Jean-Marc Delforge
Corentin Félix
Michael Jonckman
Daniel Michotte
Jean-Pierre Page
Administration
Luc Kruijfhooft
Gestionnaire comptable
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.
Christian Hagendorf
I am interested in exactly-solvable models in statistical mechanics, integrability and combinatorics.
Jean Liénardy
I work on statistical and mathematical physics. I am interested in Supersymmetric one-dimensional Quantum Spin chains, Integrability and Combinatorics.
Email: jean.lienardy@uclouvain.be
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.