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New Arrivals

Luca Bernardi

I am mechanical engineer graduated at the University of Padua. In February 2023 I joined the EP-DT-EO group as an Origin, and I am working on the EP-R&D project (WP4 - Detector Mechanics). More precisely, I am dealing with the integration of robotic systems to support the detector functioning and monitor the cavern environment, as well as the definition of interfaces and architectures of future detector devices for their automated installation, maintainability, and disposal. Since I arrived, I have contributed to characterize the behaviour of electromagnetic motors immersed in strong magnetic fields, such as the detector cavern’s ones.

Filiberto Bonini

Filiberto obtained his MSc in Electronics Engineering from EPFL. He is working since on Timing, Trigger and Data Acquisition digital systems for the HL-LHC Upgrade of the ATLAS experiment. In 2019, he joined Brookhaven National Lab in New York (USA), to work on R&D of hardware and firmware for the Global Trigger susbsytem.
In 2023, he joined CERN's EP-ESE group and the Level-1 Central Trigger team, to work on picosecond-precision Trigger and Timing distribution based on commercial-off-the-shelf FPGAs and transceivers.

Marta Czurylo

I am a new experienced project graduate (QUEST) in the EP-SFT group, working on the ROOT project. My main focus is the RDataFrame development, but I will also design and deliver outreach activities and technical training sessions. I obtained my PhD in particle physics from the University of Heidelberg in February 2023. During my PhD I worked on the Run 2 di-Higgs to 4b analysis. I am very happy to join and contribute to the ROOT project developments.

Giulia Di Gregorio

Hello, I am Giulia, I am a physicist and I’ve joined the ATLAS team as a Research Fellow in May 2023. My first involvement in the high energy physics and in the ATLAS Collaboration dates back to 2016 when I was selected for the CERN Summer Student Programme. On the detector side I was involved in the Phase-2 upgrade activities of TileCal, while now I’m joining the High Granularity Time Detector group. On the analysis side I’m working on the Higgs sector, both single and di-Higgs, in particular on the VH(bb) and HH(bbyy) analyses.

Louis Lalanne

I am an experimental nuclear physicist working since 2021 at the radioactive beam facility of CERN: ISOLDE. Before arriving at CERN, I did my PhD at Paris-Saclay University while working at the GANIL facility. I joined the EP department as a research fellow in 2023. At ISOLDE, I am studying the evolution of nuclear moments and charge radii, going into exotic regions of the chart of nuclei, using laser spectroscopy at the Collinear Resonance Ionization Spectroscopy (CRIS) experiment.

Titus Mombacher

Hello, I am a Research Fellow, searching for rare and exotic decays with the LHCb experiment, including the B0s->mumu decays. The recent major upgrade of the detector with its move to a fully software-based trigger unlocks new opportunities like searches for rare strange decays, which up to now was blocked by the first-level hardware triggers. To get there, work is still to be done on reconstruction and selection at trigger level that I will pursue, benefitting the whole experiment. Additionally, I am contributing to the demonstrator CODEX-beta for a shielded experiment to search for long-lived particles produced transverse to the LHC beam.

Juska Pekkanen

Hello! After working at CMS for 10+ years I take on new challenges as a Research Fellow in the Noble Liquid Calorimetry for Future Accelerator Experiments project. We work on improving the design of noble liquid based electromagnetic calorimeters (ECAL), successfully used by e.g. ATLAS and DØ. By using finely segmented multi-layer read-out electrodes we obtain a high-granularity ECAL which allows for accurate measurement of electromagnetic showers, which in turn facilitates high-precision physics measurements in the clean conditions of lepton colliders such as FCC-ee. I'm really excited about the new challenges and feel like a kid in a candy store!

Sebastian Wuchterl

I joined the EP-CMG-OS group as Research Fellow to work on the L1 Trigger upgrade of the CMS detector for the High Luminosity LHC. I am also investigating the associated production of top quark-antiquark pairs with Z and Higgs bosons at the LHC with the CMS experiment. My research interests further comprise the identification of jets originating from the hadronization of heavy quarks. Before joining CERN, during my Ph.D. at DESY in collaboration with Hamburg University, I worked as a CMS member on precision measurements involving top quarks.