Students

Excellent candidates interested in pursuing a Bachelor, Master or PhD thesis under my supervision are welcome to contact me. Active openings for internships with my group at LAPP are listed here.

PhD Theses

• Jeremy Couthures (2022–2026)
  Development of new machine-learning-based reconstruction algorithms for charged particles tracks in the ATLAS experiment
  Defense planned in 2026.
  Co-supervised with Dr. D. Rousseau (IJCLAB, France) and Dr. A. Vallier (L2IT, France).

• Luca Franco (2018–2022)
  Precision Higgs Physics and search for Physics Beyond the Standard Model with the Higgs Boson decaying into two photons with the ATLAS experiment at LHC
  Defended on 13/01/2022.
  CERN-THESIS-2022-026
  Currently PostDoc at Radboud University (Nikhef), Nijmegen, Netherlands.

• Saskia Falke (2016–2019)
  Measurement of Higgs boson properties in the Higgs to diphoton channel with the ATLAS experiment, EFT interpretation of the Simplified Template Cross Section measurements and energy calibration of electrons and photons in ATLAS
  Defended on 17/09/2019.
  CERN-THESIS-2019-148
  Co-supervised with Dr. T. Guillemin (LAPP, France).
  Currently CNRS Permanent Researcher in Strasbourg, France.

• Kirill Grevtsov (2014–2017)
  Exploring the diphoton final state at the LHC at √s = 13 TeV: searches for new particles, and the Higgs boson mass measurement with the ATLAS detector
  Defended on 04/07/2017.
  CERN-THESIS-2017-138
  Co-supervised with Dr. I. Wingerter-Seez (LAPP, France).

• Simone Mazza (2013–2017)
  Search for new physics in the diphoton channel at the ATLAS experiment at the LHC
  Defended on 27/02/2017.
  CERN-THESIS-2017-010
  Co-supervised with Prof. L. Carminati (University of Milano, Italy).
  Currently Assistant Research Scientist at SCIPP, University of California Santa Cruz, USA.

• Zuzana Barnovska (2012–2015)
  Diphoton measurements with the ATLAS detector at the LHC: search for new resonances and study of diphoton production in association with jets
  Defended on 29/09/2015.
  CERN-THESIS-2015-167

• Maud Schwoerer (2010–2013)
  Études des états finals diphoton dans l’expérience ATLAS au LHC: mesure de sections efficaces différentielles, découverte d’une nouvelle résonance dans la recherche du boson de Higgs et étude de ses propriétés
  Defended on 27/09/2013.
  CERN-THESIS-2013-193
  Co-supervised with Dr. I. Wingerter-Seez (LAPP, France).

Other PhD Projects

• Angel Campoverde (2012–2013)
  Search for Gravitons Decaying to Vector Bosons in Hadronic Final States in pp Collisions at √s = 8 TeV with the ATLAS Detector
  Defended on 12/08/2015.
  Project: Study of the Calibration Constants of the Electromagnetic Calorimeter
  ATL-LARG-INT-2013-006
  Co-supervised with Prof. R. McCarthy (Stony Brook University, USA).

• Guillaume Lefebvre (2012–2013)
  Étalonnage des jets et mesure de la section efficace de production de paires de quarks top dans le canal hadronique à √s = 8 TeV avec l’expérience ATLAS au LHC
  Defended on 26/09/2014.
  CERN-THESIS-2014-234
  Project: Impact of the LAr High Voltage corrections on the electromagnetic energy response resolution
  ATL-LARG-INT-2013-001
  Co-supervised with Prof. M. Ridel (LPNHE, France).

• Stefania Bordoni (2009–2010)
  Mesure de la section efficace de production des quarks beaux et charmés à partir de leur désintégration semi-leptonique en électrons avec l’expérience ATLAS dans les collisions pp à √s = 7 TeV au LHC
  Defended on 16/09/2011.
  CERN-THESIS-2011-246
  Project: Effect of electronic calibration constant variations on reconstructed cell energy in the ATLAS electromagnetic calorimeter
  ATL-LARG-INT-2011-001
  Co-supervised with Prof. M. Ridel (LPNHE, France).

• Carolina Gabaldon Ruiz (2007–2009)
  Calibration of the ATLAS electromagnetic calorimeter and search of the W′ exotic boson
  Defended on 24/03/2010.
  Project: Electronic calibration of the ATLAS electromagnetic calorimeter endcaps. Measurement of the drift time using cosmic pulses
  ATL-LARG-INT-2009-010
  Co-supervised with Prof. J. Del Peso (University of Madrid, Spain).

Master Students

• Hind Taibi (2025)
  Photon Identification Optimization in the ATLAS Detector for the $HH\to\gamma\gamma b\bar{b}$ Measurement
  M2 internship, Paris-Saclay University, France.

• Yann Chardon-Grossard (2024)
  Optimization of the photon identification criteria in the ATLAS detector using machine learning on Run 2 dataset
  M2 internship, University of Clermont-Auvergne, France.

• Hind Taibi (2024)
  Measurement of the $ZH, H\to ZZ^\ast$ Cross Section in the Four Lepton Channel at FCC-ee
  M1 internship, Paris-Saclay University, France.

• Marta Cinci (2023–2024)
  Photon identification optimization for di-Higgs production search in the γγbb̄ final state with the ATLAS detector
  Master Thesis (Laurea Magistrale)
  Co-supervised with Prof. L. Carminati (Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy).

• Luca Franco (2018)
  Study of the Higgs boson production in Vector Boson Fusion through its decay into two photons with the ATLAS detector at LHC
  Master Thesis (Laurea Magistrale)
  Co-supervised with Prof. E. Meoni (Università della Calabria, Italy).

• Florian Eble (2017)
  Study of LAr Calibration from Run 2 for Phase II Upgrade
  M1 internship, co-supervised with Dr. N. Lorenzo Martinez.

CERN Summer Students

• Dimitrios Sidiropoulos Kontos (2018)
  Machine Learning techniques for precision Higgs physics, exploiting the Higgs boson decays into two photons

• Maud Schwoerer (2010)
  First evidence of $\Upsilon \to e^⁺e^⁻$ events at $\sqrt{s}$ = 7 TeV in the ATLAS detector

• Kilian Mueller (2007)
  Studies on longitudinal weight extraction for very low energy electrons

• Martin Skou Andersen (2006)
  Optimization of clustering algorithms for very low energy electrons