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

• Hind Taibi (2025–2028) Measurement of Double Higgs Boson Production in the bbγγ Channel with the ATLAS Experiment Using Run 2 and Run 3 Data

• Jeremy Couthures (2022–2026) Development of new machine-learning-based reconstruction algorithms for charged particles tracks in the ATLAS experiment
  Defended on 31/03/2026.
  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).

Short Research Projects (CERN-based)

• 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.

Thesis Referee

• Trisha Debnath (2026) Title to be confirmed. Institut Polytechnique de Paris, France. Supervisors: Dr. Andrew Gilbert and Dr. Florian Beaudette. Defence foreseen in October 2026.

• Andro Petkovic (2026) Title to be confirmed. University of Strasbourg, France. Supervisors: Dr. Christophe Ochando and Dr. Toni Sculac. Defence foreseen in July 2026.

• Geliang Liu (2024) Searches for New Physics Using the Higgs Sector in Leptonic Final States and Beam Tests of the CMS High Granularity Calorimeter Institut Polytechnique de Paris, France. Supervisor: Dr. Roberto Salerno. Defended on 17/12/2024.

• Mario Sessini (2023) Search for CP violation in the Yukawa coupling of the tau lepton with the CMS experiment at the LHC University of Strasbourg, France. Supervisor: Dr. Anne-Catherine Le Bihan. Defended on 15/12/2023.

• Aleksei Luikianchiuk (2023) Measurement of Higgs couplings using the diphoton channel and EFT interpretation with the ATLAS experiment using the full Run 2 data of LHC. Calibration of the electromagnetic calorimeter Paris-Saclay University, France. Supervisor: Dr. Marc Escalier. Defended on 27/09/2023.

• Jelena Mijuskovic (2022) Measurement of the N-jettiness variables in the production of Z boson events with the CMS detector and performance of its electromagnetic calorimeter Paris-Saclay University, France, and University of Podgorica, Montenegro. Supervisors: Dr. Federico Ferri and Prof. Nataša Raičević. Defended on 06/06/2022.

• Marko Stamenkovic (2021) Charming Higgs bosons. Constraint on the Higgs-charm coupling from a search for Higgs boson decays to charm quarks with the ATLAS detector Universiteit van Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Supervisors: Prof. Dr. W. Verkerke and Dr. T.A. du Pree. Defended on 08/07/2021.

• Riccardo Salvatico (2020) Search for the rare decay of the W boson into a pion and a photon in proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s}= 13$ TeV with the CMS experiment Università di Torino, Italy. Supervisors: Prof. Stefano Argirò and Dr. Mario Pelliccioni. Defended on 29/01/2021.

• Konie Al Khoury (2020) Measurements of the Higgs boson produced in association with a vector boson and decaying to a pair of b-quarks with the ATLAS detector Université Paris-Saclay, France. Supervisor: Dr. Nicolas Morange. Defended on 23/09/2020.

• Chiara Amendola (2019) Vector Boson Fusion trigger and search for Higgs boson pair production at the LHC in the $b\bar{b}\tau\tau$ channel with the CMS detector Institut Polytechnique de Paris, France. Supervisor: Dr. Florian Beaudette. Defended on 27/11/2019.

• Giuseppe Callea (2018) Measurement of isolated-photon plus jet production in $pp$ collisions at $\sqrt{s}=13$ TeV with the ATLAS detector at the LHC Università della Calabria, Italy. Supervisors: Prof. Enrico Tassi, Prof. Claudia Glasman and Prof. Juan Terrón. Defended on 19/04/2018.

Individual PhD Thesis Committees

• Tom Fournier (2025–2028) Title to be confirmed. APC Paris, France. Supervisor: Dr. Gregorio Bernardi.

• Dian Yu (2025–2028) Title to be confirmed. APC Paris, France. Supervisor: Dr. Giovanni Marchiori.

• Adrien Sabard (2025–2028) Title to be confirmed. Lyon University, France. Supervisor: Dr. Gaelle Boudoul.

• Warren Guerrin (2024–2027) Higgs boson self-coupling study in $HH\to b\bar{b}\gamma\gamma$ channel with geometric deep learning techniques University of Toulouse, France. Supervisors: Dr. Jan Stark and Dr. Alexis Vallier.

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