Research
I am a physicist working on the ALICE experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). My main research interests include:
- Prompt Photons: Using isolated photons to probe the gluon density in protons and nuclei (gluon saturation) and to test perturbative QCD.
- Calorimetry: R&D and performance studies for the ALICE Forward Calorimeter (FoCal), operation of the ALICE Electromagnetic Calorimeter (EMCal) as deputy system runcoordinator
- Jets: Measuring jets and their correlations with photons to study energy loss in the Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP)
- Phenomenology: I always had a passion for phenomenology. Currently I am doing various phenomenological studies related to cold nuclear matter effects and the Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP), as well as for the future FCC-ee collider.
Publications
Selected publications in chronological order. Citation counts and journal references are pulled from INSPIRE-HEP
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Talks
Selected talks and posters in chronological order.
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ALICE overview: hard probes and nPDFs [talk]
Light ion collisions at the LHC 2025
December 2025.
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Prompt photon measurements in small systems with ALICE [poster]
31st Quark Matter Conference
September 2025.
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ALICE status report [plenary talk]
161th LHCC Meeting OPEN Session
March 2025.
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High-density QCD physics and the study of the QGP in the high-lumi LHC era [talk]
Workshop on High Luminosity LHC and Hadron Colliders
October 2024.
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Future Facilities: Heavy-ion physics at the LHC [plenary talk]
12th Hard Probes conference
September 2024.
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ALICE studies and plans in hadronic proton-nucleus collisions at the LHC [talk]
Physics with high-luminosity proton-nucleus collisions at the LHC - Workshop
July 2024.
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Heavy-ion physics at the HL-LHC experiments [multi-exp talk]
12th LHCP conference
June 2024.
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Prompt photons: A versatile probe for heavy-ion collisions [talk]
ALICE USA meeting at Yale
May 2024. -
Connecting forward LHC and the EIC: the ALICE FoCal upgrade [talk]
Joint ECFA-NuPECC-APPEC activity workshop: Synergies between the EIC and the LHC
December 2023.
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The ALICE Forward Calorimeter (FoCal) upgrade: physics program and prototype performance [poster]
156th LHCC Meeting
November 2023.
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Measuring prompt photon production with the ALICE Forward Calorimeter (FoCal) upgrade [talk & poster]
798. WE-Heraeus-Seminar: Forward Physics and QCD at the LHC and EIC
October 2023. -
Forward Calorimeter (FoCal): Physics and performance [talk]
30th Quark Matter Conference
September 2023.
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Probing the initial state of nuclear collisions using isolated prompt photons with ALICE [talk]
11th Hard Probes Conference
March 2023.
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Isolated photon production in pp and p--Pb collisions at $\sqrts [talk]
ALICE USA meeting
May 2022.
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Prompt photon physics with the ALICE FoCal [talk]
Forward QCD: open questions and future directions (workshop)
May 2022.
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Probing the initial state of nuclear collisions with isolated photons at the LHC [talk]
Invited speaker at Oak Ridge National Laboratory physics division seminar
May 2022.
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Probing the initial state of nuclear collisions with isolated photons at the LHC [talk]
Invited speaker at Institute for Nuclear Physics (Münster) seminar
June 2022. -
$\omega$ and $\eta'$ production in proton-proton collisions at the LHC measured with ALICE [talk]
40th ICHEP conference
June 2020.
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Measurement of $\omega$ mesons in pp collisions at $\sqrts [talk]
Talk at DPG Spring Meeting
June 2019. -
Measurement of $\omega$ and $\eta$ mesons via their three pion decay with ALICE in pp collisions at $\sqrts [poster]
137th LHCC meeting
June 2019.
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Measurement of $\omega$ and $\eta$ mesons via their three pion decay with ALICE in pp collisions at $\sqrts [poster]
DPG Spring Meeting
June 2018. -
Kinematic cuts for $\omega$ reconstruction in ALICE [talk]
ALICE Germany Meeting
June 2016.
Curriculum Vitae
| Year | Description |
|---|---|
| 2023 | Doctor of Natural Sciences (summa cum laude) University of Münster, Germany / CERN, Switzerland Institute for Nuclear Physics, Geneva, CH "Probing the initial state of heavy-ion collisions with isolated prompt photons" research carried out in collaboartion with Oak Ridge Nation Lab (ORNL) while being stations full time at CERN, Switzerland |
| 2018 | Master of Science (Physics) University of Münster, Germany Institute for Nuclear Physics, Münster, DE "Measurement of ω and η mesons via their three pion decay with ALICE in pp collisions at √s=7 TeV" |
| 2016 | Bachelor of Science (Physics) University of Münster, Germany Institute for Nuclear Physics, Münster, DE "Simulations for optimization of ω-reconstruction at ALICE" |
| 2013 | Abitur Freiherr-vom-Stein Gymnasium, Germany, Hamm, DE |
| Year | Description |
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| 2025 - now | Research Fellow (EP) CERN, Geneva, CH |
| 2023 - 2025 | Postdoctoral Scholar University of California Berkeley / LBNL, Geneva, CH |
| 2018-2023 | Scientific Assistant University of Münster, Germany Institute for Nuclear Physics, Münster, DE |
| 2017 | Summer Student European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) ALICE Experiment, Geneva, CH |
| 2016 | Student Assistant University of Münster, Germany Institute for Theoretical Physics, Münster, DE |
| 2012 | Internship German Aerospace Center (DLR) Institute of Materials Science in Space, Cologne, DE |
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| 2024 |
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| 2023 |
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Acknowledgements
This website is based on the latex-css project by Vincent Dörig. I have heavily modified itto include things I need, such as a moving sidebar, inspire-hep pulling for abstract and journal information for the publications, as well as the abstract display in the sidebar. I thank INSPIRE-HEP for making their REST API publicly available. As I am a physicist and not a web developer, this would not have been possible without the help of LLMs, in particular Google Gemini 3 Pro. The source code for this website is freely available on GitHub under the MIT license.
