About

Current members

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Fabio Maltoni (Team Leader)

Fabio Maltoni is member of the Centre for Cosmology, Particle Physics and Phenomenology (CP3) in Louvain since 2005. His research has mainly focused on Higgs boson production and decay in models with extended Higgs sectors, production and decay of quarkonia, properties and structure of QCD amplitudes, and top-quark phenomenology. Over the past decade Fabio Maltoni has devoted most of his attention to the computer simulation of collider physics and the automated computation of scattering amplitudes. He is one of the authors of MadGraph 5 that provides a platform where pheno projects can be developed, including SM and BSM physics, LO and NLO accurate predictions, such as aMC@NLO.

Chiara Arina

Chiara research activities relate to the dark matter problem within a particle physics perspective. Her theoretical work focuses on dark matter model building in connection with the problem of generation of neutrino masses and/or of the visible matter. Her phenomenological research focuses on various aspects of dark matter detection (direct, indirect and at collider), with a particular attention to the statistical approach.

Celine Degrande

Celine is working on Effective Field Theory (EFT) at colliders mainly in top and electroweak sector. Recently, she has been focusing on the interplay between PDF and EFT fits and on the computation of NLO QCD corrections for the SMEFT. She is the author of NLOCT and one of the FeynRules authors. She is also investigating how the photon polarisation in cosmic rays can be used to probe BSM physics.

Jan Heisig

Jan is conducting research in the fields of theoretical particle physics and cosmology investigating beyond standard models and their phenomenology at colliders, for astrophysical and cosmological observations. He is a developer of the numerical tools MadDM and SModelS.

Luca Mantani

Luca is a PhD student in Louvain since September 2017. His thesis work will focus on new physics searches at the LHC in the context of simplified models and EFT. In particular, he will consider the EFT interpretation of the LHC data, improving it by computing higher order corrections in QCD/EW and in the EFT expansion, by study possible UV completions (full or simplified) and how to relate them to the EFT, devising new observables and strategies to constrain the Wilson coefficients, to explore new techniques to more reliably evaluate the uncertainties and to perform global fits using not only LHC data but also EW precision observables and future experiments.

Olivier Mattelaer (Board Member)

Dr. Olivier Mattelaer is research scientist in Louvain since 2009. He is the main develloper of the MadGraph5_aMC@NLO suite of program.

Theo Heimel

Dr. Theo Heimel is a Post-Doc, The main focus of his research is accelerating event generation for the High-Luminosity LHC and beyond using generative networks. In particular, the MadNIS project aims to make sampling hard-scattering events in MadGraph faster using neural importance sampling. Furthermore, he is interested in ML-based methods to extract more information from LHC data. This includes unfolding with generative networks, simulation-based inference, and combining machine-learned detector effects with theory knowledge in the matrix element method.

Luca Beccatinni

Mr. Beccatinni, is doing a joint PhD between UCLouvain and UCBologna. Working on neural network surrogate models to approximate scattering amplitudes and High-Energy Physics event generation, like event unweighting.