I am an experimental particle physicist at Paul Scherrer Institute PSI, Switzerland’s largest research institute for natural sciences and engineering, working on the CMS experiment at the CERN Large Hadron Collider.
My research interests lie in:
- Physics analysis (in particular in connection with the use of jet substructure for heavy resonance searches or precision quantum chromodynamics measurements)
- Pixel detectors (operation and upgrade)
- Computing (large-scale high throughput systems, cloud computing, analysis tools, automation)
- Open Science (analysis reproducibility, open research data)
At PSI, together with Andy Adelmann, I reinstated and reshaped the PSI Summer Student Programme, which in 2025 had more than 50 participants.
Current official roles #
- Chair of the CERN Open Science Practitioners Forum and representative to the CERN Open Science Steering Board
- Member of the Open Research Data Sounding Board Researchers
- Chair of the jury for the National Open Research Data Prize (awarded by Swiss Academies of Arts and Sciences)
- CMS representative to the Swiss Institute of Particle Physics (CHIPP) Computing Board
- Member of the CMS Internal Communication group
Previous official roles #
- Convener of the CMS Inner Tracker Upgrade Modules working group
- Convener of the CMS Common Analysis Tools group
- Member of the CERN Open Science working group
- Deputy Coordinator of the CMS Data Preservation and Open Access group
- Convener of the CMS Beyond-Two-Generations (B2G) physics analysis group
- Convener of the CMS Jet/MET Algorithms and Reconstruction subgroup
- Convener of the CMS B2G Diboson Resonances physics analysis group
- Convener of the CMS Pixel Detector Data Acquisition group