Education, experience & skills

PhD thesis: Study of the radiation background and of new monitoring tools at the LHC for Run 3 and the HL-LHC.

Wolfgang Gentner Scholarship recipient — full funding for 3 years of PhD studies.

Master thesis (grade 1.0): Comparison between measured radiation levels and FLUKA simulations at CHARM and in the LHC tunnel of P1–5 within the R2E project in Run 2.

Overall GPA: 2.03. Deutschlandstipendium recipient.

High-energy physics courses: Concepts for Future Hadron Collider Experiments, Physics at the Large Hadron Collider Seminar, Medical Physics, Advanced Programming, Computational Physics.

Bachelor thesis (grade 1.33): Canonical quantization procedures and the time–energy uncertainty relation.

President's List. Overall GPA: 1.24. Merit Scholarship.

Advanced courses: Particles and Fields, General Relativity, Solid State Electronic Devices, Advanced Quantum Physics.

Natural life sciences class, focused on physics, mathematics and chemistry.

FLUKA collaboration · Radiation to Electronics (R2E) collaboration · SYS-STI-BMI, Accelerator Systems Department

• Development and deployment of a novel Timepix3 radiation monitor for R2E applications at the LHC.
• Coordinated and executed 10+ radiation test campaigns.
• Monte Carlo simulations (FLUKA) for the radiation environment for the High-Luminosity LHC at IP1 (ATLAS) and IP5 (CMS).

Radiation to Electronics (R2E) collaboration · FLUKA collaboration · SYS-STI-BMI, Accelerator Systems Department

• Characterization and calibration of a Timepix3-based detector for R2E applications; test beams for neutrons, protons, alphas and gammas.
• Radiation monitoring at IR4 (Beam Gas instruments), IR8 (LHCb cavern) and IR1 (SND experiment).
• FLUKA simulations for the radiation environment in the LHC tunnel around IR4 for energy deposition and radiation-effects studies.
• Operated the Beam Gas Vertex (BGV) demonstrator from LHC Run 2 and the Beam Gas Curtain (BGC) demonstrator from Run 3 onward, both candidates for HL-LHC.

• Monte Carlo simulations for the radiation environment in the LHC tunnel around the high-luminosity experiments.
• Data analysis for several radiation monitors (BLMs, RadMONs, optical fibre).
• Benchmark studies between FLUKA and measured data at LHC and CHARM.

Optical Calorimetry (OptiCal): co-inventor of a camera-based proton CT detector.

• Conducted simulations in FLUKA for energy deposition, light yield and signal formation.
• Led beam tests for hardware studies and prototype validation.

CERN LHCb Collaboration Romania

• Data analysis comparing simulated results with measured data from HEPData.

• Institute for Hadronic Structure and Fundamental Symmetries (7.5 hrs/week, from Nov 2019): implemented a novel method of analysis for the decay of B-mesons at Belle.
• Strongly Correlated Electron Systems Research Group (7.5 hrs/week, from Oct 2019): developed Python simulation libraries for magnetic fields in neutron-scattering setups.

• Programmed microcontrollers for electric-vehicle charging stations.
• Wrote emulation libraries in Python for software and hardware testing.

Reusable Analysis (REANA) project, IT-CDA-DR

• Carried out data analysis and implemented workflows for reproducibility.
• Software development for the Reusable Analysis project.

Final report

Novel Instrumentation for Nuclear Safety, Security and Safeguards — spent fuel gamma-ray image analysis.

• Developed an image/location reconstruction algorithm from a Ge γ-ray imager.
• Developed data-analysis packages for the extracted signals.

Final report

Department of Theoretical Physics — Quantum Foundations and Quantum Information Technology.

• Reviewed interpretations of quantum mechanics and compared proposed quantum-computing implementations.

Hadronic Physics Department — counting-rate performance study of Transition Radiation Detectors (TRDs).

• Data analysis with ROOT; investigated TRD suitability for the upcoming CBM experiment at FAIR@GSI.

Final report