Research theme
Strong-interaction physics from vector-boson + heavy-flavour production to double parton scattering and jet physics at hadron colliders.
Quantum chromodynamics governs the strong force. Even when it is not the new physics we are chasing, QCD shapes almost every signature at a hadron collider — so getting it right is essential to everything else.
My QCD work spans vector-boson production in association with heavy-flavour jets, double parton scattering — two separate hard interactions within a single collision — and jet physics. A comprehensive Tevatron study of W+jets production introduced novel observables that exposed shortcomings in the best predictions of the day and improved the modelling used across later LHC measurements and searches.
I contribute to the roadmap for quarkonium physics at the High-Luminosity LHC, where quarkonia serve as precision probes of QCD and of proton structure.
A community roadmap for quarkonium physics at the High-Luminosity LHC, covering pp, pA and AA collisions in both collider and fixed-target modes. Five threads run through it: associated production of J/ψ and Υ with other hard particles; low-pT χ_{c,b} and η_{c,b} spectroscopy; quarkonia as probes of gluon PDFs, nuclear PDFs and the full transverse-momentum-dependent / generalised parton distribution family; the gluon Sivers effect; and quarkonia as a thermometer for the quark–gluon plasma in heavy-ion collisions.
Comprehensive double-differential cross-sections (in pT and rapidity) for prompt and non-prompt J/ψ and ψ(2S), using 2.1 fb⁻¹ of 7 TeV and 11.4 fb⁻¹ of 8 TeV ATLAS data via the dimuon channel. Reports the ψ(2S)-to-J/ψ production ratio and the non-prompt fraction across kinematic phase space, separating the QCD-driven prompt component from the b-hadron decay contribution. The benchmark reference for quarkonium production theory at LHC Run 1 energies.
Current
Principal Investigator
Diverse interests across particle physics, software development and data analysis at colliders and in direct dark matter detection, high-frequency gravitational waves, neutrino physics, phenomenology, instrumentation, and the deployment of AI techniques.
PhD student (2025–)
Advancing spin-dependent dark matter searches with DarkSide-20k through detector instrumentation, sensitivity studies and sidereal analyses.
PhD student (2025–)
Advancing the discovery potential of liquid argon dark matter detectors through detector commissioning, calibration and novel sensitivity studies.
PhD student (2023–)
Advancing direct detection frontiers for dark matter, new neutrino physics and high-frequency gravitational waves through detector modelling, optimisation and novel sensor technologies.
Alumni
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Vector boson fusion studies at the ATLAS experiment.
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Data analysis at the ATLAS experiment, LHC.
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Collider physics at ATLAS; now faculty in China.
PhD / Postdoctoral Research Associate · 2013–2016
Determination of the electroweak Zjj production cross-section at ATLAS.
PhD student
Fast inference techniques in the physical sciences.
PhD student · 2013–2017
Searches for new heavy gauge bosons in weak boson fusion.
PhD student (Indiana University) · 2012–2016
Observation of electroweak W+jets production and kinematic tests of vector boson fusion.
PhD student (Indiana University) · 2008–2012
Upsilon production studies, Di-muons near the Upsilon resonances in ATLAS.
MScR student · 2021–2022
Searching for new phenomena in high-energy photon–photon collisions at the LHC with ATLAS-AFP.
MPhys students · 2022–23
Experimental signatures to search for low mass dark matter gravitationally captured in celestial bodies.
MPhys students · 2021–22
Doubly-charged Higgs boson searches at the LHC through vector boson fusion.
MPhys students · 2021–22
Feasibility of new searches for dark photons at the LHC ATLAS experiment.
MPhys students · 2020–21
Dark matter production in high-energy photon–photon interactions at the LHC ATLAS and AFP experiments.
MPhys students · 2020–21
WW and ZZ production in photon-fusion interactions at the ATLAS experiment.
MPhys students · 2019–20
Feasibility studies and sensitivity estimations for a new search for heavy Majorana neutrinos at the LHC.
MPhys students · 2019–20
New approaches to searching for dark matter and QCD axion production at the LHC.
MPhys students · 2019–20
Fisher information to enhance the sensitivity of future dark matter searches.
MPhys students · 2019–20
Potential to measure double parton scattering interactions in top quark pair production at the LHC.
MPhys students · 2018–19
Indirect searches for extra dimensions at the LHC.
MPhys students · 2017–18
New searches for invisible phenomena at the LHC.
MPhys students · 2017–18
Sensitivity of future searches for vector-like quarks at the LHC.
MPhys student · 2017–18
Future release of the CERN ATLAS 13 TeV proton–proton Open Data.
MPhys student · 2016–17
First extraction of the direct J/ψ production rate using LHC pp collision data.
MPhys student · 2016
Long-distance matrix elements for charmonium production in Non-Relativistic QCD.
MPhys students · 2014–15
Discovery potential for an extended Higgs sector in novel rare decay modes at HL-LHC.
Summer research intern · 2022
Interplay of non-standard neutrino interactions and dark matter discovery in liquid-argon direct detection experiments.
Summer research intern · 2022
Educational and public engagement materials for the ATLAS Education and Outreach group at CERN.
Summer research intern · 2019
Effective field theory simulations of nuclear energy recoils for non-standard dark matter searches at DarkSide-20k.
Summer research intern · 2019
Sensitivity studies for new ATLAS searches for heavy sterile Majorana neutrinos.
Summer research intern · 2019
New phenomena searches with the ATLAS forward proton detector.
Summer research intern · 2017
Quantum-mechanical interference modelling in searches for high mass di-lepton resonances at the LHC.
Summer research intern · 2016
Precision measurement of the branching fraction of the ψ(2S) meson into di-muon pairs using LHC pp collision data.
Summer research intern · 2014
Quantum-mechanical interference in electroweak physics processes.