ATLAS UK People and Activities

A page listing the activities of members of the ATLAS UK Higgs, HDBS, SM, B-Physics, Top, SUSY and Exotics groups, as well as Combined Performance and Software&Computing activities.

Italicised persons are not known to have been recently active.

List of Working Groups

First Table: Higgs group

Person Status Activity
Birmingham
Andy Chisholm Academic h→cc/bb
Paul Thompson Senior researcher h→bb (Vh, and mono-h), h→cc, h→μμ/eμ/ee
Tom Neep Researcher h→cc
Edinburgh (Updated Oct 23)
Phil Clark Academic H(yy)
Victoria Martin Academic H(yy)
Liza Mijovic Academic H(yy)
Tong Qiu Postdoc H(yy)
Dominik Duda Postdoc H(yy)
Julia Allen PhD (3rd year) H(yy)
Cheng Jiang PhD (2nd year) H(yy)
Firdaus Soberi PhD (2nd year) H(yy)
Glasgow (Updated Oct 23)
Tony Doyle Academic ttH(Htobb)
Mark Owen Academic ttH(Htobb)
Albert (Bruno) Borbely Postdoc ttH(Htobb)
Zefran Rozario PhD (3rd year) ttH(Htobb)
Aidan Robson Academic VH(to bb)
Andy Buckley Academic VH(to bb)
Giuseppe Callea Postdoc VH(to bb)
Johnny Friend PhD (writing up) VH(to bb)
Jay Howarth Academic H->WW Quantum Entanglement
Theo Maurin PhD (2nd year) H->WW Quantum Entanglement
Lancaster
Eva Bouhova-Thacker Postdoc H -> tautau (CP)
Harald Fox Academic HH -> bbtautau, H-> tautau (CP)
Andy Wharton Postdoc HH -> bbtautau, long lived new particles
Adam Barton Postdoc Bs/CP violation
Roger Jones Academic Bs/CP violation, Long lived new particles
Maria Smizanska Senior Research Fellow Bs/CP violation, Long lived new particles
Sebastiano Spinali Student (Y3) H -> tautau (CP)
Ruby Ferguson Student (Y2) H -> tautau (CP)
Neza Ribaric Student (Y2) Long lived new particles
Liverpool
Eloisa Arena PhD Higgs -> invisible with 2 lepton
Jan Kretzschmar Academic H to mumu (slow ramp run 3), H to ee (emu)- currently inactive
Ting Fung Lee PhD SM VH->bb
Bhupesh Dixit PhD (2nd year) HH-> bbtautau
Andy Mehta Academic SM VH->bb, SM-H->mumu, emu, VH, H-> invisible with 2 lepton
Monica D'Onofrio Academic H-> invisible with 2 lepton
Matt Sullivan Postdoc H-> invisible with 2 lepton
Manchester
Valentina Vecchio Post-doc tHq(ML), tHq(H->bb) resolved, tHbb boosted CP
Mohamed Aly PhD (4th year) tHq(H->bb)
Yvonne Peters Academic ttH(bb) and tH(bb,ML) resolved and boosted
Alexander May PhD (2nd year) ttHbb boosted CP
Matteo D'Uffizi Post-doc tHbb boosted CP
Oxford
Chris Hays Academic H->WW
Kla Karava PhD (5th year) H->WW
James Frost Postdoc H(bb) + jet, H->Invisible
Daniela Bortoletto Academic H->ZZ and VH,H->bb/cc
Ian Shipsey Academic H->ZZ; Higgs width and H to mumu
Elisabeth Schopf Postdoc VH,H->bb/cc
Eleonora Rossi Postdoc H to mumu Higgs combination Higgs EFT interpretation Global EFT
Maxence Draguet PhD (4th year) VH,H->bb/cc
Chunhao Tian PhD (2nd year) H->ZZ/mumu
Vid Homsak PhD (1st year) H->cc
Alan Barr Academic H->WW, H->ZZ Quantum Entanglement
QMUL
Jon Hays Academic VH(bb) HH(bbtautau)
Adrian Bevan Academic VH(bb) HH(bbtautau) Higgs combinations
Seth Zenz Academic VH(bb) and H->mumu
Ulla Blumenschein Academic H->mumu
Christos Vergis Postdoc H->mumu
Arnav Avad PhD (1st year) H->mumu
RAL
Tim Adye Researcher Higgs combinations
Rhys Owen   BSM h->Q+gamma, Q=Y,J/ψ,φ,etc
RHUL (Updated Oct 23)
Levi Evans PhD (4th year) ttH(bb)
Sam Waterhouse PhD (3rd year) ttH(bb)
Sudha Ahuja Post-doc ttH(bb)
William Panduro-Vazquez Post-doc ttH(bb)
Pedro Teixeira-Dias Academic ttH(bb)
Sheffield
Christos Anastopoulos Academic H to 4l
Kristin Lohwasser Academic H to WW
Trevor Vickey Academic MSSM H->tautau, H->tautau CP, and HH->bbtautau
Nathan Readioff Postdoc H->tautau CP
Thomas Powell PhD Student H to 4l
Kamal Saoucha Postdoc yy→4l & Egamma
Mitch Norfolk PhD Student MSSM H->tautau
Sussex
Josh McFayden Academic ttH multilepton
Jacob Kempster Postdoc ttH multilepton, HTop Combination Contact
Gianna Loeschcke Centeno PhD Student ttH multilepton
Betsy Cunnett PhD Student ttH multilepton
UCL
Tim Scanlon Academic VH(to bb)
Sam Van Stroud PhD Student VH(to bb)
Donal McLaughlin PhD Student VH(to bb)
Sebastien Rettie Post-doc VH(to bb)
Gabriel Facini Academic Boosted H(bb)
Andrius Vaitkus PhD Student Boosted H(bb)
Max Hart PhD Student Boosted H(bb)
Warwick
Kathrin Becker Academic H->tautau couplings and CP
Roxani Lazaridou PhD student (3rd year) (started Oct 2020) H->tautau CP in VBF
Eva Guilloton PhD student (3rd year) (started Oct 2020) H->tautau CP in VBF

Second Table: HDBS group

Person Status Activity
Birmingham
Andy Chisholm Academic BSM h→Qγ, Q=Y,J/ψ,φ,..
Paul Thompson Senior researcher A→ZH
Tom Neep Researcher h→Za(→hadrons)
Panagiotis Bellos Postdoc h→Za(→hadrons), hh→bbττ
Eleni Skorda Postdoc h→Za(→hadrons),hh→bbττ
Robert Ward Postdoc BSM h→Qγ, Q=Y,J/ψ, h→D*γ/K*γ,...
Júlia Silva PhD student (Start Sep 2019) BSM h→Qγ, Q=Y,J/ψ,φ
Mihaela Marinescu PhD student (start Sep 2020) BSM h→Za/Zφ/Z;ρ
Chonghao Wu PhD student (start Sep 2021) h→Za(→hadrons)
Cambridge
Bill Balunas Postdoc Di-Higgs -> 4b (various topologies & interpretations), Tri-Higgs->6b
Liverpool
Carl Gwilliam Academic HH -> bbtautau
Bhupesh Dixit Student (Y2) HH -> bbtautau
Jordy Degens Postdoc HH -> bbtautau
Nikolaos Rompotis Academic A->ZH (H≠h125), BSM Higgs combination/interpretation, h->Z axion
Adam Ruby Student (Y4) h->Z axion
Cristiano Sebastiani Postdoc h->Z axion
Oxford (updated 10/23)
Todd Huffman Academic Resonant and non-resonant di-Higgs searches, HHH->6b
James Frost Research Fellow Di-Higgs -> 4b (ggF and VBF)
Holly Pacey Research Fellow HHH->6b
Tim Bruckler PhD student (4th year) HH+ MET
Thomas Dingley PhD student (2nd year) HH+ MET
Maggie Chen PhD student (3rd year) HHH->6b
Daniela Bortoletto Academic Di-Higgs - bbtautau
Florian Haslbeck PhD student (2nd year) Di-Higgs - bbtautau
QMUL
Adrian Bevan Academic HH(bbtautau)
Marcella Bona Academic Dark jet resonances
Jon Hays Academic HH(bbtautau)
Ulla Blumenschein Academic Charged H-> Wh(bb)
Sid Baines PhD student (3rd year) Charged H-> Wh(bb)
UCL
Nikos Konstantinidis Academic HH->4b
Liaoshan Shi Postdoc HH->4b
Sebastien Rettie Postdoc HH->4b
Ebony Zhang PhD Student (finishing Sept 2024) HH->4b
Marin Mlinarevic PhD Student (finishing Sept 2024) HH->4b
Thandi Madula PhD Student (finishing Sept 2025) HH->4b
Noah Clarke Hall PhD Student (finishing Sept 2026) HH->4b
Andreas Korn Academic VH Generic Heavy Higgs search
Yanhui Ma Post-doc VH Generic Heavy Higgs search
Greg Barbour PhD student VH Generic Heavy Higgs search
Warwick
Bill Murray Academic A->W+H- ->Wbt
Rachel Ashby-Pickering PhD student A->W+H- ->Wbt
Joel Davidson PhD Student (start Oct 2023) HH
Chris Pollard Academic HH

Third Table: Top group

Person Status Activity
Birmingham (contact person: Miriam Watson)
Miriam Watson Academic 13.6 TeV ttbar xs; 13 TeV top quark spin correlations in dilepton channel + supervising dilepton charge asymmetry and charged lepton flavour violation (cLFV)
Chris Hawkes   general interest/supervision, supervising charged lepton flavour violation (cLFV)
Tom Neep   13.6 TeV ttbar xs; t→H(γγ)q FCNC search
Alexis Stampekis PhD student (start Sep 2018) Charged lepton flavour violation (cLFV) in eμ channel
Will George PhD student (start Jan 2020) 13.6 TeV ttbar xs (muon perf); Charged lepton flavour violation (cLFV), μτ channel
Glasgow (contact person: Mark Owen) (Updated Oct 23)
Mark Owen Academic Top-quark mass, ttH, Boosted ttbar diff cross section, global EFT fit, ttZ differential cross-sections
Andy Buckley Academic b-jet Fragmentation at 13 TeV, ttbar spin correlation and quantum entanglement, MC tuning and generator development
Jay Howarth Academic Quantum entanglement, spin correlations, ttZ differential cross sections, low-μ early top cross-section for Run3
Jonathan Jamieson Post-doc Boosted ttbar differential cross section, global EFT fit, top-quark mass, ttbar modelling, ATLAS Top UK convenor
Marcos Miralles Lopez Post-doc 4 top Run3, top MC contact
Dwayne Spiteri GRID/ATLAS Post-doc diff boosted substructure measurement (l+jet)
Albert (Bruno) Borbely GRID/ATLAS Post-doc ttH (H->bb) boosted
Neil Warrack Ph.D. write-up ttbar spin correlation and quantum entanglement
Harriet Watson Ph.D. fourth year ttZ differential cross-sections
Elliot Watton Ph.D. third year Top-quark mass using boosted jets
Lancaster (contact person: Guennadi Borissov)
Guennadi Borissov   Test of Lepton Flavour Universality in top quark decays
Emma Marshall PhD student (3rd year) Test of LFU in the decays W->tau nu and W -> e nu
Zainab Alsolami PhD student (3rd year) Test of LFU in the decays W->mu nu and W -> e nu
Vakhtang Kartvelishvili PhD student (4th year) top-anti top production in association with a prompt Jpsi
James Ferrando Academic 13.6 TeV ttbar sec and ratios to W/Z
Manchester (contact person: Yvonne Peters)
Yvonne Peters Academic ttHbb, tH, 4top
Ethan Simpson Post-doc 4top
Valentina Vecchio Post-doc tHq(ML) and tHbb
Alexander May PhD student (2nd year) tH(bb) CP
Mohamed Aly PhD student (4th year) tHq (H ->bb) and tH(bb) CP boosted
Zihan Zhang PhD student (1st year) 4top
RHUL (contact person: Veronique Boisvert) (updated Oct 2023)
Veronique Boisvert Academic top cross section, top mass, CP violation, some using SMT, diff. cross sections
Emily Hampshire PhD student (4th year) b CPV using tops, Lepton Flavour Universality Violation in b using SMT in top events
Asim Aslam PhD student (2nd year) b CPV using tops, Lepton Flavour Universality Violation in b using SMT in top events
Davide Malito Post-doc top differential xs, b CPV using tops, Lepton Flavour Universality Violation in b using SMT in top events
Sussex
Josh McFayden Academic EFT fits, ttW, tW-scattering, ttll high-mass
Kate Shaw Academic ttV (V=W,Z)
Thomas Stevenson Postdoc Top WG EFT Contact, ttV (V=W,Z), ttZvv, tZq, ‘Global’ Top+X EFT fits
Jacob Kempster Postdoc LHC EFT WG Top Contact, Top WG EFT Contact, Charged lepton flavour violation (cLFV) in top processes, 'Global' Top+X EFT fits, B-anomalies, tW-scattering
Gianna Loeschcke Centeno PhD student ( yr 3) EFT fits, ttW, ttll high-mass
Zoe Earnshaw PhD student ( yr 3) ttZ nunu, EFT fits
Caley Yardley PhD student ( yr 2) Top+X measurements and EFT interpretations
Betsy Cunnett PhD student ( yr 1) Top+X measurements and EFT interpretations
Warwick (contact person: Paul Harrison, updated October 2023)
Paul Harrison Academic Top -> b c bbar decays
Mo Ghani PhD student (3rd Year) Top -> b c bbar decays
Sheffield (contact person: Davide Constanzo)
Davide Costanzo Academic ttZ (nunu) xsec in 0L channel
Matthew Thomas Anthony PostDoc tt+Z(->vv) cross section measurement (0L channel)
Michael Postill 2nd year PhD student tt+Z(->vv) cross section measurement (0L channel)

Fourth Table: Standard Model group

Person Status Activity
Birmingham (contacts: Paul Newman, Dave Charlton)
Harry Cooke PhD (start Sep 2019), supervisor: Dave Charlton Tribosons (V(jj)Z(ll)γ)
Adrien Auriol PhD (start Sep 2020), supervisor: Paul Newman γγ→ZZ searches 13 TeV
Júlia Silva PhD (start Sep 2019), supervisor: Andy Chisholm W→πγ/ργ
Mihaela Marinescu PhD (start Sep 2020), supervisor: Tom Neep Early W/Z cross-section with Run-3 data
Josh Lomas PhD ( start Sep 2021), supervisor: Paul Newman Proton-tagged dilepton+missing mass
Karol Krizka Academic Minbias at 13.6 TeV
Cambridge (contacts: Sarah Williams )
Sarah Williams Academic SUSY-inspired diboson measurements, run 3 EWK measurements
Jesse Liu postdoc Soft QCD, forward physics, γγ>ee/µµ/ττ (pp/PbPb), cosmic rays
Edinburgh
Sinead Farrington Academic High mass DY
Sara Alderweireldt   High mass DY
Guillermo Hamity   High mass DY
Glasgow ( contacts: Craig Buttar, Andy Buckley) (Updated Oct 23)
Andy Buckley Academic V+HF (boosted) 13 TeV, b-jet fragmentation 13 TeV, Jet substructure
Giuseppe Callea postdoc V+HF (boosted) 13 TeV, b-jet fragmentation 13 TeV, Jet substructure
Peter Bussey Academic Forward Proton physics
Liverpool ( contacts: Uta Klein, Jan Kretzschmar, updated Oct. 23)
Uta Klein Academic Low mass mumu ptmumu and mass-dependent cross sections; peak and High mass NC and CC DY cross sections + theory SM+SMEFT
Jan Kretzschmar Academic W mass, W pT, W, Z cross sections in 5,13 TeV low mu runs
Samuel Alibocus Y4 student High mass CC DY cross sections
Joshua Newell Y2 PhD W mass in 5,13 TeV low mu runs
Manchester ( contacts: Andy Pilkington, Terry Wyatt, Darren Price)
Darren Price Academic VBF W 13 TeV, EFT interpretations
Ben Honan, Andrew Pilkington   EWK Wyjj observation and Wyjj differential cross sections with full Run-II
Matteo D'Uffizi, Zuchen Huang, Andrew Pilkington   ZZjj differential cross sections at full Run-II, EFT interpretations
Andrew Pilkington   ZZ polarisation and CP-sensitive observables, EFT interpretations
Andrew Pilkington, Jonny Allen   inclusive WW and WZ angular variables in Run-II+Run-III; CPV searches and EFT interpretation
Andrew Pilkington, Antonio Costa, Zuchen Huang   Inclusive Wy differential cross sections in full Run-II, CPV searches and EFT interpretations
Alexander Oh Academic VVZ production, Supervisor
Savanna Shaw Postdoc VVZ production, Analysis Contact
Tom Hitchings PhD (Start Sep 2020) Supervisor: Alexander Oh VVZ production, EFT interpretation
Patrick Dougan PhD (Start Sep 2021) Supervisor: Alexander Oh VVZ production, EFT interpretation, BSM interpretations
George Marsden   W->tau LU with R(bbWW)/R(Z)
Peng Wang   phi*_eta, tau CP
Diego Baron Postdoc Tau LU in VBF , FTAG CP
Oxford (updated Oct '23) ( contacts: Claire Gwenlan, Chris Hays)
Mandy Cooper Sarkar (Academic), Eimear Conroy (Postdoc), Claire Gwenlan (Academic), Vithyaban "Anjelo" Narendran (PhD, 2023 start)   PDF sensitivities
Eimear Conroy (Postdoc), Claire Gwenlan (Academic)   W + jets 13 TeV
Chris Hays (Academic), Simon Koch (PhD, 2021 start)   High-mass DY to tau-tau
Chris Hays (Academic), Baris Tuncay (PhD, 2023 start)   W mass
Karolos Potamianos (Academic), Luka Nedic (PhD, 2020 start)   VBS W±W±jj
Ynyr Harris (Postdoc), Alan Barr (Academic)   QCD Instantons
Claire Gwenlan (Academic), Eimear Conroy (Postdoc), Radosław "Radek" Grabarczyk (PhD, 2022 start)   Z+bb jet sub-structure
QMUL ( contacts: Eram Rizvi, Ulla Blumenschein)
Eram Rizvi Academic Low mass DY 13 TeV, sin2thW from cross-sections at 8 TeV
James Inglis PhD student (supervisor: Eram Rizvi ) High mass DY and EFTs at 13 TeV
Gitu Poddar Postdoc sin2thW from cross-sections at 8 TeV
Keanu Ghorbanian PhD student (supervisor: Eram Rizvi ) High mT W production 13 TeV
Sam Manchester PhD student (supervisor: Eram Rizvi ) High mass DY NC and CC production 13 TeV
Ulla Blumenschein Academic Z+ B(B) and Z+C, 13 TeV, Early Run-3 W,Z cross sections, 13.6 TeV
Sheffield ( contact: Kristin Lohwasser)
Kristin Lohwasser Academic WW, yy->WW
Philip Sommer   Same-sign WW, yy->WW, yy->4l
Hannes Mildner (UK SM convener)   WW and EFT
Jack MacDonald   WW
Kamal Saoucha   yy->4l
Helen Maguire   yy->WW semi-leptonic
Sussex
Mark Sutton   PDF
UCL
Mario Campanelli, Alex Sopio   Lund Plane from top and W jets
Mario Campanelli, Heifeng Cui   Lund Plane from b jets
Mario Campanelli, Toni Mlinarević   jet tagging from the Lund Plane
Mario Campanelli, Toni Mlinarević   Unfolding the Z->bb Lund Plane
Mario Campanelli , Yi He   dijets + AFP
Jon Butterworth, Christian Gutschow, Yoran Yeh   fiducial MET + jets
Jon Butterworth, Christian Gutschow, Luzhan (Tony) Yue, Peng Wang   high-mass ditau
Luzhan (Tony) Yue, Jon Butterworth   HEPData contacts
Peng Wang   SM PMG contact
Warwick
Chris Pollard Academic High-mass tau-tau
Tim Martin Academic Underlying event with K and Lambda

Fifth Table: Supersymmetry group

Person Status Activity
Sheffield
Mark Hodgkinson Academic 0L + ≥3 b-jets
Dan Tovey Academic Gluino searches with jets and MET
Davide Costanzo Academic 0L + ≥3 b-jets
Liverpool
Monica D'Onofrio Academic DM and SUSY EWK Wh, disappearing tracks, upgrade
Joe Carmignani postdoc SUSY EWK Wh
James Smith Y4 student SUSY EWK disappearing tracks
Oxford (updated 10/23)
Alan Barr Academic SUSY searches and phenomenology
Claire Gwenlan Academic Jets + MET searches
Koichi Nagai Senior researcher MultiJets + MET
Holly Pacey Research Fellow R22 staus EWK SUSY
Benjamin Hodkinson postdoc pMSSM summary, combinations
Alessandro Ruggiero PhD Student (3rd year) Gaugino searches & MET trigger
Cambridge (updated 9/23)
Christopher Lester academic Data only searches for symmetry violations, MT2 and Legacy mass measurement support, Team Leader
Tina Potter academic 4L RPV/EWK SUSY, compressed signatures, staus, combinations, deputy Team Leader
Oleg Brandt academic LLPs: DV+jets LLP search, DV+MET LLP search, LLPs @ ANUBIS, ANUBIS FLF project lead
Sarah Williams academic EWK SUSY (2/3l signatures), Higgsino signatures, pMSSM reinterpretations
[Replacement for Will Fawcett under recruitment Sept 23] (postdoc)   RPV multijet search
Dominic Jones PhD post viva compressed EWK, Staus, combinations
David Rousso PHD post viva Long-lived SUSY, DV+jets LLP search, DV+MET LLP search
Sebastian Rutherford-Colmenares 3rd year PhD EWK SUSY, Staus
Minerva Maheshwari 1st Year PhD EWK SUSY, Staus
Anna Mullin 3rd Year PhD LLPs, DV+jets interpretations
Lancaster
Maria Smizanska Academic Long Lived Sleptons, decaying to lepton + Gravitino: SM Backgrounds
Roger Jones Academic Long Lived Sleptons, decaying to lepton + Gravitino: signal modeling
Adam Barton   Long Lived SUSY Sleptons, decaying to lepton + Gravitino: Bg rejection, vertexing, software
Neza Ribaric PhD Student Long Lived SUSY Sleptons, decaying to lepton + Gravitino: signal vrt Bg optimisation: final states with electrons and mixed: muon + electron
Andy Wharton   Long-lived RPV SUSY (slepton -> lepton + gravitino) searches with micro-displaced leptons in the final state + analysis strategy for new displaced SV's searches.
Sussex
Antonella De Santo Academic EWK SUSY (SS2L /3L, combinations)
Marco Aparo Postdoc EWK SUSY (SS2L /3L, combinations)
Fabrizio Salvatore Academic EWK SUSY with taus
QMUL
Marcella Bona Academic DM+hf (bb+MET)

Sixth Table: Exotics group

Person Status Activity
Edinburgh (updated: Oct'23)
Sinead Farrington Academic LLP to taus (OPEN3GEN) ERC project lead
Yanyan Gao Academic Dark photons in LLP
Christos Leonidopoulos Academic WR/NR, anomaly detection
Ben Wynne Postdoc Non-commucative Black holes, non-minimal dark sectors, anomaly detection
Sara Alderweireldt Postdoc OPEN3GEN project, LLP to tau search, LRT tau trigger, trigger ops
Zhongyukun Xu Postdoc Dark photons in LLP, anomaly detection
Julia Silva Postdoc OPEN3GEN project, LLP to tau search, LRT tau trigger, trigger ops
Elena Villhauer Y5 PhD Non-commutative Black holes, non-minimal dark sectors
Emily Pender Y5 PhD Dark photons in LLP
Richards Gonzalez Y3 PhD Dark photons in LLP
Jack Gargan Y3 PhD Student on OPEN3GEN project
Jennifer Curran Y2 PhD Anomaly detection with dileptons, W_R + Heavy neutrino
Alex Veltman Y1 PhD Student on OPEN3GEN project
Lancaster
Iain Bertram Academic Dijet searches (extra dimensions, excited quarks, dark matter mediator,... using quark-gluon tagging ...)
Katherine Rybacki Y4 student Dijet searches (extra dimensions, excited quarks, dark matter mediator,... using quark-gluon tagging ..)
Liverpool (updated Oct. 23)
Uta Klein Academic Z' and W' searches, W'+Z' combination, HVT, LPX search for Lorentz-symmetry violating signatures with file-tons
Carl Gwilliam Academic 3rd generation LQLQ -> btaubtau
Monica D'Onofrio Academic LQ searches (3G and mixed res.), dark photons, displaced axion
Rebecca Irwin Student (Y2) h->Z displaced axion
Alessandro Biondini Y4 student dark photon searches
Cristiano Sebastiani postdoc dark photon searches
Andy Mehta Academic LQ (mixed resonances) searches
Oxford (updated Oct. 23)
James Frost Research fellow Dijet and DM searches - Mono-Higgs/mono-s(bb), 2HDMa combination
Tim Bruckler PhD Student (4th year) dark Higgs searches
Thomas Dingley PhD Student (2nd year) dark Higgs searches
Chris Hays Academic Off-shell LQ constraints from DY to tau-tau
Todd Huffman Academic dark Higgs searches
Tomoya Lizawa Postdoc Off-shell LQ constraints from DY to tau-tau
Simon Koch 3rd year PhD student Off-shell LQ constraints from DY to tau-tau
Holly Pacey Research fellow LpX sub-convenor
RHUL (Updated Oct 2023)
Tracey Berry Academic Dilepton searches (Z'/G-> ee, CI->ee, QBH)
Rosanne Hasan 2nd year PhD TLA Dimuon search, Dilepton searches (Z'-> ee), QBH
Thomas Elliot 1st year PhD Dilepton searches (Clockwork G-> ee,), QBH
Alexander Bilsland MSc Dilepton searchers
Cambridge (updated Oct. 23)
Christopher Lester Academic Charge-Flavour Violation, Non-standard sources of Parity Violation
Oleg Brandt Academic LLPs @ ANUBIS FLF project (project lead), DM search (boosted ISR(y) + large-R jet, Higgs → invisible, DM interpretations
Aashaq Shah Postdoc LLPs @ ANUBIS FLF project
Lars Henkelmann 4th Year PhD (submitted) DM search (boosted ISR(y) + large-R jet, jet substructure
Paul Jones 1st Year PhD LLP search with muon spectrometer
Gareth Bird Postdoc LNV Majorana Neutrino VBF l±l±, new LLP searches
Manchester
Candice Basson   DM+bb searches, Unfolded MET+HF jets
Darren Price Academic Unfolded MET+jets, DM+bb searches, LNV Majorana Neutrino VBF l±l± jj (l=mu, tau)
Sam Dysch   LNV Majorana Neutrino VBF l±l± jj (l=mu, tau)
Ben Wilson   LNV Majorana Neutrino VBF l±l± jj (l=mu, tau)
Volker Austrup Postdoc Leptoquarks, VBS Heavy Majorana Neutrinos
Andy Pilkington Academic Unfolded MET+jets and MET+ ll
Matous Vozak Academic Unfolded MET+ll
Terry Wyatt Academic tau LFU tests, Unfolded MET+jets
Quake Yang Qin Post-doc ttH/A->4top, heavy resonance search in 4top
Caterina Doglioni Academic BSM, dark matter and dark sectors with dijets + X including trigger-level analysis and partial event building, ex-trigger-exotics liaison (ask if help needed!), dark matter complementarity
Tobias Fitschen Postdoc full run-2 dijet trigger level analysis (TLA), early run-3 dijet+ISR TLA, full run-2 semileptonic VBS analysis, semivisible jets (SVJ+tau) phenomenology
Sukanya Sinha Postdoc BSM, dark sector semivisible jets with partial event building, trigger-exotics liaison (ask if help needed!), dark sector phenomenology
Pratik Jawahar 2nd year PhD ML anomaly detection in semi visible jets
Danielle Wilson 2nd year PhD dijet resonance analysis (DJR), dark sectors (emerging and semivisible jets)
Maximilian Amerl 2nd year PhD Run-3 dijet+ISR trigger level analysis (TLA)
Michaela Queitsch-Maitland Academic VBS Heavy Majorana Neutrinos
RAL
Will Buttinger   heavy neutral leptons
Monika Wielers   heavy neutral leptons
Julie Kirk   heavy neutral leptons
Benjamin Kerridge   LLP: HDMI (h->aa->4b, with long-lived a)
Sussex
Marco Aparo Postdoc 2HDM+VLL (2L+bb)
Antonella De Santo Academic VLLe/mu, 2HDM+VLL (2L+bb)
Shaadil Mandarry Y2 PhD 2HDM+VLL (2L+bb)
Katie Piper Y3 PhD HNL (prompt e/mu)
Fabrizio Salvatore Academic HNL (prompt e/mu)
Harry Simpson Y3 PhD VLLe/mu
Warwick
Chris Pollard Academic High-mass tau-tau
QMUL
Marcella Bona Academic Dark sector searches for dark matter (Semi-visible jets and dark jets)
UCL
Gabriel Facini Academic LLP: HDMI
Andreas Korn Academic LLP: HDMI (h->aa->4b, with long-lived a)
Emil Haines PhD (started Sep. 2020) LLP: HDMI (h->aa->4b, with long-lived a)
Melissa Yexley Postdoc LLP search
Jon Butterworth Academic Reinterpretation/Constraints on BSM using measurements.
Tony Yue Final year PhD Constraints on BSM using measurements, esp LQ with ditau
Yoran Yeh Final year PhD Constraints on BSM using measurements, esp DM with MET+jet, and EFTs
Chris Gutschow   Constraints on BSM using measurements. (MET+jets, Ditau)
Peng Wang 2nd year PhD Constraints on BSM using measurements, esp LQ with ditau

Seventh Table: B Physics group

Person Status Activity
QMUL
Marcella Bona Academic B(s) to mumu & RK* & LHC combinations of Jpsiphi & Bsmumu
Nathan Heatley   RK*
Sussex
Alex Cerri Academic B(s) to mumu BR and search, Bs to mumu lifetime
Stanislav Biryukov   B(s) to mumu BR and search, Bs to mumu lifetime
Ondrej Kovanda   B(s) to mumu BR and search, Bs to mumu lifetime
Lancaster
Maria Smizanska Academic Bs(J/psi phi) CPV, Lifetimes B+(JpsiK +),Bd(J/psi K0*) and Bs(J/psi phi)
Adam Barton   Bs(J/psi phi) CPV, Lifetimes B+(JpsiK +),Bd(J/psi K0*) and Bs(J/psi phi)
Andy Wharton   Bs(J/psi phi) CPV, Lifetimes B+(JpsiK +),Bd(J/psi K0*) and Bs(J/psi phi)
Roger Jones   Bs(J/psi phi) CPV, Lifetimes B+(JpsiK +),Bd(J/psi K0*) and Bs(J/psi phi)
Guennadi Borissov   Bs(J/psi phi) CPV, Lifetimes B+(JpsiK +),Bd(J/psi K0*) and Bs(J/psi phi)
Malcolm Skinner   Bs(J/psi phi) CPV, Lifetimes B+(JpsiK +),Bd(J/psi K0*) and Bs(J/psi phi)
Eva Bouhova-Thacker   Lifetime difference in Bd system, searches for low mass states
David Hagan   Gluon TMD studies with Jpsi + gamma final state
Vato Kartvelishvili   Heavy quarkonium production, associated production, Gluon TMD studies with Jpsi+gamma final state, searches for low-mass resonances
RAL
Julie Kirk   Bs(J/psi phi) CPV
James Walder   Bs(J/psi phi) CPV, Lifetimes B+(JpsiK +),Bd(J/psi K0*) and Bs(J/psi phi), Associated quarkonium production, searches for low mass states
Manchester
Darren Price Academic Associated quarkonium production, searches for low mass states
Liverpool (updated Oct. 23)
Carl Gwilliam Academic LFV tau -> 3mu
Jan Kretzschmar Academic LFV tau -> 3mu
Conor McPartland Y4 student LFV tau -> 3mu
RHUL
Veronique Boisvert Academic b CPV using top events, b LFV using top events
Emily Hampshire PhD 3rd year b CPV using tops, Lepton Flavour Universality Violation in b using SMT in top events
Asim Aslam PhD 1st year b CPV using tops, Lepton Flavour Universality Violation in b using SMT in top events
Davide Malito post-doc b CPV using tops, Lepton Flavour Universality Violation in b using SMT in top events

Eighth Table: Combined performance group

Person CP Group Activity
Birmingham
Andy Chisholm (academic) FTAG Calibration
Tom Neep (researcher) FTAG Calibration
Júlia Silva (PhD start Sep 2019) CTIDE Efficiency measurements (Flost)
Paul Newman (academic) Forward AFP Combined performance
Adrien Auriol (PhD start Sep 2020) Forward AFP pile-up and other simulation implementations
Cambridge (updated Oct 23)
Seb Rutherford (3rd Year PhD) JetEtMiss MET Soft Term. calibration/uncertainties / Run-3 Taskforce
Jeremy Wilkinson (2nd Year PhD) JetEtMiss MET R22/Run-3 Working point development
Minerva Maheshwari (1st Year PhD) Tau CP (tbc) Particle flow
Bill Balunas (postdoc) JetEtMiss (JSV) Jet and MET reconstruction software, derivations, analysis tools, ...
Liverpool (updated Oct 23)
Andrew Mehta (academic) FTAG charm mistag calibration
Nikos Rompotis (academic) FTAG charm mistag calibration
Uta Klein (academic) LUMI Luminosity Z counting; coordinator
Jan Kretzschmar (academic) LUMI Luminosity Z counting
Samuel Alibocus (4th year PhD) LUMI Luminosity Z counting
Josh Newell (2nd year PhD) LUMI Luminosity Z counting
Jan Kretzschmar (academic) PMG Powheg, MC production
Manchester (updated Oct. 23)
Brian Le (postdoc) JetEtMiss Jet tagging subconvenor, background SF
Zak Lawrence (4th Year) FTAG pTrel calibration
Caterina Doglioni (academic) Trigger Run-2 and Run-3 jet trigger performance and calibration, non-standard workflows (TLA, Partial Event Building)
Tobias Fitschen (postdoc) Trigger Run-3 jet trigger performance and calibration
Sukanya Sinha (postdoc) Trigger Run-3 jet trigger performance and calibration
Pratik Jawahar (2nd year PhD) Upgrade Trigger A Common Tracking Software (ACTS) for HL-LHC EF tracking
Danielle Wilson (2nd year PhD) Trigger Jet trigger: optimisation of pile-up rejection strategies
Maximilian Amerl (2nd year PhD) Trigger Run-3 trigger jet performance and calibration
Valentina Vecchio (postdoc) FTAG FTAG Calibration convenor, pTrel calibration
Mohamed Aly (3th Year) FTAG Xbb tagger validation, MC-to-MC
Joshua Winter (3th Year) FTAG Xbb CDI file, Xbb g->bb calibration
Alexander May (2nd Year PhD) JetEtMiss R22 Constituent-based top-tagger training
Patrick Dougan (PhD, 2021 start) Trigger Muon HLT FS Trigger & Monitoring
Volker Austrup (postdoc) MCP Muon Efficiency Measurement subgroup convener
Warwick
Snigdho Chakraborty (PhD, 2023 start) Jets MCJES
Chris Pollard (academic) FTAG continuous calibrations
Chris Pollard (academic) Jets MCJES

UCL
Wei Lai (1st Year PhD) FTAG algorithms
Max Hart (2nd Year PhD) Tracking algorithms, Lead Developer updated Pixel Cluster Splitting
Nikita Pond (2nd Year PhD) FTAG algorithms, Lead Developer GN2 tagger, enhancements (tau-class, loose tracking, mc20+23, k-fold, high pT performance)
Jackson Barr (3rd Year PhD) FTAG algorithms, b-jet calibration, data/MC track comparisons, Lead Developer GN2 X->bb tagger
Pippa Duckett (3rd Year PhD) FTAG, Tracking track seeding, Lead Co-Developer GN1 HL-LHC tagger
Heifeng Cui (2nd Year PhD) Trigger Dijet + AFP ToF trigger
Yi He (3rd year PhD) FWD Study of ToF performance
Toni Mlinarević (4th year PhD) FWD Data Quality infrastructure and Good Run List production
Thandi Madula (3rd Year PhD) Trigger Lead Developer GN1 for b-jet trigger
Marin Mlinarevic (4th year PhD) Trigger Algorithms for InDet Trigger, and b-jet Trigger strategy
Sebastien Rettie (postdoc) FTAG, Tracking algorithms, Tracking in Dense Environments Convener 20-23, Lead Co-Developer GN1 HL-LHC
Sam Van Stroud (postdoc) FTAG, Tracking algorithms, dense environments, fake-track rejection algorithm, GN2/SALT Co-Creater, Flavour Tagging Algorithms Convener 23-25
Liaoshan Shi (postdoc) Trigger b-jet Trigger Signature Coordinator 23-24
Melissa Yexley (postdoc) Trigger b-jet Trigger performance
Gabriel Facini (academic) Tracking dense environments, Tracking in Dense Environments Convener 18-21, Tracking Group Convener 21-23
Tim Scanlon (academic) FTAG, Tracking tracking in dense environments, flavour-tagging algorithms/calibration, Flavour Tagging Convener 13-15
Nikos Konstantinidis (academic) Trigger b-jet trigger strategy and algorithms
Mario Campanelli (academic) Trigger Convener of MinBias/FWD trigger group

Sheffield
Christos Anastopoulos (academic) e/gamma, Tracking e/gamma expert, lead developer of e/gamma software, significant contributor to tracking software
Kristin Lohwasser (academic) e/gamma e/gamma electron identification and efficiency measurements
Joshua Puddefoot PhD student e/gamma Electron LH identification
Mark Hodgkinson (Research Fellow) JetEtMiss Coordinates Global Particle Flow Activities, lead sw developer on particle flow software, machine learning for E/p measurements, technical help with topotowers work
Michael Postill (PhD Student) JetEtMiss Eta dependent rho based jet pileup corrections using topo-towers
Matt Anthony (postdoc) JetEtMiss Particle Flow and UFO configuration, technical help with topotowers work
Davide Costanzo (academic) JetEtMiss Supervision of topotowers work
Trevor Vickey (academic) TauCP TauID (happy to help in Run-3, carried out tau performance studies for HL-LHC TDRs)
Nathan Readioff (postdoc) TauCP TauID (happy to help in Run-3, contributed to Run-2 H tau-tau CP )
Mitch Norfolk (Y4 PhD) TauCP Contributed to xTauFramework (currently writing up)
Percy Leese (masters) TauCP TauID (happy to help in Run-3)
Edinburgh
Sinead Farrington (academic) TauCP convener
Guillermo Hamity (postdoc) TauCP Reco&ID, track classification
Estifa'a Zaid (Y4 PhD) TauCP Track classification
Akanksha Vishwakarma (postdoc) TauCP TauID
Sara Alderweireldt (postdoc) TauCP TauLRT object derivation
Dominik Duda (postdoc) Egamma Photon ID convener, photon isolation studies

Oxford (updated Oct. 23)
Ian Shipsey (academic) MCP muon calibration
Daniela Bortoletto (academic) FTAG algorithms, high-pT extrapolation
Holly Pacey (postdoc) JetEtMiss / Trigger All things MET; ML for MET Trigger
Thomas Yildirim (PhD, 2022 start) Trigger ML for MET Trigger
Ben Hodkinson (postdoc) JetEtMiss MET ML working point 'METNet' studies / MET validation
Siyuan Yan (PhD, 2019 start) MCP muon calibration
Eleonora Rossi (postdoc) MCP muon momentum calibration
Maxence Draguet (PhD, 2020 start) FTAG algorithms
Eimear Conroy (postdoc) JetEtMiss Pile-up tagging
Maggie Chen (PhD, 2021 start) FTag/Trigger g->bb tagger, R22 calibration
Thomas Dingley (PhD, 2022 start) FTag high pT extrapolation

Glasgow (updated Oct. 23)
Giuseppe Callea (Postdoc) FTAG Xbb tagger calibration
Adam Anderson (PhD, 2nd year) FTAG Xbb tagger calibration
Harriet Watson (PhD, 4th year Muon Muon CP liaison for the Top group
Theo Maurin (PhD, 2nd year) FTAG Rel 22/24 MC-MC SFs

Ninth Table: Software and Computing

Person Status Activity
Sheffield
Mark Hodgkinson Academic Global Particle Flow development lead
Christos Anastopoulos Academic Reconstruction group convener, egamma reco lead
Cambridge
John Chapman   Simulation Software development, former Simulation convener
Bill Balunas Postdoc Jet software
Warwick
Ben Morgan   Geant4 development and optimization
Edinburgh
Stephen Jiggins   Weak boson pmg subgroup convener
Liza Mijovic   Fast-chain simulation development
P Clark   ATLFAST3 development
T Carter   ATLFAST3 development
Dominik Duda   Fast-chain validation

Glasgow (Updated Oct 23)
Andy Buckley Academic HepMC3, Pythia8 expert
Giuseppe Callea Postdoc Physics Validation convener (2021-23), Reprocessing convener (2023-ongoing)
Dwayne Spiteri GRID/ATLAS Post-doc Sustainable Computing
Emanuele Simili GRID Post-doc Sustainable Computing
David Britton GRID Academic Grid management, Sustainable Computing
Albert (Bruno) Borbely GRID/ATLAS Post-doc Sustainable Computing
Oxford
Todd Huffman Academic b-tagging reco
Chris Hays Academic PMG Software support
UCL
Chris Gutschow   Sherpa and Rivet expert, former PMG convener
Sam Van Stroud   b-tagging reco
Peng Wang   Rivet and Contur QT
Yoran Yeh   Herwig 7, Yoda
Tony Yue   ART
Liverpool
Jan Kretzschmar Academic Powheg support, former PMG convener
Manchester
Q. Dong   boosted tau reco
Pratik Jawahar   ACTS and traccc
Birmingham
Paul Thompson   Weak boson pmg subgroup convener
Sussex
Josh McFayden Academic dataset discovery tools, madgraph expert, former PMG convener
RAL
Tim Adye   Statistical analysis software (RooUnfold)
Will Buttinger   Statistical analysis software (StatAnalysis, xRooFit, TRooFit), AthAnalysis expert, former ASG convener (2015-2017)


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