I build generative models that stand in for slow physics simulation, and I get them into production. Postdoctoral researcher at DESY in Hamburg.
I design and train generative models that replace slow Monte Carlo simulation. At DESY I lead work on surrogate models for the calorimeters of future Higgs factories: CaloClouds 3 generates photon showers around a hundred times faster than standard simulation, and AllShowers covers twelve particle species in a single model — the first time that has been done. Most of my interest is in what happens after the paper: distilling models down for inference, compiling them with TorchScript, and getting them into the C++ toolchains where other people can actually use them.
Before Hamburg I validated fast simulation for ATLAS at CERN, working inside a seven-million-line codebase maintained by developers in forty countries, and worked on jet and dijet cross-sections. My PhD was on jet clustering built from eigenvalue spectra. On the side I am tracking particle histories through extensive air showers with CORSIKA 8.
Generative surrogate simulation for future collider experiments. Led CaloClouds 3 and contributed to AllShowers; distilled models for roughly hundred-fold faster inference; used transfer learning to carry models between detector geometries and materials. Supervise summer and masters students.
Validation and deployment of fast simulation for ATLAS (AtlFast3 and FastCaloSim v3). Automated the validation pipeline while keeping it flexible enough for a stream of new models, and refactored the C++ production environment to support several inference runtimes. Member of the collaboration during the period recognised by the 2025 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics.
Developed spectral clustering for jet formation, supervised by an interdisciplinary team spanning physics and computer science. Trained in the NGCM and NExT doctoral centres. Seconded to Cadi Ayyad University in Morocco, where I profiled and refactored Higgs-physics software for a 30% speed-up and containerised its stack.
First class integrated masters, thesis on QCD on the light cone. Research projects with the Hyper-Kamiokande collaboration and the theory group at TU Munich.
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