The SMB team
I have led the Standard Model and Beyond (SMB) team at the Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY since 2023, and hold a jointly appointed professorship at the Universität Bern. I currently supervise four PhD students.
Current team members
Lukas Bauckhage - PhD student
Annabel Kropf - PhD student
Mariana Vivas Albornoz - PhD student
Carlos Maciel Santillan - PhD student
Former team members (since 2018)
Dr. Jorge Sabater Iglesias (PhD student 2018 - 2020, thesis) → Postdoc at Universitè de Geneve
Dr. Sonia Carrà (DESY fellow 2019 - 2021) → Postdoc at Università degli Studi di Milano
Dr. Marco Rimoldi (DESY fellow 2019 - 2023) → CERN fellow
Dr. Hamish Teagle (PhD student 2019 - 2021, thesis) → Machine learning Engineer
Dr. Emily Thompson (PhD student 2019 - 2021, thesis) → Chamberlain fellow at LBNL
Dr. Alessandro Biondini (PhD student 2019 - 2021, thesis) → Industry
Dr. Tadej Novak (DESY fellow 2021 - 2023) → Marie Curie fellow at Lubljiana
Dr. Yvonne Ng (DESY fellow 2022 - 2024) → Postdoc at Univ. Illinois at Urbana Champaign
Dr. Yee Chinn Yap (Postdoctoral researcher 2021 - 2025)
Dr. David Spataro (PhD student 2021 - 2025) → Postdoc at Forschungszentrum Juelich
Dr. Rebecca Irwin (PhD student 2021 - 2025) → Data Scientist
Dr. Thomas McLachlan (PhD student 2021 - 2026)
Dr. Jakub Kremer (DESY fellow 2023 - 2026) → Lecturer at Krakow AGH University
Dr. Thomas Madlener (Postdoctoral researcher 2025 - 2026) → DESY Scientist