Feb 2023 –
present
Postdoctoral researcher, ALICE experiment
Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN), Padova, Italy
The contract began on 6 February 2023, during the final thesis-writing phase of the PhD. The doctoral degree was awarded on 4 December 2023.
Physics measurements
- Charm-strange baryon (Ξ+c) production in pp and Pb–Pb collisions in LHC Run 3 (2022–26), using machine learning techniques.
- Machine learning-based signal selection. Extracted the invariant-mass signals of Ξ+c → pK−π+ and Λ+c → pK−π+ with Boosted Decision Trees (BDTs) to optimize signal-to-background separation, particularly in the low-transverse-momentum region, in pp collisions.
- Physics analysis and dissemination. Measured the charm baryon-to-baryon ratio Ξ+c/Λ+c in pp collisions at √s = 13.6 TeV, compared the results with theoretical QCD models, and presented these findings for the first time in two talks (Talk 1, Talk 2) at the SQM 2026 conference.
Software development
- Software tools for data-driven calibration of Monte Carlo simulations.
- Main developer of the software implementation of a method that modifies the spatial and momentum resolutions of reconstructed tracks in the simulation to reproduce those estimated in data with data-driven techniques. The approach has since been adopted in multiple ALICE heavy-flavor analyses to help reduce systematic uncertainties. This is crucial for the measurements of all hadrons decaying far from the primary vertex, especially hadrons containing charm or beauty quarks.
Oct 2018 –
Dec 2023
Doctoral researcher, ALICE experiment
Institute of Nuclear Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences (IFJ PAN), Kraków, Poland
PhD in high-energy nuclear physics. Advisor: Dr. hab. Jacek Otwinowski. Thesis defended on 24 November 2023, degree awarded on 4 December 2023.
Thesis: “Prompt and non-prompt J/ψ production in Pb–Pb collisions at √sNN = 5.02 TeV with ALICE experiment”
Physics measurements
- Prompt and non-prompt J/ψ production in Pb–Pb collisions at √sNN = 5.02 TeV in the ALICE experiment.
- Extraction of non-prompt J/ψ fractions using two-dimensional simultaneous likelihood fits on the invariant mass and decay length of J/ψ candidates, reconstructed via the J/ψ → e+e− decay channel at midrapidity using datasets collected during LHC Run 2.
- Determination of nuclear modification factors and production yields of prompt and non-prompt J/ψ as a function of transverse momentum and collision centrality.
Detector development
- Contribution to the development of the ALICE Fast Interaction Trigger (FIT) detector for LHC Run 3 during Long Shutdown 2 (LS2).
- Tested the signal and high-voltage setup for all channels of the FIT-FT0 detector. Also contributed to detector commissioning, taking part in cosmic-ray data taking and data analysis.
- Tested the performance of FIT-FV0 detector channels with laser signals after commissioning at the LHC, CERN (Link 1, Link 2).
- FIT software: developed time-calibration tasks in the Quality Control framework for the FV0 detector (PR), and tested time calibration for FV0 channels with laser and simulation data (Link).
Jul –
Oct 2018
Research assistant
Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Indore, India
- Investigated freeze-out temperatures and radial flow in proton–proton collisions at √s = 7 TeV by analyzing the transverse-momentum spectra of produced charged and strange hadrons.
- Acquired expertise in thermodynamic modeling (Blast-Wave models and Tsallis statistics) to extract key thermodynamic parameters and describe the collective expansion of the system.
Aug 2016 –
Jul 2018
M.Sc. Physics
Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras, India
Thesis: “Elliptic flow of charged hadrons in Pb–Pb collisions at √sNN = 2.76 TeV using the AMPT”. Advisor: Dr. Prabhat Pujahari.
- Studied the collective behavior of the hot, dense medium produced in Pb–Pb collisions at √sNN = 2.76 TeV by analyzing azimuthal anisotropy observables using the AMPT event generator.
- Acquired expertise in heavy-ion event generators, relativistic kinematics, and heavy-ion phenomenology, with a focus on characterizing elliptic flow as a smoking-gun signature of QGP formation.
Aug 2012 –
Aug 2015
B.Sc.
University of Kota, India
