I am an assistant professor at Durham University and an STFC Ernest Rutherford Fellow studying the phenomenology of quark-flavour physics at the precision frontier. My research interests include:
- QCD
- Heavy-Quark Effective Theory
- Dispersion Relations (and other low-energy approaches to QCD)
- Weak Effective Theory
Publications
Public Computer Packages
Lectures
- 2022/2023 – “Higgs Boson Phenomenology” as part of the course “Particles, Strings and Cosmology”
- 2023/2024 – “Higgs Boson Phenomenology” as part of the course “Particles, Strings and Cosmology”
- 2024/2025 – “Higgs Boson Phenomenology” as part of the course “Particles, Strings and Cosmology”
PDRAs
| Name | Start Date | End Date | Papers |
|---|---|---|---|
| Currently | |||
| Matthew Kirk | 01/10/2023 | TBD | |
| Formerly | |||
| Meril Reboud (IPPP & TU Munich) | 01/12/2022 | 30/09/2023 | 2310.06734 2309.11353 2309.10365 2307.08745 2305.06301 2302.05268 2208.08937 2206.03797 2111.15428 |
| Clara Peset (TU Munich) | 01/10/2020 | 30/11/2021 | |
| Ahmet Kokulu (TU Munich) | 01/08/2017 | 31/07/2019 | 1811.00983 1907.12554 |
PhD Students
If you are interested in undertaking a PhD project with me, please refer to this page for application deadlines and instructions.
| Name | Thesis Title | Year Awarded | Papers |
|---|---|---|---|
| Currently | |||
| Ery McPartland | N/A | N/A | |
| Stephan Kürten (TU Munich & Bonn U) | N/A | 2025 (tent.) | 2312.00619 2210.09832 2111.15428 |
| Formerly | |||
| Philip Lüghausen (TU Munich & Siegen U) | Anatomy of the B-meson Light-Cone Distribution Amplitude | 2024 | 2306.14686 2203.15679 2111.15428 |
| Nico Gubernari (TU Munich) | Applications of Light-Cone Sum Rules in Flavour Physics | 2020 | 2011.09813 2007.10338 1912.09335 1811.00983 |
Master’s Students
| Name | Thesis Title | Year Awarded | Papers |
|---|---|---|---|
| Currently | |||
| Filip Novak (TU Munich) | Toward a complete description of b→uℓν decays within the Weak Effective Theory | 2023 | 2302.05268 |
| Viktor Kuschke (TU Munich) | Pinning Down Non-Local Contributions in b→sℓℓ | 2023 | N/A |
| Formerly | |||
| Stefan Meiser (TU Munich) | Investigating B̅⁰ → Dq⁺ L⁻ decay in and beyond the Standard Model | 2022 | 2111.15428 |
| Muslem Rahimi (TU Munich) | Constraining the Phases of the Decay Amplitudes B → K⁽*⁾ {J/ψ, ψ(2S)} | 2019 | N/A |
