Group members
Compact Muon Solenoid Experiment
Group members
Dirk
Krücker
Senior Scientist
Work areas:
- SUSY and Dark Matter searches with machine learning
- Leptonic SUSY analyses, search for top squarks
- Common LHC/ILC study for Snowmass
- Multivariate Analyses
- Machine learning
- Data Quality Monitoring
- Responsible for DESY CMS Center
David
Brunner
PhD student
Work areas:
- Search for charged Higgs decaying to a light Higgs boson and a W boson in an inverted 2HDM
- Alignment and calibration of the Silicon tracker
Leonid
Didukh
PhD student
Work areas:
- Search for SUSY with tau final states
- MET tail studies
Hamburg
Ashraf
Mohamed
PhD student
Work areas:
- Search for gluino production in the single lepton final state using machine learning methods with 13 TeV
- Hadron Outer Calorimeter Upgrade
Alumni:
Ilja
Bobovnikov
PhD obtained in 2019
Work areas:
- Search for SUSY with tau final states
- MET tail studies
Akshansh
Singh
PhD obtained in 2019
Work areas:
- Search for gluino production in the single lepton final state with 13 TeV in 2016
- Search for disappearing tracks with 2016 data
- MET scanning, filters for high MET events
Hamburg
Alexis
Kalogeropoulos
Postdoc - now at Princeton
Work areas:
- Search for stau production
- Higgs -> tau tau analysis
- SUSY Monte Carlo and trigger subgroup convener 2014-2016
Artur
Lobanov
PhD obtained in 2016 - now at École Polytechnique Paris/Saclay
Work areas:
- HCAL HO upgrade: SiPM installation and commissioning
- Search for supersymmetry in 1-lepton events with 13 TeV data
Hamburg
Claudia
Seitz
Postdoc - now at staff in the DESY ATLAS group
Work areas:
- Single lepton search for gluino production
- Top and W tagging
- CMS Pixel upgrade (Phase I)
- SUSY studies for the Phase II Technical Proposal
Hamburg
Ozgur
Sahin
PhD obtained in 2016 - now staff at CEA/Saclay
Joachim Hertz Scholarship holder
Work areas:
- Upgrade of the HCAL with uTCA technology
- Search for top squarks with one lepton in the final state
- Multivariate analysis: Support vector machine and boosted decision trees
Hamburg
Altan
Cakir
Postdoc - now Associate Professor at Istanbul Technical University
Work areas:
- Leptonic SUSY analyses, search for top squarks
- Simulations for the CMS upgrade
- Common LHC/ILC study for Snowmass
Hamburg
Francesco
Costanza
PhD obtained in 2014 - now in the ATLAS group in Annecy
Thesis title:
Search for Pair Production of Supersymmetric Top-Quark Partners in Events with a Single Lepton at CMS
Work areas:
- Search for direct stop production
- SUSY group PPD contact (2012-2013)
- Data Quality Monitoring
Niklas
Pietsch
PhD obtained in 2014
Thesis title:
Search for Supersymmetry in Final States with a Single Lepton, B-Quark Jets, and Missing Transverse Energy at the CMS Experiment
Work areas:
- Data Quality Monitoring
- Leptonic SUSY analysis
- DESY CMS Center
Hamburg
Elias
Ron
DESY Fellow:
Work areas:
- Same-sign di-lepton analysis
Hamburg
Hannes
Schettler
PhD obtained in 2013
Thesis title:
The Event-Mixing Technique for Modeling the ttbar Background in a Search for Supersymmetry in the Di-Lepton Channel
Work areas:
- Search for supersymmetry with two opposite-sign leptons
- Member of the SUSY CAF team (SUSY validation / data quality monitoring)
Hamburg
Matthias
Stein
PhD obtained in 2012
Thesis title:
Search for SUSY in Same-Sign Di-Lepton Events with the CMS Detector
Work areas:
- Simulation studies for the HCAL upgrade (weighting algorithms)
- Search for supersymmetric decays including two same-sign leptons
Hamburg
Dean
Horton
DESY-Fellow (member of the group from 2011-2013)
Work areas:
- Search for supersymmetry in events with b-tagged jets
- Limit setting
Hamburg
Summerstudents 2019:
Farouk Mokhtar, Ivan Pidhurskyi, Kirill Bukin and Artem Nigoian
Summerstudents 2018:
Mitzi Urquiza Gonzalez, Juliia Sheleva, Mykyta Shchedrolosiev and Christoph Smaczny
Summerstudents 2017:
Ceren Güzelgün, Natalia Lenshina and Marco Costa
Summerstudents 2016:
Georgios Polykratis and Emmanouil Vourliotis
Summerstudents 2015:
Sophie Williamson and Alena Kolchanova
Summerstudents 2014:
Nadezda Chernyavskaya and Sergio Sanchez Cruz
Summerstudent 2013:
Xing Wang
Summerstudent 2012:
Andrew McMahon
Summerstudent 2011:
Alina Mrenca
Summerstudent 2010:
Maria Erofeeva
Summerstudent 2009:
Ilka Geisel
Last updated on 24-08-2017