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Education and Experience

Education

• 1996 - 2001: PhD experimental high energy physics, UvA, Amsterdam (with prof.dr. P.M. Kooijman)
Measurement of the structure function F2 with the ZEUS detector at HERA, DESY (paper) (cited by) (PhD thesis)
• 1991 - 1996: MSc theoretical physics, UvA, Amsterdam (with prof.dr.H. Verlinde)
Backreaction and black hole radiation (preprint) (MSc thesis)
• 1985 - 1991: Highschool in Varese, Italy

Employment

• 2007 - present: Senior researcher at NWO/Nikhef, Amsterdam
• 2022 - present: member plenary ECFA
• 2023 - 2024: Run coordinator of the LHCb experiment
• 2019 - 2022: deputy chair Nikhef internal scientific council (WAR)
• 2020 - 2022: Physics coordinator of the LHCb experiment
• 2015 - 2015: CERN scientific associate
• 2017 - 2018: Run coordinator of the LHCb experiment
• 2012 - 2018: Member of LHCb Technical Board (TB)
• 2012 - 2018: Project Leader of Outer Tracker subdetector
• 2012 - 2017: Organizer Nikhef Staff meetings
• 2012 - 2013: Member of LHCb Editorial Board (EB)
• 2004 - 2007: Postdoc at Free University (VU), Amsterdam
Responsible for quality assurance of Outer Tracker module production.
Responsible for the analysis of the test-beam data.
In-depth study of radiation effects on Outer Tracker detector modules.
• 2001 - 2004: Research Fellow at CERN, Geneva
Developed matching of L0 trigger objects to VELO tracks.
Study of systematic trigger effects.
Measured VELO sensors in test-beam under large angle.

Research

Research Interest

• Bs->DsK/pi
gamma with Bs->DsK (CONF) b->u transition with B0->piDs (paper) and Lb->pDs (paper)
Bs oscillation frequency Delta ms (paper)
Prediction of CP sensitivity gamma in Bs->DsK (paper)
Branching fraction ratio BR(Bs->DsK)/BR(Bs->Dspi) (paper)
Effect of Bs-from-Bc on Bs analyses through quantifying BR(Bc->Bspi) (paper)
• Bs->mumu
Reduce the largest systematic uncertainty from the ratio of fragmentation fractions fs/fd (method, meas. 1, meas. 2)
Effect of lifetime difference between BH and BL on BR(Bs->mumu) (paper)
• Factorisation
Relate various B->Dh decays and quantify non-factorisable effects in B->Dh decays (paper)
• Detector technology
Radiation tolerance of gaseous detectors (papers on: phenomenon, aromatic hydrocarbons, in situ)
Performance of the Outer Tracker detector (run-I) (run-II)
Commissioning of Scintillating Fiber Tracker (status report)

Publications

• Key publications
• Full list of publications
• Citation statistics

Conferences

• Presentations at conferences

Awards and Conferences

• 2017 - 2023: Awarded a Vici grant by NWO (1500k€)
• 2007 - 2012: Awarded a Vidi grant by NWO (600k€)
• Plenary talk on Rare decays of B, D and K mesons, ICHEP 2018 (video: 25'-55').
• ECFA: LHCb and Belle II: present status and expectations (recording)
• Full list of conference contributions
• Conference organisation:
  • LHCP 2023
  • Flavour Anomaly Workshop 2021
  • Implications Workshop 2020
  • Focus sessions Physics at Veldhoven
  • 2021 ("Why 3!? Fundamental physics in the early universe")
  • 2025 ("What's the matter with anti-matter?")
  • FOM Veldhoven 2015
  • Beauty2011
  • HERA LHC workshop 2004

Teaching

• 2025 (May): CERN School Collider Experiments: the LHC & Beyond at CERN-Latin American School CLASHEP
• 2022 (Nov): Special course "Detecting CP violation with B decays" at Genoa University
• 2016, 2019: PhD lectures Rare decays
• 2015 - 2020: Master Course "Particle Physics II" at the UvA in Amsterdam
• 2013 - 2020: Master Course "Elementary Particles"at the TU in Delft
• 2009 - 2014: Master Course "CP violation" at the UvA in Amsterdam
• 2006 - 2008: Master Course "Particle Physics II" at the UvA in Amsterdam
• Lectures for general public

Supervision

PhD

• Lex Greeven3 Apr 2024 (PhD thesis)
• Jordy Butter 13 Jun 2023 (PhD thesis)
• Michele Veronesi 15 Nov 2021 (PhD thesis)
• Lennaert Bel 15 Mar 2019 (PhD thesis)
• Rose Koopman 3 Nov 2015 (PhD thesis)
• Daan van Eijk 15 Oct 2012 (PhD thesis)
• Barbara Storaci 19 Sep 2012 (PhD thesis)
• Fabian Jansen 16 Dec 2011 (PhD thesis)
• Gabriel Ybeles Smit 23 Feb 2010 (PhD thesis)
• Peter Vankov 5 Nov 2008 (PhD thesis)
• Bart Hommels 18 Oct 2006 (PhD thesis)

MSc

• Jordy Butter June 2018 (MSc thesis)
• Marinda Tervoert June 2018 (MSc thesis) (UU EMMEPH Thesis Award 2018)
• Mick Mulder 1 Jul 2015 (MSc thesis)
• Lennaert Bel 1 Jul 2014 (MSc thesis)
• Jacco de Vries 1 Jun 2013 (MSc thesis) (2nd prize UvA Thesis Award 2014)
• Erwin Visser 9 Jul 2010 (MSc thesis)
• Mathieu Blom 8 Jun 2009 (MSc thesis)
• Ivan Mous 15 Nov 2007 (MSc thesis)