Talks, Theses and more¶
Particle Physics¶
Conference contributions, seminars and public outreach¶
DPG-Frühjahrstagung 2026 (Erlangen)
"💻 The Production Database of the High-Granularity Timing Detector for the ATLAS Phase-II Upgrade"
Contribution | March 2026
DPG-Frühjahrstagung 2025 (Göttingen)
"💻 Development of the Production Database of the High-Granularity Timing Detector for the ATLAS Phase-II Upgrade"
Contribution | March 2025
ETAP Seminar (Mainz)
"📊 Novel Jet Flavour Tagging Algorithms exploiting Adversarial Deep Learning Techniques"
Contribution | April 2024
DPG-Frühjahrstagung 2023 (Dresden)
"Development of novel machine learning algorithms for robust jet flavour classification for Run3 at CMS"
Contribution | March 2023
DPG-Frühjahrstagung 2023 (Dresden)
"Direct search for Higgs boson decay to a pair of charm quarks in the vector boson associated production mode at CMS"
Contribution | March 2023
ML4Jets Workshop 2022 (Rutgers University, US / online)
"Adversarial training for b-tagging algorithms in CMS" (On behalf of the CMS Collaboration)
Contribution | November 2022
ACAT 2022 (Bari, Italy / online)
"Improving robustness of jet tagging algorithms with adversarial training"
Contribution | October 2022
10 Jahre Higgs (RWTH Aachen)
10 Jahre Higgs. Das CERN, die RWTH und der Ursprung der Masse 🌌
Video (YouTube) | July 2022
CDCS Opening Symposium 2022 (DESY, Hamburg)
Poster: "Improving robustness of jet tagging algorithms with adversarial training"
Presented at Center for Data and Computing in Natural Sciences
Won Best Poster Award: First Place
Contribution (DESY Indico) | April 2022
DPG-Frühjahrstagung 2022 (Heidelberg / online)
"Investigation of robustness of b-Tagging algorithms for the CMS Experiment"
Contribution (Tagungsserver) | CINCO (restricted access) | March 2022
DPG-Frühjahrstagung 2021 (Dortmund / online)
"AI-safety for jet flavour tagging at the CMS experiment"
Contribution (Tagungsserver) | March 2021
Other¶
PostDoc (JGU), ATLAS internal
ATLAS Top Workshop 2026 (CERN)
"📊 Past and present of Top frameworks"
Contribution (restricted access) | May 2026
ATLAS Mainz Workshop 2026
"📖 Documentation - how to find it, how to write it"
Contribution (restricted access) | January 2026
ATLAS Week 2025 (Paestum, Italy)
"📊 Top quark-antiquark pair reconstruction in the lepton+jets channel with SpaNet on detector- and particle-level"
Won Poster Award: Committee's Selection
Contribution (restricted access) | October 2025
Internal meetings: Higgs, Multi-Boson, and SUSY searches
Central Methods and Background Forum
"📊 The TopCPToolkit framework"
Contribution (restricted access) | January 2026
Internal meetings: Exotics Group and Subgroups Meetings
Exotics LUP Subgroup Meeting
"📊 CalRatio+top"
Contribution (restricted access) | April 2025
Internal meetings: Upgrade for High Luminosity - HGTD
Demonstrator
- "🛠️ Flex Tails at the Demonstrator: Recap of length measurements + proposal for order"
Contribution (restricted access) | October 2024 - "🛠️ Demonstrator Checks for Flex Tail Length Calculation"
Contribution (restricted access) | July 2024
HGTD Weeks and Expert Weeks
- HGTD week at CERN, Plenary session Modules and Detector Units: SU, DU, Flex Tails:
"💻 Feedback from expert week on DB usage"
Contribution (restricted access) | November 2025 - HGTD expert week:
"💻 HGTD Production Database Tutorial"
Contribution (restricted access) | November 2025 - HGTD week at Clermont-Ferrand, Plenary session Modules and Detector Units: SU, DU, Flex Tails:
"🛠️ Status and plans for flex tail pre-production"
Contribution (restricted access) | July 2025 - HGTD (mini) week (Monday-Thursday) during ATLAS upgrade week:
"💻 Database status"
Contribution (restricted access) | March 2025 - HGTD (long) week (Monday-Friday), Plenary session Modules and Detector Units:
"💻 QT report: HGTD production DB development"
Contribution (restricted access) | February 2025 - HGTD Mini Week:
"💻 Module / slot labeling schemes (for the HGTD production database)"
Contribution (restricted access) | November 2024 - HGTD Week in Beijing, China, Plenary session Modules and Detector Units:
"💻 Updates on HGTD production database"
Contribution (restricted access) | July 2024 - HGTD (mini) week (Monday-Thursday) during ATLAS upgrade week:
"🛠️ Flex Tail Status"
Contribution (restricted access) | April 2024
Integration / CAD
- "📐 Overview new drawing 3F Lite + DUs / Measurements / Discussion"
Contribution (restricted access) | January 2026 - "📐 Summary of CAD drawing findings"
Contribution (restricted access) | July 2025
Module Assembly and Loading
- "🛠️ Flex tail lengths and needs for testing"
Contribution (restricted access) | January 2026 - "💻 DB Updates: Analysis on Hybrid IV, VBD and sensor measurements"
Contribution (restricted access) | January 2026 - "💻 ProdDB updates: interface scripts and integration with FADAPro"
Contribution (restricted access) | October 2025 - "💻 HGTD DB Tools Update"
Contribution (restricted access) | September 2025 - "🛠️ Flex Tail Lengths based on 3D drawings and updated tables"
Contribution (restricted access) | June 2025 - "💻 HGTD Tools - A new GUI to visually interact with the HGTD Production Database"
Contribution (restricted access) | May 2025 - "💻 Developments of Hybrid / Sensor matching algorithms with the Production Database, using information on IV curves and VBD measurements"
Contribution (restricted access) | April 2025 - "🛠️ Flex Tail Lengths for (Pre-)Production with ALTIROC-A"
Contribution (restricted access) | December 2024 - "💻 Module / slot labeling schemes for the DB"
Contribution (restricted access) | November 2024 - "🛠️ Flex Tails at the Demonstrator: Lengths / stacking and further tests"
Contribution (restricted access) | September 2024 - "🛠️ Flex Tail Studies and New Changes"
Contribution (restricted access) | March 2024
Open Steering
- "💻 HGTD Production Database Update"
Contribution (restricted access) | September 2025
Production Database
- "💻 HGTD DB Tools Update"
Contribution (restricted access) | September 2025 - "💻 Review of (Admin) Lists"
Contribution (restricted access) | August 2025 - "💻 Developments of Hybrid / Sensor matching algorithms with the Production Database, using information on IV curves and VBD measurements"
Contribution (restricted access) | April 2025 - "💻 HGTD Production database"
Contribution (restricted access) | January 2025 - "💻 Lookup table for positions / different labeling schemes"
Contribution (restricted access) | September 2024 - "💻 HGTD production database - current attributes"
Contribution (restricted access) | August 2024
Earlier, PhD + Master, CMS
PhD Talk
"Novel jet flavour tagging algorithms exploiting adversarial deep learning techniques with efficient computing methods and preparation of open data for robustness studies"
RWTH Publications | September 2024
RTG Review (Aachen)
"Robust Jet Tagging Algorithms and AI Safety with CMS Open Data"
Internal / for DFG Review Panel. Only student selected to represent HEP-experiment with a talk. | July 2023
FSP CMS Workshop 2022 (RWTH Aachen)
"Towards robust jet tagging algorithms for Run3"
Contribution (restricted access) | September 2022
Annual Retreat of the GRK 2497 (Research Training Group) 2022 (Wiehl)
"Robust jet tagging algorithms (and an outlook to future plans)"
Contribution (restricted access) | September 2022
Master Talk
"Investigation of robustness of b-Tagging algorithms for the CMS Experiment"
CERN Document Server | October 2021
FSP CMS Workshop 2021 (online)
"Investigation of robustness of deep learned b-tagging algorithms"
Contribution (restricted access) | September 2021
Master and PhD projects, internal
ErUM-AISafety (BMBF)
AISafety Kickoff Meeting (JGU Mainz): "Preliminary Work in Aachen: CMS Flavor Tagging (15+5)"
Contribution | April 2023
Internal meetings: Learning and Training in CMS
- CMS Data Analysis School @ CERN 2023: "Short exercise 3B: Flavour tagging"
Contribution (restricted access) | Contains also additional material, my code | June 2023
Internal meetings: X-POG office
- Cross-POG Meeting: "L2 POG roundtable, BTV: Update on ParT for AK4 jets"
Contribution (restricted access) | May 2023
Internal meetings: Training Framework Restructuring
- BTV: "Training Framework Restructuring [BTV Software & HLT]"
Acting as host of the meeting (restricted access) | April 2023
Acting as host of the meeting (restricted access) | March 2023 - RWTH Aachen: "Kickoff-Meeting: Training Framework Restructuring [BTV Software & HLT]"
Acting as host of the meeting (restricted access) | January 2023
Internal meetings: Offline & Computing Coordination: Application Development
- Reconstruction and Analysis Tools: "General status and feedback from DPGs / POGs"
Contribution as BTV Reco Contact (restricted access) | January 2023
Internal meetings: Physics Performance & Datasets Group (PPD)
- PPD General Meeting: "DP note approval: Adversarial training for b-tagging algorithms in CMS"
Contribution PPD General Meeting (restricted access) | October 2022
Internal meetings: b Tag & Vertexing Physics Object Group (BTV)
- Special CMS-POG BTAG-WG meeting: "Introduction to pfNano (VIRTUAL)"
Contribution BTV-POG BTAG-WG Meeting (restricted access) | May 2023 - CMS-POG BTAG-WG meeting: "Adversarial training for ParticleTransformer AK4"
UPDATE: Contribution BTV-POG BTAG-WG Meeting (restricted access) | February 2023
UPDATE: Contribution BTV-POG BTAG-WG Meeting (restricted access) | January 2023
Contribution BTV-POG BTAG-WG Meeting (restricted access) | December 2022 - CMS-POG BTAG-WG meeting: "BTV@HLT Session: Training Framework Restructuring"
Contribution BTV-POG BTAG-WG Meeting (restricted access) | November 2022 - BTV meeting: "Summary Talk: ML4Jets Workshop"
Contribution BTV meeting (restricted access) | November 2022 - CMS-POG BTAG-WG (VIRTUAL) meeting: "DP note: adversarial training for b-tagging algorithms in CMS"
Contribution BTV-POG BTAG-WG Meeting (restricted access) | September 2022 - BTV meeting (x2): "Adversarial training for DeepJet"
UPDATE: Contribution BTV meeting (restricted access) | September 2022
Contribution BTV meeting (restricted access) | May 2022
Code (for DeepJet) - BTV meeting (CMS Week): "AI safety for jet flavor tagging"
Contribution BTV meeting during CMS Week (restricted access) | April 2022
Code (for a FCNN / paper) - CMS-POG BTAG-WG meeting: "TopMuEG skim code for MuEG trigger paths"
Contribution BTV-POG BTAG-WG Meeting (restricted access) | March 2022
Pull Request - CMS-POG BTAG-WG meeting (x2): "Adding DeepJet input variables to PFNano"
UPDATE: Contribution BTV-POG BTAG-WG Meeting (restricted access) | January 2022
Contribution BTV-POG BTAG-WG Meeting (restricted access) | November 2021
Pull Request
Group Theory (Mathematics)¶
Annual Retreat of the GRK 2497 (Research Training Group) 2022 (Wiehl)
"Our whole life is solving puzzles"
An (almost) non-physics presentation on Rubik's Cubes, speedsolving and group theoretical aspects.
Contribution (restricted access) | September 2022
Bachelor's thesis
"Die Gruppentheorie des Zauberwürfels und des Skewbs"
PDF | January 2019
Interview for laymen (podcast) | February 2019
Outstanding Thesis Award | January 2020
Interview Deutschlandfunk | August 2020
Note: all linked resources are only available in German.