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PhD students

Master students

Grégoire Van San

Master Student

Shining light on top quarks: Measuring the interplay between the heaviest particle and the massless photon with the highest-energy LHC

Kobe Degeetere

Master Student

At the energy frontier: Searching for hidden new-physics effects in four-top quark events

Laura Van den Abbeele

Master Student

TileCal: Calorimeter design using plastic scintillators for the SHiP experiment at CERN

Thomas Vandenbergh

Master Student

Tracing jet origins: Boosted object identification for precision Higgs searches

Weronika Sadowska

Master Student

DisplacedCMS: Search for long-lived particles with the CMS experiment at CERN

Xander Roofthooft

Master Student

FastRead: Fast readout electronics for particle detectors

Previous PhD students

2018-2025

Muon Detector Development for the CMS Phase-2 Upgrade and Muon Radiography Applications

2018-2024

Search for long-lived heavy neutral leptons in semileptonic final states

2018-2025

An empirical ice model for the Radio Neutrino Observatory in Greenland (RNO-G)

2018-2021

The CMS GEM upgrade and development of Fast Timing Micro-Pattern Gaseous Detectors

2018-2023

Measurement of top quark pair-production in association with a photon using CMS detector and Effective Field Theory interpretation

2018-2022

The SoLid neutrino experiment: stabilising, operating, understanding and upgrading the detector

2018-2021

Development of the oscillation analysis framework for the SoLid experiment

2018-2019

Search for Supersymmetry and the measurement of the top pair-production in association with a W or a Z boson With the CMS detector at the LHC

2019-2025

Measurements of rare processes with top quarks and electroweak bosons in proton-proton collisions at the CMS detector

2018-2022

Search for heavy neutral leptons in pp collision events with three charged leptons using the CMS detector

2021-2026

First observation of four top quark production in proton-proton collisions at the CMS detector

2018-2023

Studies of TeV muons in cosmic-ray air showers detected with IceTop and IceCube

2018-2024

A study of top quark pairs production in association with a W boson

2018-2019

Search for particles with anomalous charge in the Icecube detector

2018-2022

Searches for undiscovered processes using the multilepton final state in proton-proton collisions at CMS

Previous master students 2024-2025

Aiko Decaluwe

Previous Master students

2024-2025
Probing soil moisture using scintillation detectors

Danté Bouckhout

Previous Master students

2024-2025
SiPM characterization: A custom setup and measurements

Gill Jacobs 

Previous Master students

2024-2025
Towards quantum state tomography with elementary qutrits: Measuring spin correlations in diboson events

Stijn Verhulst

Previous Master students

2024-2025
Study of Top Quark Production at Future Electron-Positron Colliders