About the Speakers

Markus Ahlers

Fabrice Balli

Fabrice Balli is a CEA Saclay Physicist who has been working in the ATLAS experiment for about 15 years. His current topics of study are precision electroweak Standard Model measurements and the performance of Jets and Missing transverse Momentum. He’s been co-coordinating the Jet/ETmiss group of ATLAS since September 2023.

Alan Barr

Alessandra Cappati

Alessandra Cappati, postdoc at Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium. They work for the CMS Collaboration at the CERN Large Hadron Collider. They focus their interest on the Higgs sector of the standard model, in particular studying the double Higgs boson production. They also worked on the measurement of the Higgs boson properties and on the search for a heavy resonance. They are interested in effective field theory interpretations of the results and the design of machine learning algorithms for physics.

Vitor Cardoso

Vitor Cardoso is a Bohr Professor and Director of the Center of Gravity at the Niels Bohr Institute, and IST Distinguished Professor at Instituto Superior Técnico. His research interests are mainly focused on strong-gravity problems, with implications for gravitational-wave and black-hole physics. He pioneered black hole spectroscopy, and is co-author of the books “The eclipse of time” and “Superradiance” and of over 300 scientific papers. He edited the book “The Birth of an Idea” and has established regular collaborations with artists throughout his career. His research was recognized by the European Research Council, with three prestigious ERC Grants. He was a Research Fellow at CERN and Perimeter Institute, and a Van der Waals Professorial Chair at Amsterdam. He Chaired the IST Physics Department in 2020-2021 and the European COST Action GWverse from 2017-2021, in a network of over 500 scientists. He is a member of the Lisbon Academy of Sciences, and the 2023 ULisboa Award, the highest honour conferred by the University of Lisbon, for his “extraordinary contributions to theoretical physics and for scientific progress on a global scale.” He was awarded the “Ordem de Sant’Iago da Espada” presidential title, for scientific achievements.

Mauro Chiesa

My research activity is focused on particle physics phenomenology at colliders. In particular, I work on high-precision calculations and their implementation in Monte Carlo event generators like POWHEG. My research interests span from higher-order electroweak and QCD corrections, to electroweak physics and high-precision tests of the Standard Model.

Christine Darve, ESS

Christine Darve is a French engineering scientist at the European Spallation Source (ESS), specializing in cryogenic systems for superconducting magnets and RF cavities. She is also deeply engaged in large-scale scientific collaboration and science communication. She earned her Ph.D. in Superfluid Helium from Northwestern University, and holds a Diplôme d’Ingénieur in Thermo-Mechanics of Systems and Materials from UTBM, France. Christine has contributed to the design and operation of major particle accelerators at at CERN and FNAL. She currently chairs the IUPAP Working Group on Accelerator Science (WG14), co-founded the African School of Fundamental Physics and Applications (ASP), and is a former chair of the APS Forum on International Physics (FIP). She leads the “Physics Matters” colloquium series and has developed educational programs, including MOOCs such as NPAP and AYT. An APS Fellow since 2016, she received the CERN Alumni Directorate Award in 2024 for her efforts in advancing international collaboration in physics.

Willem Elbers

Willem Elbers is a cosmologist at the Institute for Computational Cosmology at Durham University in the UK. The focus of his research is on the large-scale structure of the Universe and its use as a probe of neutrino physics. He previously studied at the universities of Groningen and Cambridge and obtained his PhD from Durham in 2023. He is an active member of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) collaboration, where he currently serves as co-lead of the Cosmological Parameter Estimation working group.

Justin Evans

Eva Gersabeck

I obtained my bachelor and master degrees from the Sofia University, Bulgaria, where I later, in 2010, did my PhD on kaon physics with the NA48/2 experiment at CERN. After this, I joined INFN Perugia, Italy, on a fellowship for non-italian citizens to work on the kaon experiment NA62. In 2011, I joined the Heidelberg University, Germany, and the LHCb collaboration at CERN, where I started working on CP violation and mixing studies with beauty and charm mesons, on multi-body decays and on the LHCb Outer tracker. I continued working on beauty and charm physics in 2017 when I joined the University of Manchester as a Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin fellow, and I also joined the BESIII experiment in China to work on charm physics. In 2019, I was offered a permanent position with the University of Manchester, and in 2022, I was promoted to Senior Lecturer. In 2025, I moved to a permanent researcher position at the University of Freiburg, Germany, where my main focus is physics analysis with the LHCb experiment and the LHCb SciFi tracker performance and monitoring coordination.

Admir Greljo

Admir Greljo studied theoretical physics at the University of Sarajevo. He completed his doctoral research at the Jozef Stefan Institute and obtained a Ph.D. from the University of Ljubljana in 2014. His postdoctoral pursuits led him to the University of Zurich (2014-2017) and Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz (2017-2018). His advancements in theoretical particle physics secured him a senior research fellow position at CERN (2018-2020). Subsequently, he received an SNSF Eccellenza professorial fellowship at the University of Bern, where he established a junior research group (2020-2023). As of 2023, Dr. Greljo holds a tenure-track assistant professorship in theoretical particle physics and cosmology at the University of Basel.

Ke Han

Neutrnoless double beta decay has been at the forefront of neutrino physics for the last few dacades. The experimental observation of such a process would confirm the Majorana nature of the neutrinos and imply the violation of lepton number conservation. In this talk, I will give an overview of recent progress with special focus on the latest developments since the last WIN conference.

Christoph Lehner

Positions:

2019 - now Professor, University of Regensburg
2017 - 2022 Scientist, BNL (tenured 2018)
2015 - 2017 Associate Scientist, BNL
2013 - 2015 Assistant Scientist, BNL
2010 - 2013 RIKEN FPR fellowship, BNL
2010 PhD, University of Regensburg

Honors:

2016 DOE Early Career Award
2012 Ken Wilson Lattice Award

Community Service:

2018 - 2019 Member of USQCD Executive Committee
2016 - now Co-chair of Steering Committee of the "Theory Initiative for the muon g-2"

Mark Messier

Mark Messier is a James H. Rudy and Distinguished Professor at Indiana University. He completed his BS at MIT and his PhD at Boston University working on the Super-Kamiokande experiment. Messier has played pivotal roles in the development of the Fermilab neutrino program as a member of the MINOS, MIPP, NOvA, and DUNE experiments, serving as NOvA co-spokesperson from 2006-2018. Messier is a Fellow of the APS and a recipient of the Breakthrough Prize as a member of the Super-Kamiokande collaboration.

Joe Price

I am a lecturer at the University of Liverpool, and am currently a member of the g-2 and Mu2e experiments, based at Fermilab in USA, and the muEDM experiment at PSI. The g-2 experiment has been taking data since 2018, and is measuring the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon to unprecedented precision. I was part of the Liverpool team that built the tracking detectors for g-2, which were used to monitor the muons as they orbited the storage ring, and increased the precision at which g-2 can be measured. I tested, installed and commissioned the detectors whilst at Fermilab, and wrote the tracking algorithms used in the analysis

Ruben Sakyan

I am a Professor of Experimental Particle Physics at UCL, specialising in neutrino physics. My work focuses on neutrinoless double beta decay, currently on the LEGEND experiment, and on developing ultra-low background detectors for rare event searches. I also lead the QTNM consortium, part of the UK’s Quantum Technologies for Fundamental Physics programme, which applies quantum sensing to measure the absolute neutrino mass.

Filippo Sala

Physicist at the University of Bologna, Italy, performing research in the fields of particle and astroparticle physics and cosmology. His work aims at understanding mysteries about the universe, like its early history and the nature of dark matter. His approach is driven by the necessity to test ideas with observations, with a focus on those at neutrino and gravitational wave detectors, telescopes and colliders.

Kate Shaw

Dr Kate Shaw is an experimental particle physicist working on the ATLAS experiment at CERN researching the top quark and working on luminosity, and the DUNE experiment at Fermilab studying neutrinos. Shaw is passionate about physics outreach, and inclusion and diversity in science and works internationally to promote physics throughout the Global South. Shaw is currently the Education and Outreach Chair for the DUNE experiment, and was the ATLAS Outreach Coordinator for 5 years, and the ATLAS Open Data Convener for 10 years, along with being on the inclusion and diversity committee for 2 years. Shaw founded and co-directs the ICTP Physics Without Frontiers programme, which works to build the next generation of scientists in the Global South working with over 60 countries worldwide. She won the European Physical Society Outreach Prize in 2015, the Sussex Better World Award in 2021, and The Royal Society Research Culture Award in 2024 for her work.

Matthew Wing

Matthew Wing has worked in various areas of particle physics but has had a main focus over the last decade or so in developing new particle acceleration techniques, especially plasma wakefield acceleration. He is an active member of the AWAKE and FLASHForward collaborations at CERN and DESY which, respectively, investigate proton- and electron-driven modes of plasma wakefield acceleration. The aim of both of these projects is to significantly reduce the size of future particle accelerators through higher accelerating gradients.

Tevong You

Tevong You is an Assistant Professor at King's College London in the Theoretical Particle Physics and Cosmology group. He is a theorist with research interests in particle phenomenology at the intersection of experiment, observation, and theory.