Postdoctoral researcher in particle physics and machine learning
I am a postdoctoral researcher in particle physics and machine learning at the Centre for Cosmology, Particle Physics and Phenomenology in Louvain-la-Neuve. The main focus of my research is accelerating event generation for the High-Luminosity LHC and beyond using generative networks. In particular, the MadNIS project aims to make sampling hard-scattering events in MadGraph faster using neural importance sampling. Furthermore, I am interested in ML-based methods to extract more information from LHC data. This includes unfolding with generative networks, simulation-based inference, and combining machine-learned detector effects with theory knowledge in the matrix element method.
Centre for Cosmology, Particle Physics and Phenomenology
UCLouvain
Advisor: Tilman Plehn
Heidelberg University
Advisor: Tilman Plehn
Heidelberg University
Advisor: Tilman Plehn
Heidelberg University
G. Aad et al.
arXiv:2412.04370
T. Heimel, T. Plehn, N. Schmal
arXiv:2411.00942
T. Heimel, O. Mattelaer, T. Plehn, R. Winterhalder
arXiv:2408.01486,
SciPost Phys. 18, 017 (2025)
N. Huetsch, J. Villadamigo, A. Shmakov, S. Diefenbacher, V. Mikuni, T. Heimel et al.
arXiv:2404.18807,
SciPost Phys. 18, 070 (2025)
T. Heimel, N. Huetsch, F. Maltoni, O. Mattelaer, T. Plehn, R. Winterhalder
arXiv:2311.01548,
SciPost Phys. 17, 023 (2024)
T. Heimel, N. Huetsch, R. Winterhalder, T. Plehn, A. Butter
arXiv:2310.07752,
SciPost Phys. 17, 129 (2024)
J. Ackerschott, R. Barman, D. Gonçalves, T. Heimel, T. Plehn
arXiv:2308.00027,
SciPost Phys. 17, 001 (2024)
R. Das, L. Favaro, T. Heimel, C. Krause, T. Plehn, D. Shih
arXiv:2305.16774,
SciPost Phys. 16, 031 (2024)
T. Heimel, R. Winterhalder, A. Butter, J. Isaacson, C. Krause, F. Maltoni et al.
arXiv:2212.06172,
SciPost Phys. 15, 141 (2023)
T. Plehn, A. Butter, B. Dillon, T. Heimel, C. Krause, R. Winterhalder
arXiv:2211.01421
A. Butter, T. Heimel, T. Martini, S. Peitzsch, T. Plehn
arXiv:2210.00019,
SciPost Phys. 15, 094 (2023)
A. Butter et al.
arXiv:2203.07460,
SciPost Phys. 14, 079 (2023)
A. Butter, T. Heimel, S. Hummerich, T. Krebs, T. Plehn, A. Rousselot et al.
arXiv:2110.13632,
SciPost Phys. 14, 078 (2023)
S. Bieringer, A. Butter, T. Heimel, S. Höche, U. Köthe, T. Plehn et al.
arXiv:2012.09873,
SciPost Phys. 10, 126 (2021)
T. Heimel, G. Kasieczka, T. Plehn, J. Thompson
arXiv:1808.08979,
SciPost Phys. 6, 030 (2019)
theo.heimel@uclouvain.be
UCLouvain, CP3
Chemin du Cyclotron, 2 bte L07.01.05
1348 Louvain-la-Neuve
Belgium