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Alexander Puck Neuwirth’s CV
- Email: alexander.neuwirth@unimib.it
- Location: Milan, Italy
- Website: alexander-neuwirth.com
- ORCID: 0000-0002-2484-1328
- GitHub: APN-Pucky
- GitLab: APN-Pucky
- Google Scholar: qdaEI4YAAAAJ
Education
University of Münster
Münster, Germany
2024
PhD in Theoretical Physics
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Thesis: “Precision Computations for Photons, Jets and BSM-Particles at the LHC”
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Advisors: Prof. Dr. Michael Klasen, Prof. Dr. Christian Klein-Bösing
Experience
Research Fellow, Department of Physics “Giuseppe Occhialini”
Milan, Italy
2024 – present
University of Milano-Bicocca
- Precision predictions for photon production, electroweak corrections and Monte Carlo event generators
Professore a contratto, Laboratorio di Informatica I (academic year 2024/2025)
Milan, Italy
2024 – 2025
University of Milano-Bicocca
- Taught in English; course materials prepared in Italian
Publications
Photon Fragmentation Functions in LHAPDF: Existing Sets and a Pythia-Based Extraction
Aug 2026
Alexander Puck Neuwirth
arxiv.org/abs/2608.15944 (arXiv preprint)
pylhe: A Lightweight Python Interface to Les Houches Event Files
July 2026
Alexander Puck Neuwirth, Matthew Feickert, Lukas Heinrich, Eduardo Rodrigues
10.21105/joss.11128 (Journal of Open Source Software, 11(126), 11128)
Conversion of Photons to Dileptons in the Kroll-Wada and Parton Shower Approaches
June 2025
Tomáš Ježo, Michael Klasen, Alexander Puck Neuwirth
10.1007/JHEP03(2026)024 (JHEP 03 (2026) 024)
Prompt Photon Production with Two Jets in POWHEG
Sept 2024
Tomáš Ježo, Michael Klasen, Alexander Puck Neuwirth
10.1007/JHEP02(2025)125 (JHEP 02 (2025) 125)
Combination and Reinterpretation of LHC SUSY Searches
Mar 2024
Alexander Feike, Juri Fiaschi, Benjamin Fuks, Michael Klasen, Alexander Puck Neuwirth
10.1007/JHEP07(2024)122 (JHEP 07 (2024) 122)
Di-Electron Production at the LHC: Unravelling Virtual-Photon and Heavy-Flavour Contributions
Jan 2024
Anton Andronic, Tomáš Ježo, Michael Klasen, Christian Klein-Bösing, Alexander Puck Neuwirth
10.1007/JHEP05(2024)222 (JHEP 05 (2024) 222)
Electroweak Superpartner Production at 13.6 TeV with Resummino
Apr 2023
J. Fiaschi, B. Fuks, M. Klasen, A. Neuwirth
10.1140/epjc/s10052-023-11888-y (Eur. Phys. J. C 83, 707)
Soft Gluon Resummation for Associated Squark-Electroweakino Production at the LHC
Feb 2022
J. Fiaschi, B. Fuks, M. Klasen, A. Neuwirth
10.1007/JHEP06(2022)130 (JHEP 06 (2022) 130)
Associated Squark-Electroweakino Production with NLO+NLL Precision
May 2022
Juri Fiaschi, Benjamin Fuks, Michael Klasen, Alexander Neuwirth
arxiv.org/abs/2205.07298 (Proceedings, 56th Rencontres de Moriond (QCD session))
Open Source
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pylhe — core maintainer; lightweight Python interface to Les Houches Event files (Scikit-HEP)
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LHEUTILS — author; command-line utilities for LHE event processing
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LHAPDF — code contributor to the standard LHC parton-distribution-function library
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HepMC, Rivet, YODA — contributor to the shared Monte Carlo event-record and analysis toolchain
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Gentoo Linux — developer, maintaining scientific packages in the gentoo-sci overlay
Skills
Programming: C/C++, Fortran, Python, Rust, CUDA, Bash
HEP software: POWHEG-BOX(-RES), PYTHIA 8, GENEVA, Rivet, YODA, FastJet, HepMC, LHAPDF, OpenLoops, RECOLA, MadGraph
Scientific computing: Monte Carlo integration and event generation, adaptive/rejection sampling, HPC and Slurm cluster workflows, reproducible packaging and CI