# Alexander Puck Neuwirth's CV

- Email: [alexander.neuwirth@unimib.it](mailto:alexander.neuwirth@unimib.it)
- Location: Milan, Italy
- Website: [alexander-neuwirth.com](https://alexander-neuwirth.com/)
- ORCID: [0000-0002-2484-1328](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2484-1328)
- GitHub: [APN-Pucky](https://github.com/APN-Pucky)
- GitLab: [APN-Pucky](https://gitlab.com/APN-Pucky)
- Google Scholar: [qdaEI4YAAAAJ](https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=qdaEI4YAAAAJ)


# Education
## **University of Münster**
*Münster, Germany*


*2024*

*PhD* *in* *Theoretical Physics*

- Thesis: "Precision Computations for Photons, Jets and BSM-Particles at the LHC"

- 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](https://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](https://doi.org/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](https://doi.org/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](https://doi.org/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](https://doi.org/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](https://doi.org/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](https://doi.org/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](https://doi.org/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](https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.07298) (Proceedings, 56th Rencontres de Moriond (QCD session))



# Open Source
- **pylhe** — core maintainer; lightweight Python interface to Les Houches Event files (Scikit-HEP)

- **LHEUTILS** — author; command-line utilities for LHE event processing

- **LHAPDF** — code contributor to the standard LHC parton-distribution-function library

- **HepMC, Rivet, YODA** — contributor to the shared Monte Carlo event-record and analysis toolchain

- **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