Research

My work is in precision predictions for high-energy particle collisions: combining fixed-order QCD and electroweak calculations with parton-shower Monte Carlo event generators, with an emphasis on real and virtual photon production as probes of the quark-gluon plasma and of QCD factorization more broadly.

• Photon Fragmentation Functions

  Extracting effective parton-to-photon fragmentation functions from PYTHIA and distributing them as LHAPDF grids.

• Low-Mass Dileptons & Virtual Photons

  Internal conversion of real and virtual photons into lepton pairs, from the Kroll-Wada formula to parton-shower descriptions.

• Precision Photon+Jet Production

  NLO QCD predictions for prompt photons with jets, matched to parton showers via POWHEG and MiNLO.

• NNLO QCD + NLO EW Drell-Yan

  Combining NNLO QCD with NLO electroweak corrections for Drell-Yan lepton pairs in the GENEVA framework.

• Numerical Methods for Event Generators

  Adaptive and rejection sampling, Sudakov-factor numerics, and scientific-computing aspects of Monte Carlo generation.

See also the full publication list, which includes earlier work on supersymmetric particle production and resummation carried out during my doctoral studies.