• B.Sc. Finn Feuerstake on interference effects in di-Higgs production
• B.Sc. Althea Cappelli (jointly supervised with Prof. Dr. Klemens Hammerer) on axion and Gravitational Wave searches with cavities
• B.Sc. Prithvi Timalsina on Electric Dipole Moments in an Effective Field Theory approach
• B.Sc. Apostolos Tsabodimos on CP violation for electroweak baryogenesis
• B.Sc. Vincent Riechers on sensitivity to CP violation in Higgs couplings at the FCC-ee

• This November has been intense: on 21.11.2023, I gave my inaugural lecture (Antrittsvorlesung) in the colloquium of the Department of Mathematics and Physics. Thanks to the department for also inviting the junior professors to give such a lecture.
• 14.11.2023: I had the pleasure to speak at the KinderUni opening, together with our Minister of Science and Culture of Lower Saxony, Falko Mohrs, and three actors. See the "Outreach" section for details.
• 16.10.2023: I thank the German Science Foundation (DFG) for the wonderful award ceremony of the Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Prize, and of course for the big prize. Many thanks to the committee for going through 171 nominations and selecting 9 other young scientists and me, and in particular to Prof. Holger Gies for this kind laudatio (also as video/photo collage). You can find impressions from the ceremony on here, including the video and photos. It was very nice to meet also the other laureates and here about their impressive research.
• 29.09.2023: Apostolos Tsabodimos joined our group for a master thesis on electroweak baryogenesis. Vincent Riechers is going to join us soon for a master project on Higgs physics at the FCC. Welcome to both!
• 28.08.2023: Our work on atomic techniques for the detection of high-frequency gravitational waves in collaboration with Valerie Domcke, Joachim Kopp and Torsten Bringmann at CERN has been accepted as a Letter in PRD. The astrophysics blog 'astrobites' highlighted our work paper of the day.
• 27.06.2023: I am delighted to announce that the DFG Hauptausschuss decided to award this year's Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Prize to me, the highest German award for outstanding early career researchers (like junior professors or young investigator group leaders) who have established their independent research profile, but do not have a permanent position. The other 9 price recipients of this year come e.g. from the fields of history, cryptography, and physical chemistry, and I look forward to meeting them at the award ceremony in Berlin in October. I thank the DFG for the high recognition of my work and the LUH for nominating me! For more information, see the posts on Twitter by the DFG and the LUH, and the press statement by the LUH and the Ministry of Science and Education of Lower Saxony here and by the city of Hannover here.
• 29.05. - 03.06.2023: 17 master students from LUH will come to CERN for an intense 1-week block lecture on Particle Physics beyond the Standard Model, with a program full of lectures, exercise sessions and visits of several CERN experiments including the ATLAS control room, the Antimatter Decelerator and the CERN Accelerator Control Center. For impressions from the BSM block lecture at CERN last year, please see the Teaching section.
• 17.04.2023: Prithvi Timalsina started his project on Electric Dipole Moments as a low-energy precision test of CP violation beyond the Standard Model in an Effective Field Theory framework. Welcome to the group!
• 28.03.2023: Marc Hannig completed his successful bachelor thesis and won a place in the competitive DESY summer student program, congratulations!
• news from the winter and spring: Agnese, Jan and Marco won scholarships of the LUH Graduate Academy for a research stay abroad or trips to conferences. Congratulations!
• 21.09. - 05.12.2022: This fall also included exciting outreach events. It was a big honor for me to give the final lecture in the series "7 adventures" on the 7 millenium problems of mathematics. My lecture on the physics view on "Young Mills theories: existence and mass gap" was hosted by the Junge Akademie and took place in the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of the Sciences and Humanities - what a nice location! For the new CERN exhibition "Science Gateway", I was filmed to explain concepts like the vacuum and black holes in German. Another filming will be about "Exploring the Unknown". More details are available in the Outreach section below.
• 1.-4.11.2022: The CERN Quantum Technology Initiative moved a big step forward with our International Conference on Quantum Technologies for High-Energy Physics (QT4HEP) in CERN's main auditorium which attracted 250 participants from leading institutes of particle physics, quantum computing and quantum sensing, as well as from industry. Several participants from LUH and PTB also gave a talk. 
• 1.11.2022: wonderful to welcome Fiona and Agnese to CERN and have at least a part of the group around for in-person interactions! Agnese will stay for the fall and Fiona until next summer before the whole group will be located in Hannover and Braunschweig.
• 26.09. - 29.11.2022: The fall was full of trips to interactive workshops. In September, I gave a talk at the Trapped Charged Particles (TCP2022) Conference in Glashütten, and participated as a member of the organizing committee in the DESY Theory Workshop focused on "Higgs, Flavor and Beyond". In October, it was great to see many experts of quantum sensing from around the world in Hannover at the conference on ”Quantum sensors and tests of new physics” (QSNP). Fiona and Jan presented posters there and I gave a talk. In November, I gave talks at the ”Quantum Systems in Extreme Conditions“ (QSEC2022) conference in Bingen, the CERN Theory retreat in Les Houches, and at the LHC Higgs Working Group workshop at CERN. At the simultaneous Helmholtz Alliance Workshop "Physics at the Terascale", Marco presented our first results of a Machine Learning-based approach to enhance the sensitivity of the LHC to the CP structure in the effective Higgs-gluon coupling.
• 10.10.2022: With the start of the fall semester, also my Quantum Field Theory lecture started. So many students participate such that we had to bring in more chairs into the lecture room. 
• Oct 2022: The Leibniz University Hannover nominated me for the Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Award for outstanding young scientists with an independent research profile who are on a fixed-term position. Thank you very much for the nomination! Now I hope to pass the selection process by the DFG.
• 01.10.2022: Welcome to Marc Hannig as the first bachelor student of the group! He will work on the effective Higgs-gluon-gluon interaction via ggF -> H+2jets and how to enhance the sensitivity to the CP structure of this interaction in the kinematic region where the signal process of gluon fusion looks like  the background process of vector boson fusion.
• 15.09.2022: Althea Cappelli will work on a master thesis on particle physics and quantum information theory jointly supervised by Prof. Tobias Osborne and me, starting in the winter term. Welcome in the group!
• 16.08.2022 Finn Feuerstake and Marc Hannig are joining our group for their master and bachelor theses, respectively, starting in the winter semester. Welcome to the team!
• 8.-12.8.2022: It was a a huge pleasure to welcome 20 students from LUH and 2 external participants to CERN for a lively week of a compact block lecture on Particle Physics Beyond the Standard Model - including lectures, exercises, a guided tour and a hands-on workshop where we built our own cloud chambers!
• In August 2022, I was appointed as the Theory Coordinator of the CERN Quantum Technology Initiative (QTI) to strengthen the collaboration in quantum sensing, computing and theory  between CERN as a European hub and institutes in its member states (including Germany and therefore the LUH & PTB), and to initiate new scientific collaborations. I look forward to the intense exchange of ideas and contributing to this European network. This new task extends my stay at CERN such that I will move to Hannover in the summer of 2023.
• 12.07.2022: It was a pleasure to join the lunch meeting organized by the LUH Graduate Academy on combining working in academia and having a family, to share my own experiences and hear from others.
• 15.-17.06.2022: Wonderful to meet the Higgs & EFT community in person at the HEFT2022 conference in Granada, Spain. I gave a talk on electroweak baryogenesis in SMEFT. It was my first flight after over a year and will remain my only flight this year. Apart from that, I travel by train, also long distances, and work in the train.
• 09.-13.05.2022: It was exciting to attend the Heraeus Seminar at Bad Honnef on High-precision measurements and searches for New Physics where Jan presented a poster and I gave a talk. How nice to meet the community in person after a long time of online meetings.
• 24.03.2022 Marco presented our work at the DPG spring meeting of particle physics.
• 17.03.2022: Jan presented his paper on parity violation with partially stripped ions at the DPG spring meeting of atomic physics.
• 16.03.2022: I was glad to join for the first time the DPG spring meeting (even if online) of the atomic section by giving an invited talk on Searching for physics beyond the Standard Model with isotope shift spectroscopy.
• 15.03.2022: Agnese Mariotti had her first day of work as a PhD student at LUH. Benvenuta! She graduated from Università Roma Tre with a master thesis on the Dark Matter relic density in gravitational portal scenarios. Her PhD position is funded by a generous donation from the ITP alumnus Dr. Marco Krohn to the LUH-ITP. Agnese won this position through the ITP-wide selection procedure. Congratulations!
• 25.02.2022: Marco's and my paper in collaboration with colleagues from DESY, UChicago, Madrid and Paris appeared on the arXiv: Constraining the CP structure of Higgs-fermion couplings
  with a global LHC fit, the electron EDM and baryogenesis. 
• 02.02.2022: On his second day of work, Jan's paper on Parity-Violation Studies with Partially Stripped Ions got published. Congratulations!
• 01.02.2022: Jan Richter and Marco Menen had their first working day as PhD students at the FPM (Institut für Fundamentale Physik für Metrologie) at PTB. Congratulations and welcome to the team! Jan graduated from TU Braunschweig with a master thesis at PTB on parity violation in hydrogen-like ions. Marco graduated from Uni Köln with a master thesis at Uni Bonn on the CP structure of the Higgs-fermion couplings.
• 20.01.2022: Few days before the actual start of his contract, Marco presented our work on CP violation in Yukawa couplings in the LHC Higgs cross section CP working group meeting.
• 06.01.2022: Fiona Kirk, currently PhD student at PSI/Zurich, accepted a postdoc position in our group. Looking forward to welcoming you in the fall!
• 23.11.2022: At the 14th Annual Meeting of the Helmholtz Alliance “Physics at the Terascale”, I gave a talk on constraining CP violation in the Higgs Yukawa couplings.

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