Welcome
Welcome to my home page.
I am a research professor in elementary particle physics at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, working at the Interuniversity Institute for High Energies - IIHE (ULB-VUB).
My research interests include the re-discovery of the Standard Model of Particle Physics using the Large Hadron Collider. Once we can see what we understand, I intend to search for signs of new physics, like for example Super-Symmetry (SUSY). I work in the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) collaboration, where I am active in top quark physics and the search for new particles that decay to top quarks.
As I believe it is important to explain how interesting particle physics is, I am a School Ambassador for the European Union's SET-ROUTES program and an official CERN guide.
In my free time I enjoy travelling, going out, reading, drawing, doing sports (field hockey and running for beer), live music (particularly alternative rock) and playing computer games.
Compact Muon Solenoid
The Homepage of the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) collaboration, a team of about 2200 scientists that I work with.
IIHE
We are trying to answer questions like: how did the universe evolve? What is the nature of space and time? What, really, is mass?