Welcome to my homepage! I am a theoretical physicist studying quantum computing, focusing on quantum algorithms and in particular quantum artifical intelligence, to solve real-world problems. I am currently focusing mainly on quantum for healthcare and life sciences. I also have nearly 15 years of experience in investigating elementary particles as a theoretical particle physicist. I am a Quantum Algorithms Researcher at QuantumBasel and since December 2024 an associate Staff Researcher at the Center for Quantum Computing and Quantum Coherence (QC2) at the University of Basel.

My main research and project delivery focus at QuantumBasel is the study and development of quantum algorithms to solve real-world problems in healthcare and life sciences, logistics, manufacturing, and financial services. I am in particular actively studying quantum generative models such as quantum GANs in the context of data augmentation or for drug discovery. I am also interested in multiple instance learning to better detect circular rare cells, quantum reservoir computing for time series forecasting, quantum optimization algorithms (QAOA and alike) and quantum annealing, as well as the quantum simulation of Nature (for e.g. NMR spectroscopy).

My main research interests in particle physics have been higher-order QCD calculations (precision calculations) in Higgs and weak boson physics at hadron colliders. I have also investigated neutrino mass models, supersymmetric theories, and effective field theories. I am also one of the developers of the codes NMSSMCALC and NMSSMCALCEW which are designed for the study of the Higgs boson masses and decays in the framework of the Next-to-Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model (NMSSM), and the developer of the VBF Higgs pair production code in the VBFNLO collaboration. I have been contributing to the POWHEG-BOX and several of my programs can be found on the webpage of the POWHEG-BOX project. My latest computer program for particle physics is n3loxs, which can calculate several cross sections at hadron collider at the current highest accuracy in QCD, namely next-to-next-to-next-to-leading order. The program is written in C++ and Python.


Before joining QuantumBasel and then the University of Basel, I was a Senior Research Fellow (and later on an external collaborator) at the Theory Department at CERN, from 2019 to 2023, where I started to investigate quantum computing as part of first team in the Department joining the CERN Quantum Technology Initiative. I also contributed to scientific content writing for the Communication Department. Before joining CERN, I spent five years from 2014 to 2019 as a senior postdoctoral researcher in the group of Prof.  Dr.   Barbara   Jäger at the Institut für Theoretische Physik (ITP) in the University of Tübingen (Germany) and three years at the ITP in the Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (Germany) as a postdoctoral researcher in the group of Prof.  Dr.   Margarete   Mühlleitner from 2011 to 2014. I got my PhD in France in 2011 at the Laboratoire de Physique Théorique in the University of Paris Sud (Orsay) under the supervision of Dr.   Abdelhak   Djouadi. Before my PhD I got my Master in theoretical physics at the École Normale Supérieure de Paris and spent my undergrad years at the École Normale Supérieure de Paris-Saclay which I entered after a very competitive exam which I passed, granting me a fellowship for four years as a civil servant.

On this website you will find mostly informations about my current work. One part of the website is dedicated to some miscellaneous, mostly in French, that I did up to my Master. By the way the picture you can see above was taken in the Russian Caucasus range in 2016 and is a view over the Elbrus twin summit. The west summit is 5642m high, making it the highest peak in Europe. After particle physics and quantum computing, hiking/alpinism is my second passion in life!