STARRY NIGHT

Current members


PhD Candidates




Dr. Tetiana Moskalets

Tetiana received her PhD from University Paris-Saclay (2020) and

worked in our Emmy-Noether group at the University of Freiburg from 2020 until 2023. She then joined the Southern Methodist University as a Postdoctoral Research associate. She is currently co-convening the Dibosons and Multileptons subgroup in ATLAS.

Past members


Postdoctoral Research Associates



Iakovos Tsouros

Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

Topic:  Searches for BSM Higgs bosons, upgrade of ATLAS muon spectrometer for HL-LHC

BSc students

Sofia Zioga

Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

Topic:  Investigation of unexplored signatures in the 2HDMa model

Interns

Lara Steimle

MSc internship (Nov 2023 - Mar 2024)

Home institute: University of Freiburg

Topic: Investigation of ATLAS sensitivity to unexplored final states in 2HDM

Navya Jose

MSc internship (Sep-Dec 2023)

Home institute: University of Freiburg

Topic: Higher-order corrections for searches for dark matter produced in tW final states

Spyros Thomopoulos

BSc internship June-July 2023

Home institute: National Technical University of Athens

Topic: Generation of bbWW process at NLO with MG5aMC@NLO

Vyron Arvanitis

BSc internship May-June 2023

Home institute: National Kapodistrian University of Athens

Topic: Impact of tW-tt interference uncertainties on A→ZH search

Sofia Zioga

BSc internship March - May 2024

Home institute: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

Topic: Investigation of ATLAS sensitivity to unexplored final states in 2HDM

Ilia Kalaitzidou

Ilia graduated from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and performed her PhD thesis in our Emmy-Noether group at the University of Freiburg from 2021 to 2024, working on searches for electroweak baryogenesis and dark matter.

After obtaining her thesis she joined the Universite Libre des Bruxelles as a post-doctoral research associate. Her thesis can be found here.

Interns

Foteini Stoikou

Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

Topic: Investigation of the sensitivity of the W+MET signature in the 2HDMa model

BSc students

Marios Antoniadis

BSc thesis (Sep 2025 - Jun 2026)

Home institute: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

Topic: Development of an experimental setup for the electrical characterisation of silicon sensors

PhD candidates

Roman Kuesters

Roman graduated from the University of Bonn and performed his PhD thesis in our Emmy-Noether group at the University of Freiburg from 2021 to 2026, working on searches for electroweak baryogenesis and the improvement of b-tagging algorithms at high energies.