Early Research & Internships
Before starting my PhD, I had the opportunity to work on several research projects during my Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees at the Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB).
Master’s Thesis
Constraints from Loop Quantum Gravity and the Memory Burden Effect in Primordial Black Hole Cosmologies Supervisors: Dr. Francesca Vidotto & Dr. Sébastien Clesse Western University (CA) & ULB (BE) — 2024–2025
For my Master’s thesis, I investigated how Loop Quantum Gravity and the Memory Burden effect suppress Hawking evaporation, allowing light Primordial Black Holes to stabilize into relics that could be viable dark matter candidates. This work laid the foundation for my current PhD research, focusing on modeling PBH remnants and deriving observational constraints from cosmological backgrounds.
Thesis
CERN Summer Internship
Graph Neural Networks for VBF Tagging Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) Experiment, CERN, Geneva — Summer 2024
During the CERN Summer Student Programme, I worked within the CMS collaboration. My project focused on developing and implementing Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) to improve Vector Boson Fusion (VBF) tagging. I specifically analyzed the algorithm’s stability and performance for the Higgs to invisible decay channel (\(H \rightarrow \mathrm{invisible}\)).
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Undergraduate Research & Lab Reports
During my curriculum, I completed several hands-on projects and short internships in both experimental high-energy physics and formal theory: