Mads Hansen Baattrup

DESY, CMS Group
Notkestraße 85 (Building 01b)
22607 Hamburg
Room: O2.214

Top Quark Reconstruction with Generative Models for Searches for Heavy Higgs Bosons and Top-Antitop Quark Bound States with the CMS Experiment
Supervisors:  Prof. Christian Schwanenberger (DESY, UHH), Dr. Alexander Grohsjean (UHH), Prof. Peer Stelldinger (HAW)

Mads has a Master’s in Physics from Aarhus University in Denmark, where he specialized in experimental nuclear physics with a strong focus on statistical methods and data analysis. He has always been curious about particle physics - what the world is composed of at the most fundamental level - and in recent years, he has become increasingly interested in how modern data science and machine learning can help us make unprecedented discoveries.
After finishing his studies in 2023, he seized the opportunity to travel overland from Denmark to Shanghai, an adventure that gave him space to explore and reflect before starting his PhD. He also worked as a quantitative analyst, using data and modeling to solve complex problems in the energy sector.
Now based at DESY in Hamburg, he is part of a research team (CMS group) investigating unusual signals seen in data from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN. These signals could point to entirely new particles or forces in nature. To explore this, he uses cutting-edge machine learning methods to help reconstruct extremely short-lived particles called top quarks. By doing this more precisely, they hope to find out whether these signals are hints of new physics... or just random fluctuations.