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Currently working at CERN, Organisation européenne pour la recherche nucléaire.

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Khawla Jaffel

Work Experience

Postdoc in Particle Physics

2025–Present
CERN - The European Organization for Nuclear Research
Keemilise ja Bioloogilise Füüsika Instituut

Postdoc in Particle Physics

2023–2025
CERN - The European Organization for Nuclear Research
University of Science and Technology of China

Education

Ph.D. in Particle Physics

2019–2023
UCLouvain, Belgium
Advisor: Prof. Christophe Delaere
Dissertation: Search for 2HDM neutral Higgs bosons through ℓ⁺ℓ⁻bb at CMS (Run 2 data).

M.Sc. in Condensed Matter Physics

2015–2017
Université de Tunis El Manar, Tunis
Thesis: Modélisation des performances des structures lasers à base des chalcogénures (MoS2/WSe2).

B.Sc. in Physics and Chemistry

2012–2015
Université de Tunis El Manar, Tunis

Courses, Workshops & Conferences

  • The 19th Workshop of the LHC Higgs Working Group 28–30 Nov 2022, CERN (remote).
  • Georges Lemaˆıtre Chair lecture series: Tracy Slatyer on ”New probes of dark matter physics in astrophysics and cosmology”, 16-20 May 2022, UCLouvain (Belgium).
  • 2022 Higgs workshop, 28-30 Mar 2022, CERN (remote).
  • Third Intensive Course on Statistics for HEP. 7 janvier 2022 to 18 f ́evrier 2022, UCLouvain-CP3 (Belgium).
  • Higgs 2021 (virtual), 18-22 Oct 2021.
  • Taming the accuracy of event generators (Part 2), 23–27 Aug 2021, CERN (remote).
  • CMS management training workshop (virtual), 17 June 2021.
  • LHC Soft skills workshop: Interview skills for academia (virtual), 10 March 2021.
  • Fast Machine Learning for Science Workshop, 30 November 2020 to 3 December 2020, Southern Methodist University US, (remote).
  • CMS Monte Carlo and Physics Tools Tutorials 30 Oct 2020-30 Jun 2021, CERN (remote).
  • Higgs 2020 (virtual), 26–30 Oct 2020.
  • 4th Inter-experiment Machine Learning Workshop (virtual), 19–23 Oct 2020.
  • FIPs 2020 Feebly Interacting Particles (virtual), 31 August 2020 to 4 September 2020.
  • PyHEP 2020 (virtual) Workshop 13–17 Jul 2020.
  • Higgs and Effective Field Theory - HEFT 2020 (virtual), 15–17 Apr 2020.
  • 3rd Tracker Upgrade DAQ school, 2019, CERN.
  • Physics Object School(POS), 2019, Aachen (Germany).
  • Belgian Dutch German graduate school in particle physics BND 2019, SPA (Belgium).
  • Statistics for High Energy Physics 24-28 June 2019 by Pietro Vischia. UCLouvain- CP3 (Belgium).
  • CMS Induction Course, 2019, CERN.
  • CMS Data Analysis School CMSDAS, 2019 Pisa (Italy).
  • The Fourth Conference in Quantum Africa Series 30th of April to the 5th of May 2017, (Tunis).
  • Physics Without Frontiers HEP course one month long taught remotely by Mario Campanelli from UCL, UK, with a series of lectures in person, (Tunis).
  • The Day’s Young Researchers in Physics 2016, on the occasion of the centenary of the Theory of General Relativity, (Tunis).

HEP Skills

Monte Carlo techniques (⋆5), Machine learning tools (⋆4), Data modeling (⋆5), Statistical techniques (⋆4).

(⋆ scale: 0 = basic → 6 = expert)