Team
Current team-members:
List of all current team-members
Hall of fame (since 2019):
Total completed: 5 PhD, 13 MSc (+3 electrical engineering), 15 BSc (+1 informatics) Valdrin Dajaku (MSc electrical engineering, 2025) "Hardware-Aware Co-Design of Dynamic Graph Neural Networks for the Belle II Experiment" Timo Justinger (MSc electrical engineering, 2025) "Hierarchisches Floorplanning von Datenflussarchitekturen auf FPGAs im Belle II Experiment" Till Raedler (MSc electrical engineering, 2025) "Skalierbare Graph Neuronale Netzwerke durch CGRAs für den Belle II Detektor" Felix Herdtweck (BSc, 2025) "Robustness Studies for GNN-tracking at Belle II" Christian Kleifges (BSc informatics, 2025) "Evaluation of Quantum Graph Neural Networks on Noisy Circuits for Charged Particle Track Reconstruction" Johannes Bertsch (BSc, 2025) (BSc thesis) "Event Selection for B0→K*tautau Using Transformers at Belle II Jonathan Bauer (BSc, 2024) (BSc thesis) "Input Feature Optimization for Track Reconstruction using Graph Neural Networks at Belle II" Patrick Ecker (PhD, 2024) (PhD thesis) "Search for a dark Higgs boson produced in association with inelastic dark matter at the Belle II experiment" Lennard Damer (MSc, 2024) (MSc thesis) "Search for B0→K*tautau with hadronic tagging at the Belle II Experiment" Elias Sailer (BSc, 2024) (BSc thesis and code) "First steps of hydrogen grid optimization utilizing cost rasters and least-cost path methods" Simon Weber (BSc, 2024) (BSc thesis) "Automating K-short Performance Monitoring at Belle II" Florian Ohlheiser (BSc, 2024) (BSc thesis) "Track reconstruction with Hough transformation for low momentum particles at Belle II" Arvid Kammann (BSc, 2024) (BSc thesis) "Automating L1 Trigger Performance Monitoring at Belle II" Robin Schmid (BSc, 2024) BSc thesis) "Preparatory studies for a Time-Dependent CP Violation measurement of B0 to pi0 pi0" Haouri Li (BSc, 2024) "Search for a Dark Photon with Classifying Anomalies through Outer Density Estimation" Yannis Kluegl (BSc, 2024) (BSc thesis) "Development of a C++/Python Interface for a New Track Finding Algorithm in Belle II" Abtin Narimani (PhD DESY, 2024) (PhD thesis) "Improved Particle Identification with the Belle II Calorimeter Using Machine Learning" Sascha Dreyer (PhD DESY, summa cum laude, 2023) (PhD thesis) "Search for a long-lived spin-0 particle in b→s quark transitions at the Belle II experiment" Moritz Bauer (PhD summa cum laude, 2023) (PhD thesis) "Measuring the Branching Fraction of B→rho ell nu Decays with the Belle II Experiment Johanna Matusche (BSc, 2023) (BSc thesis) "Graph Building for Graph Neural Networks for Photon Reconstruction in the Belle II Calorimeter" Philipp Dorwarth (MSc, 2023) (MSc thesis) "Graph-Building and Input Feature Analysis for Edge Classification in the Central Drift Chamber at Belle II" Michael Binder (BSc, 2023) (BSc thesis) "Anomaly Detection Using Isolation Forests in Searches for Inelastic Dark Matter with a Dark Higgs at Belle II" Alexander Avocone (BSc, 2022) "Sensitivity Study for B→Ka Decays at Belle II with XGBoost Classifier" Jonas Eppelt (MSc, 2022) (MSc thesis) "Anomaly Detection in Searches for Inelastic Dark Matter with a Dark Higgs" Florian Wemmer (MSc, 2022) (MSc thesis) "Photon Reconstruction in the Belle II Calorimeter Using Graph Neural Networks" Niklas Buschmann (BSc, 2022) "Validation of the Belle II Bremsstrahlung Correction" Frederik Schmitt (BSc, 2022) (BSc thesis) "Improving Event Selection with Machine Learning Methods for the Search for B→Ka, a→γγ at Belle II" Greta Heine (MSc, 2022) (MSc thesis) "A Fast AI-Based Track Reconstruction on FPGA for the PANDA Experiment" Savino Longo (postdoc, 2022) → Assistant Professor at University of Manitoba (Canada) Alexander Heidelbach (MSc, 2022) (MSc thesis) "Sensitivity Study in the Search for B→Ka, a→γγ with displaced ALPs at Belle II"" Lucas Weidemann (MSc, 2022) "Sensitivity Study in the Search for B→Ka, a→γγ with promptly decaying ALPs at Belle II" Lea Reuter (MSc, 2022) (MSc thesis) "Full Event Interpretation using Graph Neural Networks" Laura Frank (MSc, 2022) (MSc thesis) "Search for the rare decay B→ell nu gamma with the Full Event Interpretation at the Belle II experiment"Munira Khan (MSc, 2021) (MSc thesis) "Laboratory and Simulation studies of Pulse Shape Discrimination in pure CsI and CsI(Tl)"
Michael De Nuccio (PhD, 2021) (thesis) "Search for Axion-Like Particles produced in e+e− collisions and photon energy resolution studies at Belle II"
Sam Cunliffe (postdoc, 2021) → software developer at UCL Centre for Advanced Research Computing (UK)
Nataliia Kovalchuk (postdoc, 2021) → software developer at Liip AG (Switzerland)
Stella Wermuth (MSc, 2021) (MSc thesis) "Neural Network based Pulse Shape Analysis with the Belle II Electromagnetic Calorimeter"
Yu Hu (postdoc, 2020) → staff scientist at the Institute of High Energy Physics (IHEP) (China)
Cedric Ly (MSc, 2020) (MSc thesis) "Shower shape conversion between electrons and photons in Belle II using Cycle Generative Adversarial Network"
Sebastian Stengel (MSc, 2019) (MSc thesis) "Optimization of the pi0 reconstruction selections for the Belle II experiment"