Current Members

Yannis Georis

President

Research directions:
Cosmology and General Relativity
Phenomenology of elementary particles
Theories of the fundamental interactions

PhD Student

Working on potential explanations for the origin of Baryonic and Dark matter. I focus on extensions of the Standard Model with « light » particles, e.g. particles having a mass at the MeV to TeV scale for which thermal corrections are crucial.

Julien Touchèque

Secretary

Research directions:
Fundamental Physics
Effective Field Theory

PhD Student

Phenomenology of CP violation in weak bosons pair production and single top quark processes with the Standard Model Effective Field Theory.

Valentin Weber

Treasurer

Research directions:
Cosmology and General Relativity
Phenomenology of elementary particles

PhD Student

I am currently working on light hidden sector Dark Matter (including sterile neutrinos and ALPs). The main focus of this work lies on the Dark Matter production in the early universe, in particular on the computation of thermal corrections to the product during freeze-in. I want to make more reliable predictions for the relic density in such models, which can be tested in experiments.

Antoine Depasse

Webmaster

Research directions:
Cosmology and General Relativity
Data analysis in HEP, astroparticle and GW experiments

PhD Student

Searches for gravitational wave signals emitted by ultralight boson clouds around rotating black holes with the LIGO-Virgo laser interferometers.

Clémentine Dassy

Member

Research directions:
Cosmology and General Relativity
Fundamental Physics

PhD Student

I’m working on trajectories of charged particles in electromagnetic knots in vacuum. The next step is to translate these electromagnetic knots into gravitational knots to understand the discrepancy between the theoretical and the observed velocity curves of galaxies.

Nicolas Robert

Member

Research directions:
Mathematical Physics

PhD Student

My research is currently focused on spatial phase separation occurring in some statistical models. This phenomenon appears when boundary conditions induce macroscopic effects on the system, resulting in the formation of several regions with distinct behaviours. These regions are separated by interfaces generally referred to as « arctic curves ».