Dr. Clara Leitgeb
Dr. Clara Leitgeb
I am an experimental particle physicist in the group of Prof. Cigdem Issever at HU and a member of the ATLAS and LHCf collaborations.
Current Research Activities
- Measurements of soft hadronic interaction cross sections with the ATLAS and LHCf detectors in proton-proton and proton-Oxygen collisions at the LHC
- Phenomenological studies relating cosmic ray induced air shower measurements to LHC collisions
- Simulations for existing and future forward detectors
Previous Research Projects
- Search for direct production of supersymmetric particles in final states with two tau-leptons with the ATLAS detector
- Use of machine learning techniques for scalar tau searches with the ATLAS detector
- Search for tau-flavoured dark matter with the ATLAS detector
- Calibration of the ATLAS tau identification and energy scale
Coordination Roles
- Convener of the soft QCD physics analysis group in ATLAS (since 2024)
- Analysis contact in ATLAS for ATLAS+LHCf feasibility studies (2022-2023)
- Coordinator of common astroparticle and particle physics research efforts at HU/DESY (since 2021)
- Member of the DESY-FH Early Career Scientist Board (2022-2023)
- Workshop Organizer: “Forward Physics and Hadronic Models”, DESY Hamburg and Zeuthen, HU Berlin, 22.4.2024
Other Activities
- Masterclasses at schools "particle physicist for one day" with the Netzwerk Teilchenwelt and DESY (since 2017)
- Guide for CERN tours and trained conferencier (2019)
Curriculum Vitae
- since 2024: Staff scientist at HU
- 2023-2024: Postdoc at HU
- 2021-2023: Postdoc at DESY
- 2017-2020: PhD at Ludwig-Maximilians Universität Munich (based at CERN in 2019)
