Matthew graduated from the University of Liverpool with an Integrated Master’s in Physics in 2024. For his Master’s project with the ALICE group, he used JEWEL simulations to investigate the origins of phenomena observed in recoil jet analyses measured in ALICE Run 2 data. Matthew will join the LIV.INNO CDT in October 2024 where he will continue working with the ALICE group.
He will focus on developing novel algorithms and machine learning based approaches to measurements in heavy ion collisions, and phenomenological approaches to rigorously compare measurements to models. In particular, he will focus on the measurement of ‘jets’ – the collimated sprays of hadrons formed in high-energy particle collisions which probe the Quark-Gluon Plasma at all stages of its evolution. Also, he will use Bayesian parameter estimation for rigorous, multi-observable data-model comparisons and develop new approaches for Bayesian analyses, focusing on approaches to optimise posterior sampling.