Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less. Marie Curie

I am a researcher in experimental physics at IIHE and associate professor at the ULB. I am curious about fundamental physics: Where do the highest energetic particles that exist come from? Can we measure photons with energies above 10 PeV? Which objects can accelerate them and can we use the neutrinos to find them? Is dark matter really a WIMP? You can find my recent publications on inspire or ORCID iD iconhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-5771-1124 .

Ultra high energy cosmic rays, photons, neutrinos, dark matter and particle physics

Pierre Auger Observatory

I am a member of the Pierre Auger collaboration since 2004. I had and have lots of fun with the energy spectrum, AugerPrime upgrade, mass composition, PLD software, asados, antennas, Guapa Guerrera...

PEPS

The Project for Extreme PeVatrons Searches (PEPS) is an idea of measuring the highest energetic photons at the Pierre Auger site. It is a place of dreaming, designing, building, measuring and doing fun science.

Global Cosmic Rays Observatory

What will come after the Pierre Auger Observatory and Telescope Array stop taking data? Is it worth and possible to build something at least 20 times larger (60,000 km-square)? Will we be able to build such a detector in our lifetime?

IceCube Observatory

I joined the IceCube collaboration in 2017. My main interests are cosmic ray measurements (muon number, mass composition) using IceTop and in-ice detectors. (and of course to go to the South pole)

Xenon 1T

I have switched to direct dark matter searches for a short period (2016-2017). Background measurements and work in a tunnel with liquid Xenon is a challenge.

NA61/SHINE

In 2008-2009 I learned the difference between measurements with 20% uncertainty and 2%. NA61/SHINE is a fixed target experiment that provides excellent coverage in the forward direction.

My research took me to beautiful countries with amazing people:
Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy, Bonn
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe
Laboratoire de Physique Nucléaire et de Hautes Energies, Paris
The Lagrange Institute, Paris
Universidad de Granada
New York University, Abu Dhabi
Inter-University Institute for High Energies, Brussels

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