Particle physicist and data scientist at CERN.
I work on the LHCb experiment as a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Warwick. I make precision measurements of the Standard Model, develop statistical and machine-learning methods, and build software the wider collaboration relies on.
The W mass is one of the Standard Model’s most sensitive tests for new physics. I extract it from the shape of the muon momentum spectrum, using a reusable, detector-corrected measurement that other experiments are now adopting.
A new likelihood method for template fits (now in iminuit), normalising flows for calibration, and quantum algorithms for particle physics.
Searching for Bc± → Bs(∗)0π± with partial reconstruction, a machine-learning selection and a TensorFlow-based fit.
Leading the 20-person analysis team behind test beams of a precision time-of-flight detector for particle identification.
The LHCb analysis repository template, now the collaboration’s default starting point for new analyses, and contributions to real-time trigger software.
My PhD measurement: the first of its kind at LHCb, designed so the W mass can be extracted from it later.
A new maximum-likelihood method for template fits
H. Dembinski & A. Abdelmotteleb
Electroweak precision measurements at LHCb
A. Abdelmotteleb
Introduction to quantum computing
LHC Quantum Computing Workshop, Valencia
Measuring the W boson mass at LHCb
Elementary Particle Physics seminars, University of Lancaster (Jan 2026) and University of Warwick (Nov 2025)
mW extraction from pTℓ cross-section measurements
LHC Electroweak Working Group general meeting
I grew up in Cairo, studied physics at the University of Manchester (MPhys, with a thesis on heavy Majorana neutrinos), and did my PhD at the University of Warwick on the W boson at LHCb, where I am now a postdoctoral research fellow. Along the way I spent six months on data quality for the STAR experiment at Brookhaven National Laboratory.
I care about teaching and good tooling: I have taught Python, Git and quantum computing to more than a hundred early-career physicists through LHCb Starterkit and CERN schools, and much of my work ends up as software other people use.
Outside the lab: former national sprint champion, lifelong Manchester United fan, drummer, swing dancer, skydiver, and fantasy and sci-fi reader. I have also visited 26 countries and counting.
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