Ahmed Abdelmotteleb
Curriculum vitae

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Particle physicist and data scientist with six years on LHCb at CERN, leading precision measurements, analysis teams and collaboration-wide software, with deep experience in statistics, machine learning and quantum computing.

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Experience

  1. Nov 2024 – present

    Postdoctoral Research Fellow, LHCb

    University of Warwick, Department of Physics

    • Lead analyst for the W boson mass measurement with the full Run 2 dataset at 13 TeV, as a double-differential measurement in muon pT and η.
    • Lead analyst for Bc± → Bs(∗)0π± (Run 1+2): ML event selection and zfit mass fit.
    • Leading the 20-person TORCH test-beam analysis team (2022, 2025).
    • Built and maintain the LHCb Analysis Repository Template, now the collaboration’s default analysis skeleton.
    • Physics reviewer for LHCb analyses, including two submitted to Physical Review Letters.
    • Supervisor of Warwick URSS summer projects on normalising flows and quantum computing.
  2. Oct 2020 – Oct 2024

    PhD Researcher, LHCb

    University of Warwick, Department of Physics

    • Led the first LHCb measurement of the forward W → μν differential cross-section in muon pT at 5.02 TeV (JHEP 2026).
    • Developed a modular, reusable route to the W mass via a detector-corrected cross-section, now being adopted by other experiments.
    • Co-developed a new maximum-likelihood method for template fits, implemented in iminuit (EPJC 2022).
    • Contributed to LHCb’s real-time data-processing and trigger software.
  3. Jun 2019 – Jan 2020

    Research Assistant, STAR experiment

    American University in Cairo, with Brookhaven National Laboratory (part-time, alongside my MPhys)

    • Led a team of five young scientists on quark–gluon plasma data-quality studies, presenting results at weekly international meetings.

Education

  1. 2020 – 2024

    PhD in Particle Physics

    University of Warwick

  2. 2016 – 2020

    MPhys Physics (Integrated Master’s)

    University of Manchester

    • Thesis: Search for heavy Majorana neutrinos using left–right symmetric models
    • Supervisor: Prof. Darren Price

Awards

  • UK Quantum Hackathon 2023, second place

    Jul 2023 · National Quantum Computing Centre

    Second of ten teams, for a quantum Monte Carlo particle-transport simulation for nuclear shielding. NQCC write-up

  • Stellify Award

    Jun 2020 · University of Manchester

    The university’s most prestigious extracurricular award (under 5% of students), for sustained leadership, community engagement and academic excellence. About Stellify

  • Peer Support Legacy Award

    Apr 2019 · University of Manchester

    Awarded to the peer-support scheme with the strongest development and impact (about 1 in 30), recognising leadership, mentoring and programme development.

  • Former national sprint champion

    Egypt · 100 m and 200 m

    Personal bests of 10.95 s over 100 m and 22.59 s over 200 m.

Leadership & service

Current roles

  • Convener, Standard Model interactions subgroup

    Jul 2026 – present · LHCb QCD, Electroweak & Exotica WG

    Chair the subgroup’s meetings and set their agendas, review analysis notes and conference practice talks, and help analysts resolve blockers.

  • Internal Communications Group

    Jul 2026 – present · LHCb

    Improve how collaboration information reaches people, through the General Meeting, mailing lists and Mattermost; work with the secretariat on the newsletter and LHCb webpages; collect feedback and pass it to those who can act on it.

  • LHCb General Meeting convener

    Jan 2026 – present · LHCb

    Organise and chair the weekly General Meeting for more than 100 participants, with internal and external speakers, coordinating with spokespersons, run coordinators and experiment heads.

  • Coordinator, Innovative Analysis Techniques

    Jan 2025 – present · LHCb DPA WP4

    Lead the group promoting machine learning, quantum computing and advanced statistics in LHCb; run a monthly expert forum; initiated LHCb’s collaboration with CERN QTI for IBM Quantum access; organised the first LHCb Quantum Computing Workshop and co-organised the LHC Quantum Computing workshop.

  • Warwick LHCb group meeting convener

    Mar 2025 – present · University of Warwick

    Organise the group’s fortnightly meetings: research updates, member presentations, scheduling and agendas.

  • Starterkit organiser and teacher

    Sep 2021 – present · LHCb

    Developed materials and recruited volunteers for 15+ sessions; taught Python and Git/GitLab to more than 100 PhD students and postdocs.

Earlier roles

  • Physics working group liaison to real-time analysis and data processingQCD, Electroweak & Exotica WG: trigger validation, cross-repository code review, and mentoring analysts.2025 – 2026
  • HLT piquet and software shifterTested, integrated and documented more than 60 merge requests during LHCb Run 3 commissioning.Feb – Mar 2023
  • Shift leader and data manager, LHCb control room11 data-manager and 5 shift-leader shifts.2022 – 2023
  • LHCb UK seminars liaison and social media coordinatorOrganised and promoted LHCb UK seminars; ran the LHCb UK Instagram account.2022 – 2023
  • PhD buddy-scheme mentorMentored new PhD students each year at Warwick.2021 – 2024
  • Postgraduate Student–Staff Liaison Committee, Warwick PhysicsSecretary, international, particle-physics and Athena SWAN representative; ran a student well-being survey during COVID-19.2020 – 2022
  • PASS coordinator and leaderPeer-assisted study sessions for 300+ first-year physics students at Manchester; led the first International PASS scheme.2017 – 2020
  • Secretary, Nuclear & Particle Physics SocietyUniversity of Manchester.Manchester

Teaching

  • Graduate Teaching Assistant, Warwick PhysicsTutorials for first-year Classical Mechanics, Special Relativity, Electricity & Magnetism and Classical Dynamics; demonstrator for Computational Physics in Python (about 100 second-year students); exam marking.2020 – 2024
  • Git and GitLab training, LHCb StarterkitIncluding the LHCb analysis repository template, now part of the official Starterkit.Dec 2025
  • Quantum computing lecturesInverted CERN School of Computing, LHCb and LHC Quantum Computing workshops, CERN openlab.2023 – 2026
  • Undergraduate research supervisionWarwick URSS summer projects on normalising flows and quantum computing.2025 – now
  • Arabic language teacher (volunteer)Ten adult students, Manchester’s International Society.2017 – 2018

Outreach

  • Official CERN guide, ATLAS and LHCbSurface, underground and virtual visits, explaining the experiments to the public.CERN
  • “I’m a Scientist” online chatsTalking with school students about my research and careers in physics and STEM.Online
  • University of Warwick open daysProspective-student Q&A and virtual-reality demonstrations of the ATLAS and neutrino detectors.Warwick
  • LHCb Instagram interviewTalking about my research for the collaboration’s Instagram.2022

Skills

Machine learning & AI

  • PyTorch
  • TensorFlow
  • scikit-learn
  • XGBoost
  • Normalising flows
  • Simulation-based inference

Statistics & analysis

  • Likelihood fitting
  • Unfolding
  • Detector calibration
  • Uncertainty quantification
  • Systematics modelling
  • iminuit
  • zfit

Programming & HEP software

  • Python
  • C++
  • Julia
  • Rust
  • Bash
  • ROOT
  • Geant4
  • Pythia
  • Sherpa
  • MadGraph

Computing

  • CUDA / GPU
  • Slurm
  • HTCondor
  • Kubernetes
  • Snakemake
  • CERN LCG Grid
  • GitLab CI/CD

Quantum computing

  • Qiskit
  • PennyLane
  • Variational algorithms
  • Quantum ML

Languages

  • Arabic (native)
  • English (fluent)
  • French (B2)
  • Spanish (B1)

Certifications

Schools

Outside the lab

I grew up in Cairo, Egypt, I am a former national sprint champion, and I have visited 26 countries so far.

Interests

  • Sprinting
  • Football (Manchester United)
  • Drumming
  • Swing dancing
  • Skydiving
  • Fantasy & sci-fi books

Also on Instagram and Facebook.

Ahmed sprinting on an indoor track Ahmed outside Old Trafford