Zuzanna
Chochulska
Exploring the earliest moments of our universe through particle collisions at CERN's ALICE experiment — working at the intersection of fundamental physics and cutting-edge software.
I am honoured to be pursuing my PhD under a unique cotutelle agreement between Warsaw University of Technology and Czech Technical University in Prague — two of Central Europe's leading technical institutions.
As part of the ALICE experiment at CERN, I work on some of the most compelling open questions in modern physics: the conditions of matter in the very first moments after the Big Bang, and the mechanisms governing particle production in ultrarelativistic collisions.
I thrive in collaborative, international environments, embrace every opportunity to learn, and believe that asking the right question is often more powerful than knowing the answer.
Developing state-of-the-art software to extract angular correlation functions within the ALICE experimental framework. These correlations illuminate the particle production process and the conditions of matter at extreme energy densities — mirroring those of the universe in its earliest microseconds.
Contributing to the official ALICE codebase on the collaboration's public GitHub repository. The software handles enormous datasets produced by the Large Hadron Collider and demands rigorous engineering — performance optimisation, maintainability, and scientific correctness across every layer of the analysis pipeline.
The overarching goal of the research programme is to address open questions about the origin and evolution of the universe — in particular the behaviour of quark-gluon plasma and the mechanisms driving particle production at extreme temperatures and densities.
- C++17 — analysis software development
- ROOT / CERN data analysis framework
- Particle physics simulation & reconstruction
- Large-scale scientific computing
- Git & collaborative code workflows
- Performance optimisation for HEP pipelines
- Angular correlation function analysis
- Heavy-ion & ultrarelativistic collisions
- Quark-gluon plasma phenomenology
- Statistical methods in high energy physics
- Cross-institutional research collaboration
- Scientific communication & teamwork
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Interested in particle physics, research collaboration, or just a good conversation about the universe?