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General Information

Full Name Andrey Pozdnyakov
Date of Birth Some Day of a Month in year 1985
Languages Russian, English, German (B1), French (A2)

Education

  • 2015
    PhD
    Northwestern University (Evanston, US)
    • Search for the Higgs Boson Decays to a Photon and Two Leptons with low Dilepton Invariant Mass
  • 2008
    Masters Diploma
    Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (Russia)
    • Impact of the Parton Distribution Functions at small x on the spectra of hadronic jets.
  • 2006
    Bachelors Diploma
    Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology
    • Detecting a Higgs boson with high mass at LHC, Monte Carlo simulations.

Experience

  • 2018 - current
    Postdoctoral researcher
    RWTH Aachen University (Germany)
    • Working on CMS Experiment at the LHC
      • Data analysis and search for Higgs boson decay to charm quarks.
      • Event simulation and sample generation for CMS experiment.
  • 2015 - 2018
    Postdoctoral researcher
    National Central University (Taiwan)
    • Search for HH → bbγγ process at CMS
    • Responsible for BPTX system of the CMS detector
    • Test beam for HGCAL detector modules for future CMS upgrade

Academic Interests

  • Data analysis of the CMS experiment
    • Search for H → cc and H → bb decays
    • Constraining Higgs-charm Yukawa coupling
    • Search for Higgs + charm production process at LHC
    • Search for H → γ*γ → ℓℓγ decay
  • Monte Carlo generators and Event simulation
    • Accurate simulation of V+jets processes at LHC
    • Comparison of various MC generators

Other Interests

  • chess, football