Wolfgang LUKAS

CERN, Geneva - Switzerland

I am working for the Fast Track Simulation (FATRAS) group on the material description and material interactions validation of the ATLAS detector. FATRAS provides a fast alternative to the full Geant4 simulation. It is calibrated with Geant4 simulation data and will be validated with real data from the ATLAS experiment. An overall aim of my work is to achieve a fast tuning and calibration cycle for FATRAS and to provide profound feedback of material calibration information to the full MC simulation project. Later during my thesis I will participate in a MC data intensive analysis that is highly sensitive to the material budget, such as the W mass measurement. I am familiar with the operating systems Mac OS X, Linux and Windows XP, and programming languages such as C++, Python and MATLAB. I am also familiar with Athena, ROOT and Geant4 which I am using for my work.