ERC Advanced Grant for Charalampos Anastasiou
Institute for Theoretical Physics (ITP)
Charalampos Anastasiou, Professor at the Institute for Theorectical Physics, has been awarded one of the prestigious ERC Advanced Grants.
Charalampos Anastasiou is one of four researchers from ETH Zurich who have been awarded one of these prestigious grants this year. He is a Professor of Theoretical Particle Physics and his research focuses on making theoretical predictions for the measurements taken during experiments at the LHC particle accelerator at CERN. Six years ago, he received an ERC Starting Grant in order to develop mathematical and computational methods for simulating particle collisions at the LHC. Now, with the ERC Advanced Grant, he can continue and expand this work. He aims to develop even more accurate simulations which match the precision of a broader spectrum of experimental observations of the creation of the Higgs boson and other particles. Ultimately, Anastasiou hopes that some of these observations will not be explained by the simulations and the standard model of particle physics, and that this will lead to the discovery of new physics laws.