About me: I’m Louie, an experimental particle physicist working at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, in Geneva. On this page, you can find more information about my work, research interests and content such as the Particle Physics for Babies book. I’m passionate about communicating the exciting science of particle physics to the public. I am available to give talks and seminars for any level… just ask! You can find out more about me here.
My activities
Particle Physics for Babies
Grow your own genius with this book for budding scientists
Searches for new particles
Sifting through the LHC data in the hope of discovering something new!
Precision measurements
Confronting the predictions of the Standard Model to experimental data
Detector R&D
Designing the next generation of particle detectors
Re-interpretation
Exploiting a decode of particle physics results to set constraints on new models!
Talks and Seminars
A summary of my recent presentations at conferences and departments around the world
Papers and publications
A summary of my recent papers, notes and preprints
Latest posts
Five things we learned about fundamental particle physics in 2025
Image: Louie preaching to the converted (during a visit of his masters students to ALICE experiment at CERN in December 2025). Credit: Adrien Auriol. I would like to dedicate this post to the memory of Deepak Kar, who passed away tragically last week after a short illness. We co-organised the CHACAL school together, and I…
What it takes to build a detector
Image: the High Granularity Timing Detector and where it will fit within ATLAS. (Credit: ATLAS collaboration) Last week, I travelled to Lyon to give an overview of the status of the ATLAS High Granularity Timing Detector (HGTD) upgrade project for the leaders of the IN2P3 (the French particle and nuclear physics institute). For each major…
“Particle Physics for Babies” reaches new heights!
A mountain ascent, a new print run, and new translations! Image Credit: Alexis HELLAL. “Particle Physics for Babies” at the summit of Gran Paradiso, at over 4000m of altitude. I often joke with students that writing “Particle Physics for Babies” was a high-point of my career. As you can see from the cover photo, some…
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