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Radja Boughezal

Theoretical particle physicist
PhD 2005, University of Freiburg, Germany
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Research Interests:

Radja Boughezal’s research focuses on the ultra-precise understanding of Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD), the theory of the strong force. She applies her QCD investigations to model the high-energy interactions occurring at experiments such as the Large Hadron Collider in Geneva, Switzerland. A precision understanding of LHC phenomena may reveal subtle deviations between data and the Standard Model of particle physics that suggest answers to open questions about the universe such as the nature of dark matter and the abundance of matter over anti-matter. Radja’s work bridges an analytic understanding of fundamental theory with large numerical simulations on supercomputers.

Positions Held:

Physicist at Argonne National Laboratory - starting 2015
Adjunct Associate Professor at Northwestern University - starting 2015
Assistant Physicist at Argonne National Laboratory - starting 2010
Adjunct Assistant Professor at Northwestern University - starting 2010
Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Zurich, Switzerland - starting 2008
Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Wurzburg, Germany - starting 2005

Awards and Honors:

2019 DOE Leadership Computing INCITE Award
2018 DOE Leadership Computing INCITE Award
2017 DOE Leadership Computing INCITE Award
2016 Emmy Noether Fellow of the Perimeter Institute, Canada
Sofja Kovalevskaja research fellowship for the years 2005-2008
Scholarship from Freiburg University for the PhD studies for the years 2002-2005
ICTP fellowship for the Master's Degree in Theoretical Physics (Trieste, Italy) for the years 2000-2001

Publications:

list of publications from INSPIRE

Conference/Workshop Organization:

New Opportunities for Beyond-the-Standard Model Searches at the EIC (Co-organizer), July 21-24, 2025, CFNS, Stony Brook University, USA
Snowmass 2021 topical workshop on ``Theory meets experiment on |Vub| and |Vcb|“ (Co-organizer) , January 11-12, 2021, held remotely.
15th annual Fermilab-CERN Hadron Collider Physics Summer School (Co-organizer) , Aug. 10-21, 2020, Fermilab, USA
LPC workshop on physics connections between the LHC and EIC (Co-organizer) , November 13-15, 2019, Fermilab, USA
In Search of New Physics Using SMEFT (Chair) , October 2-4, 2019, Argonne, USA
Advances in QCD and Applications to Hadron Colliders Workshop (Co-organizer) , November 8-10, 2017, UCLA, USA
Aspen summer workshop - Reaching New Summits: The LHC at Full Strength (Co-organizer), July 23-August 27, 2017, Aspen, USA
LOOPFEST XVI: Radiative Corrections for the LHC and Future Colliders (Chair) , May 31-June 2, 2017, Argonne National Laboratory, USA
Advances in QCD and Applications to Hadron Colliders Workshop (Chair) , October 26-28, 2016, Argonne National Laboratory, USA
KITP workshop: LHC Run II and the Precision Frontier (Co-organizer), March 21-June 24, 2016, UC Santa Barbara, USA
XLIII International Symposium on Multiparticle Dynamics (Co-organizer), September 2013, Chicago, USA
US ATLAS Physics Workshop 2013 (Co-organizer), July 2013, Argonne, USA
The Next Stretch of the Higgs Magnificant Mile (Co-chair) , May 2012, Chicago, USA
LoopFest X, Radiative corrections for the LHC and future colliders (Co-chair), May 2011, Evanston, USA
Radcor 2009, 9th International Symposium on Radiative Corrections (Co-organizer), October 2009, Ascona, Switzerland

Convenership Roles:

15th conference on the Intersections of Particle and Nuclear Physics (CIPANP 2025), June 8-13, 2025, Madison, Wisconsin.
Convener for the topical group ``Parton and Gluon Distributions in Nucleons and Nuclei".
Standard Model at the LHC, July 10-13, 2023, Fermilab USA.

Convener for the topical group "Effective Field Theories".

Snowmass 2021.

Convener for the topical group "Theoretical Techniques for Precision Physics", Theory Frontier.

The 40th International Conference on High Energy Physics (ICHEP 2020), July 30-August 5, 2020, Prague, Czech Republic.

Convener for the Strong Interactions and Hadron Physics working group.

2019 Meeting of the APS Division of Particles and Fields (DPF 2019), July 29-August 2, 2019, Northeastern University, Boston, USA.

Convener for the QCD and Heavy Ions working group.

The International Workshop on Future Linear Colliders, October 22-26, 2018, Arlington, Texas, USA.