Henning Kirschenmann

Professor and Academy Research Fellow at the Lappeenranta-Lahti University of Technology LUT and the Helsinki Institue of Physics. Specialised in jet-energy corrections and physics analyses with hadronic final states. Performing data-analysis and machine learning studies using Python and C++.

Work experience

• since 09/2024: LUT University and Helsinki Institute of Physics, Professor and Academy Research Fellow (Starting grant by the Research Council of Finland; Budget 1.1 mio. EUR)
• 09/2023-08/2024: Helsinki Institute of Physics, Academy Research Fellow
• 01/2022 - 08/2023: Helsinki Institute of Physics, Senior Scientist 
• 2/2017 - 12/2021: Helsinki Institute of Physics, Scientist 
• 11/2014 – 01/2017: CERN, Senior Research Fellow in the CERN CMS group
• 01/2011 – 10/2014: Hamburg University, research assistant in the group of Prof. Peter Schleper

Leadership and expert functions within CMS

• 09/2022 - 08/2023: Group leader (L3) of the CMS physics subgroup for top quark mass and other properties (TOP-TMP) (ca. 30 PhD students and postdocs)
• 09/2020 - 08/2022: Group leader (L2) of the CMS physics object group for jets and MET (largest POG in CMS with ca. 250 FTE service work months per year)
• 09/2018 - 08/2018: Group leader (L3) of the CMS standard model physics subgroup for analyses in hadronic final states (SMP-HAD) (ca. 40 PhD students and postdocs)
• 09/2016 – 08/2018: Group leader (L3) of the CMS jet energy corrections and resolutions group (ca. 20 PhD students and postdocs)
• 12/2014 – 08/2016: Group leader (L3) of the CMS JetMET trigger group (ca. 15 PhD students and postdocs)