Funding success supports research in particle physics

Congratulations to Dr Franz Herzog who has received a European Research Council Consolidator Grant.

The European Research Council (ERC) has announced recipients of its 2024 Consolidator Grants. These grants aim to support outstanding scientists and scholars as they establish their independent research teams and develop their most promising scientific ideas. The funding is provided through the EU’s Horizon Europe programme.

Collider physics

Dr Herzog’s research interests focus on high-order perturbative calculations in Quantum Chromo Dynamics and its applications in collider physics.

The grant will be used to improve theoretical predictions for producing Higgs bosons, electroweak bosons, top quarks and jets as created in collisions at CERN's Large Hadron Collider. To accomplish these highly challenging calculations a novel methodology is proposed to develop asymptotic series expansions based on new insights in Feynman graph theory.