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Dr. Heiner Josef Antonius

Tholen

Curriculum Vitae

IoT Lead, Software- and Data-Engineer

Apr. 2019 - present

Alcemy GmbH, Berlin, Germany

Predictive quality control for cement and concrete production. Alcemy's goal is to cut the CO2 footprint of concrete by 30%.

2019 - 2020: Fullstack engineer on cement QA product; Backend, Frontend, Data Engineering, User Research and User Testing

2021: First engineer on concrete QA product; Data Engineering

2022: Lead Iot engineer on concrete QA product; Data Engineering

Entrepreneur

May. 2021 - present

Aufwind Tholen GmbH, Gangelt, Germany

Renewable energy. Aufwind Tholen aims to expand its operations from wind energy alone to solar and wind combined with supply-driven energy consumption.

Post-Doc Research Fellow

Oct. 2017 - Mar. 2019

DESY Hamburg, Germany

Selected for the competitive DESY fellowship in High-Energy Physics. Scientific work on the Higgs boson and b quark tagging with experimental data from the CERN LHC.

EF Cohort Member

Oct. 2018 - Dec. 2018

Entrepreneur First (EF), Berlin, Germany

Awarded competitive stipend for 14-week start-up program. EF funds individuals to build companies from scratch, develop ideas, and accelerate through fundraising.

Doctorate

Oct. 2013 - June 2017

University of Hamburg, Germany

Thesis: "Search for Single Production of a Heavy Vector-Like Top Quark Partner Decaying to a Higgs Boson and a Top Quark at CMS",

Supervisor: Dr. Alexander Schmidt

Specialization: High energy physics

Research associate

Nov. 2012 - Sep. 2013

RWTH Aachen University, Germany

Department of Physics IIIB
Based at CERN, Geneva, Switzerland

M.Sc. in Physics

Oct. 2010 - Oct. 2012

RWTH Aachen University, Germany

Thesis: "Study of the Inclusive Top-pair + Gamma Cross Section with the CMS Experiment",

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Achim Stahl

Specialization: Astro- and particle physics (exp.) / Relativity and cosmology (theo.)

Research assistant

Apr. 2010 - May. 2011

RWTH Aachen University, Germany

Department of Physics IB
Project: "The PERDaix Experiment: The PERDaix magnet, Flight and readout software, Data quality management"

B.Sc. in Physics

Oct. 2006 - Sep. 2010

RWTH Aachen University, Germany

Thesis: "The Magnet of the PERDaix Experiment",

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Stefan Schael

Abitur (A-level)

June 2006

Euregio-Kolleg Würselen (secondary school), Würselen, Germany

Majors: English and Arts

Journeyman cook

Aug 1999 - Aug 2002

Gangelter Einrichtungen Maria Hilf, Gangelt, Germany

Selected conference presentations

2018 August DESY colloquium, Observation of Higgs boson decay to bottom quarks, Oral presentation (45 min.), DESY, Hamburg, Germany
2017 March La Thuile 2017 (Young Scientist Forum), Search for Single Production of a Vector-Like T Quark Decaying into a Top Quark and a Higgs Boson, Oral presentation (12 min.), La Thuile, Aosta Valley, Italy
2017 February 129th LHCC Meeting, Search for single production of a heavy vector-like T quark decaying to a Higgs boson and a top quark, Poster presentation, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
2016 November 10th Annual Meeting of the Helmholtz Alliance "Physics at the Terascale", Vector-like quark searches in CMS, Oral presentation (20 min.), DESY, Hamburg, Germany
2016 July SUSY 2016, Search for fermionic top partners at CMS, Oral presentation (20 min.), Melbourne, Australia
2014 July ICHEP 2014, Measurement of the Inclusive Top-Quark Pair + Photon Production Cross Section, Poster presentation, Valencia, Spain
2014 February Lake Louise Winter Institute 2014, Measurement of top quark pair production in association with vector bosons, Oral presentation (15 min.), Lake Louise, Alberta, Canada

Selected publications in high-energy physics

2018

Observation of Higgs boson decay to bottom quarks, CMS Collaboration, DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.121.121801

2016

(leading role)
Search for single production of a heavy vector-like T quark decaying to a Higgs boson and a top quark with a lepton and jets in the final state, CMS Collaboration, DOI: 10.1016/j.physletb.2017.05.019

2016

Measurement of the Inclusive Top-Quark Pair + Photon Production Cross Section, Heiner Tholen, for the CMS Collaboration, Nucl.Part.Phys.Proc. 273-275 (2016) 2796-2798 DOI:10.1016/j.nuclphysbps.2015.10.067

2014

(leading role)
Measurement of the inclusive top-quark pair + photon production cross section in the muon + jets channel in pp collisions at 8 TeV, CMS Collaboration, CMS-PAS-TOP-13-011 (2014)

2012

The PERDaix Detector, A. Bachlechner, B. Beischer, R. Greim and others, Nucl.Instrum.Meth. A695 (2012) 91-95, DOI:10.1016/j.nima.2011.12.002

2011

Contribution to Upgrade of the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS-02) for long term operation on the International Space Station (ISS), K. Lübelsmeyer, A. Schultz von Dratzig, M. Wlochal and others, Nucl.Instrum.Meth. A654 (2011) 639-648, DOI:10.1016/j.nima.2011.06.051

Selected academic trainings

Sep. 2016

Herbstschule Maria Laach, Benediktinerabtei Maria Laach, Maria Laach, Germany

Keywords: High energy physics, Standard Model of Particle physics, Feynman diagrams, LHC

Sep. 2015

Cern School of Computing (CSC), Kavala Institute of Technology, Kavala, Greece

Keywords: Data management, security, networking, performance tuning, parallelization, data analysis.

36/36 points in final examination (announcement)

Aug. 2014

Joint Belgian Dutch German Graduate School, Rolduc Abbey, Kerkrade, The Netherlands

Keywords: Quantum Field Theory, QCD, Physics beyond the standard model, cosmology, Higgs, neutrinos

Apr. 2012

Statistics School, DESY, Hamburg, Germany

Keywords: Parameter estimation/fitting, Limit determination, Data unfolding, RooFit/RooStats

March 2012

Monte Carlo School, DESY, Hamburg, Germany

Keywords: Monte Carlo methods, Parton showers, Higgs Physics, Physics beyond the Standard Model

Selected teaching experiences

Tutor

Oct. 2016 - Feb. 2017

Physics II lecture

Dep. of exp. Phys., University of Hamburg, Germany

Electro-dynamics and optics, experimental and theoretical

Lecturer

Jan. 2016

CMS Data Analysis School (CMSDAS)

Fermilab, Batavia IL, U.S.A.

Lectures and exercises on collision event visualization and data analysis with top quark tagging

(Assistant) lecturer

Jul. 2015
Dec. 2012
Jun. 2012

Physics analysis software toolkit (PAT) tutorials

CMS CERN, Geneva, Switzerland

Lectures and exercises on the Particle flow algorithm (PF) and analysis with the iPython shell in CMSSW

Tutor

Oct. 2011 - Feb. 2012

Introduction to Experimental Particle Physics lecture

Dep. of Phys. IIIB, RWTH Aachen University, Germany

Teaching assistant

Oct. 2010 - Feb. 2011

Physics for Engineering Students

Dep. of Phys. IB, RWTH Aachen University, Germany

Student communication trainer

May. 2009 - Feb. 2012

Project: "TutorInnengruppe (TG): Training for teaching assistants and freshman tutors"

Institute Cluster IMA/ZLW & IfU, RWTH Aachen University, Germany

Language and technical skill

Language education

German Mother tongue
English 9 years in secondary school, including 2 years advanced course
Strong proficiency in scientific context
French 2 years in secondary school
Levels A5+6 at RWTH Aachen University
Spanish Language course at the University of Hamburg
Level A2.1

Technical skill

Programming languages Python, C/C++, HTML & Java/script, SQL
Entry level: Haskell, Rust, Go
Statistical tools Theta, TMVA, PyMC, ROOFIT, ROOSTAT
Other analysis software ROOT, SciPy, pandas, Mathematica, Maple, Matlab
Mechanical skill Assembly, electronics, soldering, welding

Public profiles

LinkedIn

github

Please contact me through my employer alcemy or on LinkedIn.

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