Ismail Soudi

Ismail Soudi

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isma@physik.uni-bielefeld.de | Male, Born 1995 | Nationality: Morocco

“After all, I was born not knowing and have only had a little time to change that here and there.” — Richard P. Feynman

Professional Experience


Oct 2025 -- Present

Akademischer Rat — University of Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany

Nov 2023 -- Sept 2025

Postdoctoral Researcher — University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland
With: Kari J. Eskola and Harri Niemi

Nov 2021 -- Oct 2023

Postdoctoral Researcher — Wayne State University, Detroit, USA
With: Abhijit Majumder

Education


2018 -- 2021

PhD in Physics — Bielefeld University, Bielefeld, Germany
Thesis: "Jet fragmentation in QCD medium" with Soeren Schlichting

2016 -- 2018

MSc in Theoretical Physics — University of Wroclaw, Wroclaw, Poland
Thesis: "Meson dissociation in hot, dense matter within the Beth-Uhlenbeck approach" with David Blaschke

2015 -- 2016

1st Year MSc in Fundamental Physics — Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France

2012 -- 2015

Bachelor's in Fundamental Physics — Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France

Scholarships and Graduate School


2018 -- 2021

HGS-HIRe for FAIR Fellowship
Travel fund (1K EUR per year)

2019 -- 2021

Bielefeld Graduate School in Theoretical Sciences (BGTS)

Research Experience


Oct 2025 -- Present

Member — CRC-TR 211
'Strong-interaction matter under extreme conditions' -- TRR 211

Nov 2023 -- Sept 2025

Member — Centre of Excellence in Quark Matter
Research Council of Finland's Centre of Excellence

Nov 2023 -- Sept 2025

Member — YoctoLHC Collaboration
ERC Advanced Grant

Nov 2021 -- Present

Member — JETSCAPE Collaboration
NSF-funded research collaboration

Nov 2018 -- Nov 2021

Junior Member — CRC-TR 211
'Strong-interaction matter under extreme conditions' -- TRR 211

Jul -- Sep 2018

Erasmus Internship — Institute of Space Sciences & Astronomy, Malta
Gravitational waves in modified symmetric Teleparallel Gravity. With Dr. Jackson Levi Said

Oct 2017 -- Jun 2018

Paid Internship — Institute of Theoretical Physics, Wroclaw, Poland
Meson dissociation in hot, dense matter. With Prof. David Blaschke

May -- Jun 2016

Internship — Orsay Laboratory of Theoretical Physics, Orsay, France
Particle physics: QCD and QED Feynman diagram calculations. With Dr. Samuel Wallon

Jan 2015

Internship — Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris, Paris, France
Astronomical spectroscopy: interstellar clouds studied by visible/UV spectroscopy. With Dr. Patrick Boissé

Teaching Experience


Winter 2024/25

Exercises in Advanced Quantum Field Theory — University of Jyväskylä

Winter 2020/21

Exercises in Non-equilibrium Physics — Bielefeld University

Languages


Arabic (Native), French (Native), English (Fluent)

Computer Skills


Programming for Physics: C++, Mathematica (xAct), Python, Julia, SageMath (SageManifolds), Fortran

Web & Other: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, LaTeX, Typst

Invited Talks (13)


  1. Small systems: theory overview - energy loss
    Large Hadron Collider Physics 2025
    🇹🇼 National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan (2025-05-09) | 📄

  2. Theory overview of medium response and hard-soft correlation
    Quark Matter 2025
    🇩🇪 Frankfurt, Germany (2025-04-10) | 📄

  3. Jets in small systems
    High energy probes of the initial stages
    🇨🇭 CERN, Geneva, Switzerland (2025-04-03) | 📄

  4. Finite size effects on jet thermalization
    Light ion collisions at LHC
    🇨🇭 CERN, Geneva, Switzerland (2024-11-14) | 📄

  5. Thermalization of jets in QCD plasma
    Jet Modification and Hard-Soft Correlations
    🇯🇵 Tokyo, Japan (2024-09-29) | 📄

  6. Jets: Hard-soft correlation - Theory overview
    Hard Probes 2024
    🇯🇵 Nagasaki, Japan (2024-09-26) | 📄

  7. Studying small systems using a multi-stage approach
    New jet quenching tools to explore equilibrium and non-equilibrium dynamics in heavy-ion collisions
    🇮🇹 ECT*, Trento, Italy (2024-02-14) | 📄

  8. High-pT azimuthal anisotropies in p-p and p-A from transverse momentum dependent distributions
    University of Michigan
    🇺🇸 Ann Arbor, MI (2023-10-11)

  9. Thermalization of highly energetic partons in a QCD plasma
    QCD Theory Group at UCLA
    🇺🇸 Los Angeles, USA (2023-02-09) 📄

  10. Thermalization of highly energetic partons in a QCD plasma
    McGill University
    🇨🇦 Montreal, Canada (2023-02-01)

  11. Thermalization of highly energetic partons in a QCD plasma
    RBRC Workshop: Predictions for sPHENIX (Cyber)
    🇺🇸 BNL, Upton NY, USA (2022-07-21) 📄

  12. Energy loss and equilibration of a highly energetic parton in QCD plasmas
    University of Bergen
    🇳🇴 Bergen, Norway (2022-01-18)

  13. Non-perturbative contribution to the collisional broadening and medium induced radiation in QCD plasmas
    CERN TH Heavy Ion group
    🇨🇭 Geneva, Switzerland (2021-05-31) | 📄

Presentations (20)


  1. Studying high pT momentum azimuthal anisotropies in unpolarized proton-proton collisions using transverse momentum dependent (TMD) parton distribution and fragmentation functions
    SPIN 2023
    🇺🇸 Durham, NC (2023-09-26) | 📄

  2. Azimuthal anisotropies at high pT from transverse momentum dependent (TMD) parton distribution and fragmentation functions
    Quark Matter 2023
    🇺🇸 Houston, TX (2023-09-05) | 📄

  3. High transverse momentum azimuthal anisotropy from initial-state correlations in p-p and p-A collisions
    INT Program: Probing QCD at High Energy and Density with Jets
    🇺🇸 Seattle, Washington (2023-10-18) | 📄

  4. Studying small systems using a multi-stage approach
    APS April Meeting - GHP 2023
    🇺🇸 Minneapolis, MN (2023-04-01) | 📄

  5. Monte Carlo methods in jet physics (lecture)
    JETSCAPE Summer School 2023
    🌐 Online (2023-07-01) 📄

  6. Studying small systems using a multi-stage approach
    14th Conference on the Intersections of Particle and Nuclear Physics
    🇺🇸 Orlando, FL (2022-09-03) | 📄

  7. Jet-medium excitations (lecture)
    JETSCAPE Online Summer School 2022
    🌐 Online (2022-08-01) | 📄

  8. Non-perturbative determination of the collisional broadening kernel and medium-induced radiation in QCD plasmas
    Quark Matter 2022 (Cyber)
    🇵🇱 Kraków, Poland (2022-04-07) | 📄

  9. Non-perturbative contribution to the collisional broadening and determination of the in-medium splitting
    The virtual DPG-Tagung (DPG Meeting) of the Matter and Cosmos Section (SMuK)
    🌐 Online (2021-09-02) | 📄

  10. Non-perturbative contribution to the collisional broadening and determination of the in-medium splitting
    INT Program 21-2b: Probing QCD at High Energy and Density with Jets (Cyber)
    🇺🇸 Seattle, Washington (2021-08-11) | 📄

  11. Non-perturbative phenomena in jet modification
    A Virtual Tribute to Quark Confinement and the Hadron Spectrum 2021
    🌐 Online (2021-08-05) | 📄

  12. Non-perturbative contribution to the collisional broadening and medium induced radiation in QCD plasmas
    CRC-TR 211 Meeting and Colloquium (Cyber)
    🇩🇪 Frankfurt, Germany (2021-06-30)

  13. Fragmentation and equilibration of jets in a QCD plasma
    Zimany School 2020 (Cyber)
    🇭🇺 Budapest, Hungary (2020-12-10)

  14. Teleprallel gravity: the forgotten theory of gravity
    University of Bielefeld - BGTS Day
    🇩🇪 Bielefeld, Germany (2020-10-02)

  15. Fragmentation and equilibration of jets in a QCD plasma
    Hard Probes 2020 (Cyber)
    🇺🇸 Austin, Texas (2020-06-02)

  16. Kinetic and chemical equilibration of jets
    CRC-TR 211 Meeting and Colloquium (Cyber)
    🇩🇪 Darmstadt, Germany (2020-04-24)

  17. Jet-medium interactions
    CRC-TR 211 lecture week
    🇩🇪 Limburg, Germany (2019-12-13)

  18. Early time dynamics of heavy-ion collisions
    University of Bielefeld - BGTS Day
    🇩🇪 Bielefeld, Germany (2019-10-25)

  19. Generalized Beth-Uhlenbeck approach to mesons and diquarks in hot, dense quark matter
    Institute of theoretical physics
    🇵🇱 Wroclaw, Poland (2018-03-19)

  20. PNJL Model
    Institute of theoretical physics
    🇵🇱 Wroclaw, Poland (2017-02-26)

Posters (2)


  1. Medium induced shower in an expanding QCD plasma
    Hard Probes 2024
    🇯🇵 Nagasaki, Japan (2024-09-24)

  2. Fragmentation and equilibration of jets in a QCD plasma
    PC2 User Meeting 2020
    🇩🇪 Paderborn, Germany (2020-11-26)

Publications


Publications (23)

  1. Soudi, I. et al., Soft-hard framework with exact four-momentum conservation for small systems, Phys. Rev. C 112, 014905 (2025)

  2. Soudi, Ismail, Majumder, Abhijit, T-odd parton distribution functions and azimuthal anisotropy at high transverse momentum in p-p and p-A collisions, Phys. Rev. C 111, 024901 (2025)

  3. Soudi, Ismail, Takacs, Adam, Deriving a parton shower for jet thermalization in QCD plasmas (2025), arXiv:2510.25837

  4. Roch, H. et al., Transport-based initial conditions for heavy-ion collisions at finite densities (2025), arXiv:2510.06996

  5. Sirimanna, Chathuranga et al., Interplay of prompt and non-prompt photons in photon-triggered jet observables, EPJ Web Conf. 339, 05002 (2025)

  6. Roch, Hendrik et al., Effects of hadronic reinteraction on jet fragmentation from small to large systems, EPJ Web Conf. 339, 02017 (2025)

  7. Soudi, Ismail, Jets: Hard-soft correlation - Theory overview, EPJ Web Conf. 339, 01002 (2025)

  8. Soudi, Ismail, Medium-induced parton splitting in expanding QCD matter (2024), arXiv:2409.04806

  9. Soudi, Ismail, Majumder, Abhijit, Studying high $p_T$ momentum azimuthal anisotropies in unpolarized proton-proton collisions using transverse momentum dependent (TMD) parton distribution and fragmentation functions, PoS SPIN2023, 164 (2024)

  10. Cao et al., Jet quenching: From theory to simulation, Int. J. Mod. Phys. E 33, 2430002 (2024)

  11. Soudi, Ismail, Majumder, Abhijit, Azimuthal anisotropies at high-$p_T$ from transverse momentum dependent (TMD) parton distribution and fragmentation functions, EPJ Web Conf. 296, 13015 (2024)

  12. Soudi, Ismail, Majumder, Abhijit, Azimuthal anisotropy at high transverse momentum in p-p and p-A collisions, Phys. Lett. B 859, 139105 (2024)

  13. Weber et al., Computing jet transport coefficients on the lattice, PoS HardProbes2023, 180 (2023)

  14. Arslandok, M. et al., Hot QCD White Paper (2023), arXiv:2303.17254

  15. Sirimanna et al., Quenching jets increases their flavor, Phys. Rev. C 108, 014911 (2023)

  16. Mehtar-Tani et al., Jet thermalization in QCD kinetic theory, JHEP 05, 091 (2023)

  17. Schlichting, S{\, Non-perturbative Determination of the Collisional Broadening Kernel and Medium-induced Radiation in QCD Plasmas, Acta Phys. Polon. Supp. 16, 1–A121 (2023)

  18. Moore et al., Non-perturbative phenomena in jet modification, EPJ Web Conf. 258, 05001 (2022)

  19. Soudi, Ismail, Energy loss and equilibration of a highly energetic parton in QCD plasmas (2021)

  20. Moore et al., Non-perturbative determination of collisional broadening and medium induced radiation in QCD plasmas, JHEP 10, 059 (2021)

  21. Schlichting, Soeren, Soudi, Ismail, Energy loss and equilibration of jets in a QCD plasma., PoS HardProbes2020, 137 (2021)

  22. Schlichting, Soeren, Soudi, Ismail, Medium-induced fragmentation and equilibration of highly energetic partons, JHEP 07, 077 (2021)

  23. Soudi et al., Polarization of gravitational waves in symmetric teleparallel theories of gravity and their modifications, Phys. Rev. D 100, 044008 (2019)

JETSCAPE Collaboration (co-author, 14)

  1. Ehlers, R. et al., Bayesian inference analysis of jet quenching using inclusive jet and hadron suppression measurements, Phys. Rev. C 111, 054913 (2025)

  2. Tachibana, Y. et al., Enhanced signal of momentum broadening in hard splittings for $\gamma$-tagged jets in a multistage approach (2025), arXiv:2503.23693

  3. Sengupta, A. et al., Hybrid Hadronization – A Study of In-Medium Hadronization of Jets (2025), arXiv:2501.16482

  4. Sirimanna, C. et al., Hard-photon-triggered jets in p-p and A-A collisions, Phys. Rev. C 111, 064911 (2025)

  5. Sirimanna, Chathuranga et al., Photon-triggered jets as probes of multi-stage jet modification, EPJ Web Conf. 296, 11008 (2024)

  6. Ehlers, Raymond et al., Measuring jet quenching with a Bayesian inference analysis of hadron and jet data by JETSCAPE, EPJ Web Conf. 296, 15009 (2024)

  7. Mankolli, Andi et al., 3D multi-system Bayesian calibration with energy conservation to study rapidity-dependent dynamics of nuclear collisions, EPJ Web Conf. 296, 05010 (2024)

  8. Angerami, Aaron et al., Hybrid Hadronization of Jet Showers from $e^++𝑒^−$ to $𝐴 + 𝐴$ with JETSCAPE, PoS HardProbes2023, 166 (2024)

  9. Jetscape et al., A multistage framework for studying the evolution of jets and high-pT probes in small collision systems, PoS HardProbes2023, 128 (2024)

  10. Jetscape et al., Multiscale evolution of heavy flavor in the QGP, PoS HardProbes2023, 100 (2024)

  11. Fan, W. et al., New metric improving Bayesian calibration of a multistage approach studying hadron and inclusive jet suppression, Phys. Rev. C 109, 064903 (2024)

  12. Jetscape et al., Effects of multi-scale jet-medium interactions on jet substructures, PoS HardProbes2023, 165 (2024)

  13. Tachibana, Y. et al., Hard jet substructure in a multistage approach, Phys. Rev. C 110, 044907 (2024)

  14. Fan, W. et al., Multiscale evolution of charmed particles in a nuclear medium, Phys. Rev. C 107, 054901 (2023)

Full list: inspirehep.net/authors/1813544