Ismail Soudi
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 |
Nov 2021 -- Oct 2023 |
Postdoctoral Researcher — Wayne
State University, Detroit, USA |
Education
2018 -- 2021 |
PhD in Physics — Bielefeld
University, Bielefeld, Germany |
2016 -- 2018 |
MSc in Theoretical Physics —
University of Wroclaw, Wroclaw, Poland |
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 |
2019 -- 2021 |
Bielefeld Graduate School in Theoretical Sciences (BGTS) |
Research Experience
Oct 2025 -- Present |
Member — CRC-TR 211 |
Nov 2023 -- Sept 2025 |
Member — Centre of Excellence in
Quark Matter |
Nov 2023 -- Sept 2025 |
Member — YoctoLHC
Collaboration |
Nov 2021 -- Present |
Member — JETSCAPE
Collaboration |
Nov 2018 -- Nov 2021 |
Junior Member — CRC-TR 211 |
Jul -- Sep 2018 |
Erasmus Internship — Institute of
Space Sciences & Astronomy, Malta |
Oct 2017 -- Jun 2018 |
Paid Internship — Institute of
Theoretical Physics, Wroclaw, Poland |
May -- Jun 2016 |
Internship — Orsay Laboratory of
Theoretical Physics, Orsay, France |
Jan 2015 |
Internship — Institut
d'Astrophysique de Paris, Paris, France |
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)
Small systems: theory overview - energy loss
Large Hadron Collider Physics 2025
🇹🇼 National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan (2025-05-09)
| 📄Theory overview of medium response and hard-soft correlation
Quark Matter 2025
🇩🇪 Frankfurt, Germany (2025-04-10)
| 📄Jets in small systems
High energy probes of the initial stages
🇨🇭 CERN, Geneva, Switzerland (2025-04-03)
| 📄Finite size effects on jet thermalization
Light ion collisions at LHC
🇨🇭 CERN, Geneva, Switzerland (2024-11-14)
| 📄Thermalization of jets in QCD plasma
Jet Modification and Hard-Soft Correlations
🇯🇵 Tokyo, Japan (2024-09-29)
| 📄Jets: Hard-soft correlation - Theory overview
Hard Probes 2024
🇯🇵 Nagasaki, Japan (2024-09-26)
| 📄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)
| 📄High-pT azimuthal anisotropies in p-p and p-A from transverse momentum dependent distributions
University of Michigan
🇺🇸 Ann Arbor, MI (2023-10-11)Thermalization of highly energetic partons in a QCD plasma
QCD Theory Group at UCLA
🇺🇸 Los Angeles, USA (2023-02-09) 📄Thermalization of highly energetic partons in a QCD plasma
McGill University
🇨🇦 Montreal, Canada (2023-02-01)
Thermalization of highly energetic partons in a QCD plasma
RBRC Workshop: Predictions for sPHENIX (Cyber)
🇺🇸 BNL, Upton NY, USA (2022-07-21) 📄Energy loss and equilibration of a highly energetic parton in QCD plasmas
University of Bergen
🇳🇴 Bergen, Norway (2022-01-18)Non-perturbative contribution to the collisional broadening and medium induced radiation in QCD plasmas
CERN TH Heavy Ion group
🇨🇭 Geneva, Switzerland (2021-05-31)
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Presentations (20)
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)
| 📄Azimuthal anisotropies at high pT from transverse momentum dependent (TMD) parton distribution and fragmentation functions
Quark Matter 2023
🇺🇸 Houston, TX (2023-09-05)
| 📄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)
| 📄Studying small systems using a multi-stage approach
APS April Meeting - GHP 2023
🇺🇸 Minneapolis, MN (2023-04-01)
| 📄Monte Carlo methods in jet physics (lecture)
JETSCAPE Summer School 2023
🌐 Online (2023-07-01) 📄Studying small systems using a multi-stage approach
14th Conference on the Intersections of Particle and Nuclear Physics
🇺🇸 Orlando, FL (2022-09-03)
| 📄Jet-medium excitations (lecture)
JETSCAPE Online Summer School 2022
🌐 Online (2022-08-01)
| 📄Non-perturbative determination of the collisional broadening kernel and medium-induced radiation in QCD plasmas
Quark Matter 2022 (Cyber)
🇵🇱 Kraków, Poland (2022-04-07)
| 📄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)
| 📄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)
| 📄Non-perturbative phenomena in jet modification
A Virtual Tribute to Quark Confinement and the Hadron Spectrum 2021
🌐 Online (2021-08-05)
| 📄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)Fragmentation and equilibration of jets in a QCD plasma
Zimany School 2020 (Cyber)
🇭🇺 Budapest, Hungary (2020-12-10)Teleprallel gravity: the forgotten theory of gravity
University of Bielefeld - BGTS Day
🇩🇪 Bielefeld, Germany (2020-10-02)Fragmentation and equilibration of jets in a QCD plasma
Hard Probes 2020 (Cyber)
🇺🇸 Austin, Texas (2020-06-02)Kinetic and chemical equilibration of jets
CRC-TR 211 Meeting and Colloquium (Cyber)
🇩🇪 Darmstadt, Germany (2020-04-24)Jet-medium interactions
CRC-TR 211 lecture week
🇩🇪 Limburg, Germany (2019-12-13)Early time dynamics of heavy-ion collisions
University of Bielefeld - BGTS Day
🇩🇪 Bielefeld, Germany (2019-10-25)Generalized Beth-Uhlenbeck approach to mesons and diquarks in hot, dense quark matter
Institute of theoretical physics
🇵🇱 Wroclaw, Poland (2018-03-19)PNJL Model
Institute of theoretical physics
🇵🇱 Wroclaw, Poland (2017-02-26)
Posters (2)
Medium induced shower in an expanding QCD plasma
Hard Probes 2024
🇯🇵 Nagasaki, Japan (2024-09-24)Fragmentation and equilibration of jets in a QCD plasma
PC2 User Meeting 2020
🇩🇪 Paderborn, Germany (2020-11-26)
Publications
Publications (23)
Soudi, I. et al., Soft-hard framework with exact four-momentum conservation for small systems, Phys. Rev. C 112, 014905 (2025)
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)
Soudi, Ismail, Takacs, Adam, Deriving a parton shower for jet thermalization in QCD plasmas (2025), arXiv:2510.25837
Roch, H. et al., Transport-based initial conditions for heavy-ion collisions at finite densities (2025), arXiv:2510.06996
Sirimanna, Chathuranga et al., Interplay of prompt and non-prompt photons in photon-triggered jet observables, EPJ Web Conf. 339, 05002 (2025)
Roch, Hendrik et al., Effects of hadronic reinteraction on jet fragmentation from small to large systems, EPJ Web Conf. 339, 02017 (2025)
Soudi, Ismail, Jets: Hard-soft correlation - Theory overview, EPJ Web Conf. 339, 01002 (2025)
Soudi, Ismail, Medium-induced parton splitting in expanding QCD matter (2024), arXiv:2409.04806
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)
Cao et al., Jet quenching: From theory to simulation, Int. J. Mod. Phys. E 33, 2430002 (2024)
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)
Soudi, Ismail, Majumder, Abhijit, Azimuthal anisotropy at high transverse momentum in p-p and p-A collisions, Phys. Lett. B 859, 139105 (2024)
Weber et al., Computing jet transport coefficients on the lattice, PoS HardProbes2023, 180 (2023)
Arslandok, M. et al., Hot QCD White Paper (2023), arXiv:2303.17254
Sirimanna et al., Quenching jets increases their flavor, Phys. Rev. C 108, 014911 (2023)
Mehtar-Tani et al., Jet thermalization in QCD kinetic theory, JHEP 05, 091 (2023)
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)
Moore et al., Non-perturbative phenomena in jet modification, EPJ Web Conf. 258, 05001 (2022)
Soudi, Ismail, Energy loss and equilibration of a highly energetic parton in QCD plasmas (2021)
Moore et al., Non-perturbative determination of collisional broadening and medium induced radiation in QCD plasmas, JHEP 10, 059 (2021)
Schlichting, Soeren, Soudi, Ismail, Energy loss and equilibration of jets in a QCD plasma., PoS HardProbes2020, 137 (2021)
Schlichting, Soeren, Soudi, Ismail, Medium-induced fragmentation and equilibration of highly energetic partons, JHEP 07, 077 (2021)
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)
Ehlers, R. et al., Bayesian inference analysis of jet quenching using inclusive jet and hadron suppression measurements, Phys. Rev. C 111, 054913 (2025)
Tachibana, Y. et al., Enhanced signal of momentum broadening in hard splittings for $\gamma$-tagged jets in a multistage approach (2025), arXiv:2503.23693
Sengupta, A. et al., Hybrid Hadronization – A Study of In-Medium Hadronization of Jets (2025), arXiv:2501.16482
Sirimanna, C. et al., Hard-photon-triggered jets in p-p and A-A collisions, Phys. Rev. C 111, 064911 (2025)
Sirimanna, Chathuranga et al., Photon-triggered jets as probes of multi-stage jet modification, EPJ Web Conf. 296, 11008 (2024)
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)
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)
Angerami, Aaron et al., Hybrid Hadronization of Jet Showers from $e^++𝑒^−$ to $𝐴 + 𝐴$ with JETSCAPE, PoS HardProbes2023, 166 (2024)
Jetscape et al., A multistage framework for studying the evolution of jets and high-pT probes in small collision systems, PoS HardProbes2023, 128 (2024)
Jetscape et al., Multiscale evolution of heavy flavor in the QGP, PoS HardProbes2023, 100 (2024)
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)
Jetscape et al., Effects of multi-scale jet-medium interactions on jet substructures, PoS HardProbes2023, 165 (2024)
Tachibana, Y. et al., Hard jet substructure in a multistage approach, Phys. Rev. C 110, 044907 (2024)
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