Florian Jonas

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I completed my PhD at the University of Münster in Germany, where my research focused on measuring isolated prompt photons in pp and p-Pb collisions with ALICE. The goal was to better constrain nuclear gluon PDFs in the lead nucleus, which exhibit interesting phenomena like gluon shadowing. I also contributed to the ALICE Forward Calorimeter (FoCal), helping shape its physics program, which aims to explore non-linear QCD dynamics, especially gluon saturation, by measuring various probes at very forward rapidities. During my postdoc at UC Berkeley/LBNL, I shifted my focus to jet physics, particularly measuring the correlation of jets with neutral pions and prompt photons, providing calibrated access to jet energy loss in PbPb collisions. I was also part of the JETSCAPE Collaboration, where I worked on integrating electromagnetic observables into a Bayesian inference framework to constrain jet energy loss. Due to my strong interest in electromagnetic probes, I have always been heavily involved in the EMCal project, participating in operations, framework development, triggers, and quality control.

In ALICE, I have served as the ALICE junior representative and am currently the coordinator of the Jet & Photon PAG. I am also the deputy system run coordinator for the EMCal detector. I joined the CERN ALICE team as a research fellow in 2025, where I work on a combination of measurements involving photons, jets, and heavy-flavor hadrons.

Outside of work, I enjoy reading books, collecting vinyl records, and watching good movies. I also like to go road biking in my local area or take pictures with one of my film cameras.


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