Prof. Peter Z. Skands,

School of Physics and Astronomy
Monash University, Melbourne, Australia

2023 - 2024:
Royal Society Wolfson Visiting Fellow, University of Oxford
Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics, Parks Road, Oxford, UK

  My Networks & Collaborations:

Spokesperson for the PYTHIA Collaboration 2021 - 2023
Deputy Spokesperson 2023 -
Leading the VINCIA Project
Science Project Leader for LHC@home-Test4Theory

  Student Projects

  My Teaching

 3rd Year / Honours / Masters / PhD:


  My Research:

Particle-Physics Theory and Phenomenology

  • Physics at Colliders (LHC, FCC, CEPC)
  • Resonance Production and Decays
  • Quantum Chromodynamics
  • Electromagnetic & Weak Corrections
  • Multi-Parton Interactions & Underlying Event (MPI, UE)
  • Hadronization (Lund Strings)
  • Hadron Decays

Computer Physics and Monte Carlo Event Generators

  • Event Generators: PYTHIA and VINCIA
  • Parton-Shower Algorithms
  • Models of Hadronization, Multi-Parton Interactions, Colour Reconnections, Strangeness Enhancement, ...
  • Event-Generator Validation: MCPlots
  • Citizen Science: LHC@home/Test4Theory
  • Markov-Chain and Monte-Carlo Algorithms
  • Optimization, Uncertainties, Tuning
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"We are the eyes through which the Universe observes itself, and knows itself divine." [D. Zindell]
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