Kierthika Chathirathas

Doctoral Research Project

Cosmological Signatures of Ultralight Dark Matter
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Thomas Schwetz-Mangold
Second Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Felix Kahlhöfer
Start: Mar 2024

Master's Thesis

Simulation-based Inference Methods for Future Beam Dump Experiments
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Felix Kahlhöfer
Second Supervisor: Prof. Torben Ferber
Jan 2024

Bachelor's Thesis

Resolution of the τ Vertex Reconstruction at Belle II
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Thomas Kuhr
Dec 2019

Publications

Conferences and Talks

• MU Days 2024 (Dec 12-13 2024)
  DESY Hamburg, Germany
  Talk: Finding excesses in model parameter space
• 9th International Workshop on Baryon and Lepton Number Violation (Oct 08-11 2024)
  KIT, Germany
  Support in Organisation
• DPG Spring Meeting 2024 (Mar 04-08 2024)
  KIT, Germany
• 18th Patras Workshop on Axions, WIMPs and WISPs (Jul 03-07 2023)
  University of Rijeka, Croatia

Summer Schools and Workshops

• Invisibles School 2024 (Jun 24-28 2024)
  University of Bologna, Italy
• KSETA PhD Workshop 2024 (Apr 10-12 2024)
  Bad Herrenalb, Germany

Teaching Experience

Course	Role	Date	Place
Physics Preliminary Course	Lecturer	Sep 2024	HKA
Introduction to Theoretical Cosmology	Head Tutor	Apr-Jul 2024	KIT
Physics Preliminary Course	Lecturer	Sep 2023	HKA
Modern Experimental Physics III (Particles and Hadrons)	Tutor	Apr-Jul 2023	KIT
Physics Preliminary Course	Tutor	Mar 2023	HKA
Modern Experimental Physics III (Particles and Hadrons)	Tutor	Apr-Jul 2021	KIT
Mathematics Preliminary Course	Tutor	Oct-Nov 2019	LMU

KSETA Courses

• CP violation in quarks and leptons (including axions and ALPs) (Dec 02-04 2024)
  Taught by Belen Gavela (UAM)
• How to Create Better Data Visualizations (Oct 17-18 2024)
  Taught by Eamonn Maguire (Oxford University)