Aurelia Zuchanke

Using lattice based simulation to produce state of the art precision QCD flavour physics predictions, with particular focus on the newly accessible bottom quark sector.

Aurelia graduated with a BSc in Physics from The University of Bristol in July 2020. Her degree focused on theoretical, particle, and computational physics. It was capped with a final year project on the simulation of light driven micromachines, conducted under Dr Simon Hanna. Whilst at Bristol, she also undertook a summer project in the department's particle physics group, focusing on profiling the proposed CLIC collider at CERN. In addition, she was selected as a CERN openlab summer student, but the program was largely cancelled due to COVID-19.

After that, she moved to Imperial College London to study Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces. After interruption due to illness, she graduated in September 2025. Her studies focused on gauge theories, The Standard Model, and path integral formalism quantum field theory. Her dissertation was on Laplace filtering as a tool to improve Lattice QCD data extraction. She was supervised externally by Dr Tobias Tsang and internally by Professor Arttu Rajantie.

At present, Aurelia is a PhD student in The University of Liverpool's Theoretical Physics group. The primary supervisor is Dr Tobias Tsang, with secondary supervision from Professor Martin Gorbahn and Professor Simon Hand. The project is in the field of Lattice Quantum Chromodynamics. Particularly focusing on bottom quark physics, which have only more recently become well accessible via lattice methods. Precision calculations for bottom quarks are hotly anticipated by the wider particle physics community, as they are potentially more sensitive to novel high energy physics.