Lattice Field Theory

Short Bio

• Since Apr 2018, Associate (W2) Professor in Lattice Field Theory at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
• From Dec 2013 to Mar 2018, Scientific Staff at CERN.
• From Sep 2012 to Jan 2018, Lecturer in Mathematics at Plymouth University.
• From Oct 2010 to Sep 2013, Research Fellow at CERN.
• From Apr 2008 to Sep 2010, Postdoc Research Assistant at Swansea Univeristy.
• Oct 2008, PhD in Physics at Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa.

Reasearch Interests

• Isospin–breaking corrections to hadronic observables
• Theoretical aspects of lattice gauge theories and QCD in particular
• Conformal gauge theories and strongly–coupled BSM models
• Lattice simulations and high performance computing

Research projects

• Applications of the gradient flow
• Finite-volume effects to the HVP contribution to the muon g-2
• QCD+QED simulations

Most Recent Publications

Matteo Di Carlo, Simone Bacchio, Erik Bäske, Alessandro De Santis, Antonio Evangelista, Roberto Frezzotti, Giuseppe Gagliardi, Lukas Holan, Vittorio Lubicz, Lorenzo Maio, et al.
First-principle evaluation of inclusive hadronic $τ$ decays in QCD+QED
arXiv: 2603.29016 [hep-lat]

Anian Altherr, Isabel Campos, Roman Gruber, Tim Harris, Francesca Margari, Marina Krstić Marinković, Letizia Parato, Agostino Patella, Sara Rosso, Paola Tavella
Baryon masses with C-periodic boundary conditions
arXiv: 2602.23910 [hep-lat]

Mika Lauk, Agostino Patella
Non-perturbative renormalization of the energy momentum tensor in the 2d O(3) nonlinear sigma model
arXiv: 2602.23078 [hep-lat]

A. Altherr, I. Campos, A. Cotellucci, R. Gruber, T. Harris, J. Komijani, F. Margari, M.K. Marinkovic, L. Parato, A. Patella, et al.
Comparing QCD+QED via full simulation versus the RM123 method: U-spin window contribution to ${a}_{\mu }^{\text{HVP}}$
JHEP 10 (2025) 158
arXiv: 2506.19770 [hep-lat]

Letizia Parato, Anian Altherr, Isabel Campos, Alessandro Cotellucci, Roman Gruber, Tim Harris, Javad Komijani, Jens Lücke, Marina Krstić Marinković, Agostino Patella, et al.
Update on the isospin breaking corrections to the HVP with CC-periodic boundary conditions
PoS LATTICE2024 (2025) 119
arXiv: 2502.14845 [hep-lat]

Yasumichi Aoki, Ed Bennett, Ryan Bignell, Kadir Utku Can, Takumi Doi, Steven Gottlieb, Rajan Gupta, Georg von Hippel, Issaku Kanamori, Andrey Kotov, et al.
Lattice gauge ensembles and data management
PoS LATTICE2024 (2025) 412
arXiv: 2502.08303 [hep-lat]

Anian Altherr, Isabel Campos, Alessandro Cotellucci, Roman Gruber, Tim Harris, Marina Krstić Marinković, Letizia Parato, Agostino Patella, Sara Rosso, Paola Tavella
Error Scaling of Sea Quark Isospin-Breaking Effects
PoS LATTICE2024 (2025) 116
arXiv: 2502.03145 [hep-lat]

Anian Altherr, Isabel Campos, Jonathan Coles, Alessandro Cotellucci, Juan Antonio Fernández De la Garza, Roman Gruber, Tim Harris, Javad Komijani, Jens Lücke, Stephanie Maier, et al.
O(a)-improved QCD+QED Wilson Dirac operator on GPUs
PoS LATTICE2024 (2025) 280
arXiv: 2502.02490 [hep-lat]

Sara Rosso, Anian Altherr, Isabel Campos, Alessandro Cotellucci, Roman Gruber, Tim Harris, Javad Komijani, Jens Lücke, Marina Krstić Marinković, Letizia Parato, et al.
Partially connected contributions to baryon masses in QCD+QED
PoS LATTICE2024 (2025) 427
arXiv: 2502.03961 [hep-lat]

Mika Lauk, Agostino Patella
Energy-momentum tensor in the 2d $O(3)$ non-linear sigma model on the lattice
PoS LATTICE2024 (2025) 462
arXiv: 2502.04845 [hep-lat]