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Research

This is a combination of my current research with work from my earlier career in experimental nuclear physics and nuclear astrophysics.

Articles

  1. S. Sasikumar, J.M. Carceller, W. Deconinck, M. Fila, B. Francois, F.D. Gaede, G. Ganis, X. Huang, S. Joosten, S.H. Ko, W. Li, T. Li, T. Lin, T. Madlener, L. Reichenbach, A. Sailer, A. Tolosa-Delgado, X. Zhang and J. Zou
    Five years of Key4hep - Towards production readiness and beyond
    PoS ICHEP2024, 1029 (2025)
  2. K. C. Z. Haverson, R. Smith, A. Shenfield, R. Fortulan, M. Ćwiok, W. Dominik, A. Fijałkowska, M. Fila, Z. Janas, A. Kalinowski, K. Kierzkowski, M. Kuich, C. Mazzocchi, W. Okliński, M. Zaremba, M. Gai, D. K. Schweitzer, S. R. Stern, S. Finch, U. Friman-Gayer, S. R. Johnson, T. M. Kowalewski, D. L. Balabanski, C. Matei, A. Rotaru, R. A. M. Allen, M. R. Griffiths, Tz. Kokalova, S. Pirrie, P. Santa Rita Alcibia, C. Wheldon
    A ResNeXt50-based convolution neural network for nuclear reaction classification in an active target TPC detector
    Il Nuovo Cimento 48 (1), 17 (2025)
  3. J. Benito, L. M. Fraile, A. Korgul, M. Piersa-Siłkowska, A. Jaries, M. Stryjczyk, E. Adamska, R. Álvarez-Rodríguez, A. N. Andreyev, A. E. Barzakh, G. Benzoni, T. Berry, M. J. G. Borge, M. Carmona, K. Chrysalidis, C. Costache, J. G. Cubiss, T. Day Goodacre, H. De Witte, T. Eronen, D. V. Fedorov, V. N. Fedosseev, G. Fernández-Martínez, A. Fijałkowska, M. Fila, H. Fynbo, D. Galaviz, P. Galve, M. García-Díez, Z. Ge, P. T. Greenlees, R. Grzywacz, C. Henrich, M. Huyse, P. Ibáñez, A. Illana, Z. Janas, J. Jolie, D. S. Judson, A. Kankainen, V. Karayonchev, M. Kicińska-Habior, J. Konki, J. Kurcewicz, I. Lazarus, R. Lică, A. López-Montes, M. Lund, H. Mach, M. Madurga, N. Mărginean, R. Mărginean, I. Marroquín, B. A. Marsh, M. C. Martínez, C. Mazzocchi, K. Miernik, C. Mihai, R. E. Mihai, M. Mougeot, J. R. Murias, E. Nácher, A. Negret, B. Olaizola, R. D. Page, S. V. Paulauskas, S. Pascu, A. Perea, V. Pucknell, A. Raggio, P. Rahkila, C. Raison, E. Rapisarda, J.-M. Régis, K. Rezynkina, F. Rotaru, S. Rothe, J. Ruotsalainen, D. Sánchez-Parcerisa, V. Sánchez-Tembleque, K. Schomacker, G. S. Simpson, Ch. Sotty, L. Stan, M. Stănoiu, O. Tengblad, A. Turturica, J. M. Udías, P. Van Duppen, V. Vedia, A. Villa-Abaunza, S. Viñals, R. Wadsworth, W. B. Walters, N. Warr, IDS and IGISOL Collaboration
    Detailed structure of 131Sn populated in the decay of isomerically purified 131In states
    Physical Review C 110, 014328 (2024)
  4. M. Ćwiok, D. Wojciech, A. Fijałkowska, M. Fila, Z. Janas, A. Kalinowski, K. Kierzkowski, M. Kuich, C. Mazzocchi, W. Okliński, P. Podlaski, M. Zaremba, M. Gai, S. R. Stern, D. K. Schweitzer and D. L. Balabanski.
    Warsaw Active-Target TPC: A new detector for photonuclear reactions studies at astrophysical energies
    EPJ Web of Conferences 290, 01004 (2023)
  5. M. Kuich, M. Ćwiok, W. Dominik, A. Fijałkowska, M. Fila, A. Giska, Z. Janas, A. Kalinowski, K. Kierzkowski, C. Mazzocchi, W. Okliński, M. Zaremba, D. Grządziel, J. Lekki, W. Królas, A. Kulińska, A. Kurowski, W. Janik, T. Pieprzyca, Z. Szklarz, M. Scholz, M. Turzański, U. Wiącek, U. Woźnicka, A. Caciolli, M. Campostrini, V. Rigato, M. Gai, H.O.U. Fynbo
    Active Target TPC for Study of Photonuclear Reactions at Astrophysical Energies
    Acta Phys. Pol. B Proc. Suppl. 16, 4-A17 (2023)
  6. M. Ćwiok, W. Dominik, A. Fijałkowska, M. Fila, Z. Janas, A. Kalinowski, K. Kierzkowski, M. Kuich, C. Mazzocchi, W. Okliński, M. Zaremba, M. Gai, D. K. Schweitzer, S. R. Stern, S. Finch, U. Friman-Gayer, S. R. Johnson, T. M. Kowalewski, D. L. Balabanski, C.Matei, A. Rotaru, K. C.Z. Haverson, Robin Smith, R. A.M. Allen, M. R. Griffiths, S. Pirrie and P. S. R. Alcibia
    Studies of photo-nuclear reactions at astrophysical energies with an active-target TPC
    EPJ Web of Conferences 279, 04002 (2023)
  7. J. Benito, L. M. Fraile, A. Korgul, M. Piersa, E. Adamska, A. N. Andreyev, R. Álvarez-Rodríguez, A. E. Barzakh, G. Benzoni, T. Berry, M. J. G. Borge, M. Carmona, K. Chrysalidis, C. Costache, J. G. Cubiss, T. Day Goodacre, H. De Witte, D. V. Fedorov, V. N. Fedosseev, G. Fernández-Martínez, A. Fijałkowska, M. Fila, H. Fynbo, D. Galaviz, P. Galve, M. García-Díez, P. T. Greenlees, R. Grzywacz, L. J. Harkness-Brennan, C. Henrich, M. Huyse, P. Ibáñez, A. Illana, Z. Janas, J. Jolie, D. S. Judson, V. Karayonchev, M. Kicińska-Habior, J. Konki, J. Kurcewicz, I. Lazarus, R. Lică, A. López-Montes, M. Lund, H. Mach, M. Madurga, I. Marroquín, B. Marsh, M. C. Martínez, C. Mazzocchi, N. Mărginean, R. Mărginean, K. Miernik, C. Mihai, R. E. Mihai, E. Nácher, A. Negret, B. Olaizola, R. D. Page, S. V. Paulauskas, S. Pascu, A. Perea, V. Pucknell, P. Rahkila, C. Raison, E. Rapisarda, J.-M. Régis, K. Rezynkina, F. Rotaru, S. Rothe, D. Sánchez-Parcerisa, V. Sánchez-Tembleque, K. Schomacker, G. S. Simpson, Ch. Sotty, L. Stan, M. Stănoiu, M. Stryjczyk, O. Tengblad, A. Turturica, J. M. Udías, P. Van Duppen, V. Vedia, A. Villa-Abaunza, S. Viñals, W. B. Walters, R. Wadsworth, N. Warr
    Detailed spectroscopy of doubly magic 132Sn
    Phys. Rev. C 102, 014328 (2020)
  8. A. Tucholski, Ch. Droste, J. Srebrny, C. M. Petrache, J. Skalski, P. Jachimowicz, M. Fila, T. Abraham, M. Kisieliński, A. Kordyasz, M. Kowalczyk, J. Kownacki, T. Marchlewski, P. J. Napiorkowski, L. Próchniak, J. Samorajczyk-Pyśk, A. Stolarz, A. Astier, B. F. Lv, E. Dupont, S. Lalkovski, P. Walker, E. Grodner, Z. Patyk
    Lifetime of the recently identified 10+ isomeric state at 3279 keV in the 136Nd nucleus
    Phys. Rev. C 100, 014330 (2019)
  9. M. Piersa, A. Korgul, L. M. Fraile, J. Benito, E. Adamska, A. N. Andreyev, R. Álvarez-Rodríguez, A. E. Barzakh, G. Benzoni, T. Berry, M. J. G. Borge, M. Carmona, K. Chrysalidis, J. G. Correia, C. Costache, J. G. Cubiss, T. Day Goodacre, H. De Witte, D. V. Fedorov, V. N. Fedosseev, G. Fernández-Martínez, A. Fijałkowska, M. Fila, H. Fynbo, D. Galaviz, P. T. Greenlees, R. Grzywacz, L. J. Harkness-Brennan, C. Henrich, M. Huyse, A. Illana, Z. Janas, K. Johnston, D. S. Judson, V. Karanyonchev, M. Kicińska-Habior, J. Konki, J. Kurcewicz, I. Lazarus, R. Lica, H. Mach, M. Madurga, I. Marroquín, B. Marsh, M. C. Martínez, C. Mazzocchi, N. Marginean, R. Marginean, K. Miernik, C. Mihai, E. Nácher, A. Negret, B. Olaizola, R. D. Page, S. Paulaskalas, S. Pascu, A. Perea, V. Pucknell, P. Rahkila, E. Rapisarda, J.-M. Régis, F. Rotaru, S. Rothe, V. Sánchez-Tembleque, G. Simpson, Ch. Sotty, L. Stan, M. Stanoiu, M. Stryjczyk, O. Tengblad, A. Turturica, J. M. Udías, P. Van Duppen, V. Vedia, A. Villa, S. Viñals, R. Wadsworth, W. B. Walters, N. Warr
    β decay of 133In: γ emission from neutron-unbound states in 133Sn
    Phys. Rev. C 99, 024304 (2019)
  10. M. Piersa, A. Korgul, L. M. Fraile, J. Benito, E. Adamska, R. Álvarez, A. E. Barzakh, G. Benzoni, T. Berry, M. J. G. Borge, M. Carmona, K. Chrysalidis, G. Correia, C. Costache, T. Day Goodacre, D. V. Fedorov, V. N. Fedosseev, G. Fernández-Martínez, M. Fila, D. Galaviz, R. Grzywacz, C. Henrich, A. Illana, Z. Janas, K. Johnston, V. Karanyonchev, M. Kicińska-Habior, R. Lica, M. Madurga, I. Marroquín, B. Marsh, C. Martínez, C. Mazzocchi, K. Miernik, C. Mihai, B. Olaizola, S. Paulaskalas, J.-M. Régis, S. Rothe, V. Sánchez-Tembleque, G. Simpson, Ch. Sotty, L. Stan, M. Stanoiu, M. Stryjczyk, A. Turturica, J. M. Udías, V. Vedia, A. Villa, W. B. Walters
    Investigation of Low-lying States in 133Sn Populated in the beta Decay of 133In Using Isomer-selective Laser Ionization
    Acta Phys. Pol. B 49, 523-528 (2019)
  11. J. Srebrny, L. Próchniak, M. Fila
    Question of gamma-softness of a Core and Possible Wobbling in the Light of Rich Experimental Data on 119I
    Acta Phys. Pol. B Proceedings Supplement 11, 157-166 (2018)

Conference talks and posters

  1. Static compilation of Julia packages for integration with existing HEP codebases: a case study with JetReconstruction.jl
    23rd International Workshop on Advanced Computing and Analysis Techniques in Physics Research (ACAT 2025), Hamburg, Germany 08-12.09.2025
  2. Demonstrator for HEP event-processing framework in Julia: performance perspective
    JuliaHEP 2025 Workshop, Princeton University, USA, 28-31.07.2025
  3. R&D towards heterogeneous frameworks for Future Experiments
    CHEP 2024 Conference on Computing in High Energy and Nuclear Physics, Cracow, Poland, 19.10-25.10.2024
  4. Demonstrator for HEP event-processing framework in Julia
    JuliaHEP 2024 Workshop, CERN, Switzerland, 30.09-04.10.2024
  5. Toward event reconstruction in an active-target TPC with strip readout
    New Trends in Nuclear Physics Detectors (NTNPD-2021), Heavy Ion Laboratory at the University of Warsaw, Poland, 25-27.10.2021
  6. Study of astrophysics relevant nuclear reactions with an active-target Time Projection Chamber
    Euroschool on Exotic Beams 2021, 13-17.09.2021
  7. ELITPC - an active target TPC for studying nuclear reactions at astrophysical energies
    International Conference on Technology and Instrumentation in Particle Physics TIPP2021, TRIUMF, Canada, 24-29.05.2021
  8. Toward studying photonuclear reactions with active-target TPC
    CPAD Instrumentation Frontier Workshop 2021, Stony Brook University, USA, 17-23.03.2021
  9. ELITPC detector for nuclear astrophysics studies
    Sympozjum Młodych Naukowców Wydziału Fizyki Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego, University of Warsaw, Poland, 24-28.08.2020
  10. ELITPC detector for nuclear astrophysics studies: Detector Control System
    Pierwsza Wirtualna Konferencja Naukowa Kampusu Ochota, University of Warsaw, Poland, 30.06-1.07.2020

Theses

  • PhD in Physics, University of Warsaw, Poland, 2024
    Study of 16O(γ,α)12C nuclear reaction with the Warsaw TPC detector
  • MSc in Physics, University of Warsaw, Poland, 2019
    Detector Control System of the ELITPC chamber in experiments with gamma beams - the software framework
    Summa cum laude
  • BSc in Physics, University of Warsaw, Poland, 2017
    Study of β-decay of the neutron-rich isotope 133In
    Individual study programme

Seminars

  1. Investigating photodisintegration reactions with the Warsaw TPC
    Nuclear Physics Seminar, Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw, 15.06.2023
  2. ELITPC: the first experiments with the full-scale prototype of an active-target Time Projection Chamber
    High Energy Physics Seminar, Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw, 26.11.2021
  3. ELITPC: toward studying nuclear reactions at astrophysical energies
    High Energy Physics Seminar, Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw, 08.05.2020

Workshops

  1. JuliaHEP 2025 Workshop, Princeton University, USA, 28-31.07.2025
  2. GPU programming Part 2: Advanced GPU Programming, JSC, 07-11.07.2025
  3. EuroCC2 Multi-GPU Programming Bootcamp, 17-18.06.2025
  4. Node-Level Performance Engineering, HLRS, 03-06.06.2025
  5. Hybrid Programming in HPC - MPI+X, HLRS, 21-23.01.2025
  6. 8th FCC Physics Workshop, CERN, 13-16.01.2025
  7. JuliaHEP 2024 Workshop, CERN, 30.09-04.10.2024
  8. ChapelCon '24, 05-07.06.2024
  9. Efficient Parallel Programming with GASPI, HLRS, 27-28.05.2024
  10. AMD Instinct™ GPU Training, HLRS, 25-28.09.2023
  11. Introduction to oneAPI, SYCL2020 and OpenMP offloading, HLRS, 13-15.09.2023
  12. EuroCC N-Ways to GPU Programming Bootcamp, 15-16.05.2023
  13. NVIDIA/HLRS SciML GPU Bootcamp, 26-27.04.2023
  14. Introduction to parallel programming: openMP GPU offload, ICM University of Warsaw, 15.12.2022
  15. 3rd Terascale School of Machine Learning (Part 2: advanced topics), DESY, 10-12.10.2022
  16. ISOTDAQ 2022 - International School of Trigger and Data AcQuisition, INFN, 13-23.06.2022
  17. Introduction to parallel programming in openMP/MPI, ICM University of Warsaw, 09.06.2022
  18. 10th Thematic CERN School of Computing (tCSC 2022), Institut d’Études Scientifiques de Cargèse (IESC), 01-07.05.2022
  19. Euroschool on Exotic Beams 2021, 13-17.09.2021
  20. International Summer School on Deep Learning 2021, Gdansk University of Technology, 05-09.07.2021
  21. RD51 Collaboration Meeting and the topical workshop on "New Horizons in TPCs", Galician Institute of High Energy Physics (IGFAE), 05-09.10.2020
  22. 15th annual Fermilab-CERN Hadron Collider Physics Summer School, Fermilab, 10-21.08.2020
  23. Sixth Machine Learning in High Energy Physics Summer School 2020, 16-30.07.2020
  24. 3rd GOSIA Workshop, Heavy Ion Laboratory at the University of Warsaw, 09-11.04.2018
  25. Polish Workshop on Acceleration and Applications of Heavy Ions, Heavy Ion Laboratory at the University of Warsaw 23-29.10.2016