Steven Lowette
Professor at Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Wetteren, East Flanders, Belgium
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Top SchoolSteven Lowette is a research professor and experimental particle physicist with 11 years of post-PhD experience focused on the CMS experiment at CERN, currently based in Wetteren, Belgium. He blends rigorous academic research with hands-on software development, contributing backend simulation code—such as integrating a sexaquark inelastic process—into the widely used CMS Offline Software (cmssw). His work spans detector-level physics, simulation modeling, and code maintenance, demonstrating both physics insight and practical engineering. Known for curiosity-driven exploration, he bridges collaborative international experiments and open-source scientific software to turn complex particle interactions into verifiable simulation tools.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Physics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Physics at Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Github Skills (12)
simulations10
simulation10
c-language10
physics10
cprogramming-language10
simulator10
offline-app9
cms9
cplus9
offline-web-app9
cpp9
cer8
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (3)
cms-sw/cmssw
May 2016 - Mar 2019
CMS Offline Software
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Physics Simulation Specialist
Back-end Developer & Physics Simulation SpecialistContributions:18 reviews, 34 commits, 10 PRs in 2 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Steven contributed to the integration of sexaquark simulation code within the CMS Offline Software. Their work included the implementation of a G4SQInelasticProcess class, demonstrating a focus on simulating particle interactions. Code cleanup and updates, addressing comments, further improved the code and its integration with the CMS software framework, potentially involving both physics modeling and software development skills.
cmscernweb-appc-plus-plusbackbonejs
lowette/cmssw
May 2016 - Sep 2017
CMS Offline Software
Contributions:24 commits, 39 pushes, 43 branches in 1 year 4 months
cmsoffline
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