We are pleased to offer our congratulations to Dr. Lucas Kotz. His thesis, entitled “A Novel Approach to Model the Pion Structure Using Advanced Polynomial Functions” was supervised by Professors Pavel Nadolsky and Fred Olness. We are pleased to recognize Lucas for his outstanding diligence and creativity. His ability to navigate and contribute to the highly complex xFitter codebase was truly impressive.
Lucas successfully extended the widely used xFitter framework by integrating custom modules he developed. These enhancements will benefit the high-energy physics community by enabling more precise and flexible uncertainty calculations, supporting a range of current and future experimental analyses.
