Univ.-Prof. Dr. Sonia Bacca

Professional and Scientific Career

2022: National Abilitation as Ordinary Professor, Italy
2019: Elected Fellow of the American Physical Society, US
2011: Discovery grant of early career award, Canada

Few- and many-body numerical methods
Applications of machine learning and artificial intelligence to nuclear physics
Electroweak physics
Muonic Atoms
Nuclear astrophysics

Vittorio Barlucchi, PhD student, 2025-present
Matus Rojik, PhD student, 2025-present
Miriam El Batchy,  PhD student, 2025-present
Immo Reis, PhD student, 2025-present
Tim Egert, MSc student, 2025-present
Dr. Weiguang Jiang, postdoc, 2022-present
Dr. Francesco Marino, postdoc, 2024-present

Dr. Joanna E. Sobczyk, postdoc, 2020-2025
Dr. Thomas Richardson, postdoc, 2022-2024
Francesca Bonaiti, PhD, 2020-2024
Simone Li Muli, PhD, 2019-2023
Dr. Bijaya Acharya, postdoc, 2017-2021, now General Motors, USA|
Hendrik Müsel, undergrad 2024
Lucas Hegert, untergrad, 2021                                                                                           
Dr. Johannes Simonis, postdoc, 2017-2020, now at Forschungszentrum Jülich
Kerem Akdogan, undergrad, 2020
Dennis Lay, undergrad, 2020
Charly Payne, PhD, 2018-1219
Dr. Vadim Lensky, postdoc, 2018-2019
Oscar Javier Hernandez, BSc, MSc, and PhD 2013-2019, now data scientist in Berlin
Sebastian Horvart, undergrad, 2018
Marcin Kalinowski, undergrad, 2018
Anna Poggialini, Bsc, 2018
Mirko Miorelli, MSc, PhD, 2013-2018, now data scientist in Vancouver

Data-driven analysis of dipole strength functions using artificial neural networks
W. Jiang, T. Egert,  S. Bacca , F. Bonaiti, P. von Neumann-Cosel
Phys. Rev. C 111, 5, L051308 (2025)
arxiv.:2412.02876 

Revisiting the helium isotope-shift puzzle with improved uncertainties from nuclear structure corrections
S.S. Li Muli, T.R. Richardson, S. Bacca
Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 032502 (2025)
arXiv:2401.13424

16O electroweak response functions from first principles
B. Acharya, J.E. Sobczyk, S. Bacca, G. Hagen, W. Jiang
Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 202501 (2025)
arXiv:2410.05962

Full list of publications from inSPIRE

SS 2025
Mathematischer Vorkurs

WS 2024/2025
Moderne Theoretische Kernphysik         

SS 2024
Mathematischer Vorkurs

WS 2023/2024
Moderne Theoretische Kernphysik         

WS 2022/2023
Moderne Theoretische Kernphysik

SoSe 2022
Theoretische Physik 3. Qantenmechanik

WS 2021/2022
Moderne Theoretische Kernphysik

SoSe 2021
Theoretische Physik 3, Quantenmechanik

WS 2020/2021
Theoretische Kernphysik

SoSe 2020
Theoretische Physik 3: Quantenmechanik

WS 2019/2020
Theoretische Kernphysik

SoSe 2019
Theoretische Physik 5: Höhere Quantenmechanik

WS 2018/2019
Theoretische Kernphysik

SS 2018
Modern topics in nuclear theory

Nuclear structure for electro-weak processes
Talk in parallel session at the International Nuclear Physics Conference, Daejeon, Korea, 2025

Computing the heart of matter
GSI Colloquium Darmstadt, Germany, 2023

Ab initio electroweak reactions
Keynote talk at Recent Progress in Many-Body Theory, University of North Carolina, USA, 2022

Nuclear structure corrections in light muonic atoms,
Colloquium at PSI, Villigen, Switzerland, 2020

Nuclear structure corrections in light muonic atoms
Talk in plenary session at the European Few-body conference, Surrey, UK,  2019

Nuclear dipole response function by ab initio theory
Talk in plenary session at the NN2018 conference, Tokyo, Japan,  2018

Electromagnetic response in nuclei: from few- to many-body systems
Talk at the 53rd Zakopane Conference on Nuclear Physics, Zakopane, Poland, 2018

Electromagnetic response in nuclei: from few- to many-body systems
Talk in plenary session at the ARIS Conference, Keystone (CO), US,  2017

Frontiers in ab-initio nuclear structure
Talk in plenary session at the INPC, Adelaide, Australia, 2016