Santiago Lopez

Theoretische Physik II,

02.007 Emil-Hilb-Weg 22,

97074 Würzburg

Born and raised in Guadalajara, Mexico, I emigrated to Germany at 18 to pursue a higher education in physics. After completing the Ausländerstudienkolleg at the HTWG in Konstanz, I was awarded a BSc and MSc by the University of Tübingen. There, I completed my PhD in the group of Prof. B. Jäger.

The topic of my dissertation was the calculation of QCD corrections at NLO to vector-boson scattering with three jets at the LHC, matched to a Parton Shower.

Currently, I am working as a postdoctoral researcher in the group of Prof. A. Denner at the University of Würzburg. I am an author of MoCaNLO, a parton-level Monte Carlo integrator for high-multiplicity high-energy processes at NLO.

news

Feb 23, 2026	Our parton-level Monte Carlo integrator MoCaNLO was published
Dec 5, 2024	Defended my PhD thesis “NLO QCD Corrections to \(W^+ W^+\) Scattering at the LHC with Three Jets Matched to a Parton Shower”
Dec 1, 2023	Moved to Würzburg to start working alongside Prof. Denner at TPII
Dec 16, 2021	Submitted my first publication! Check it out on the “publications” tab

selected publications

NLO QCD Corrections to W+W+ Scattering at the LHC with Three Jets Matched to a Parton Shower

Lopez Portillo Chavez, Santiago

2025

Bib

@phdthesis{LopezPortilloChavez:2025vwu,
  author = {Lopez Portillo Chavez, Santiago},
  title = {{NLO QCD Corrections to W+W+ Scattering at the LHC with Three Jets Matched to a Parton Shower}},
  doi = {10.15496/publikation-102874},
  school = {U. Tubingen},
  year = {2025},
  selected = {true},
  bibtex_show = {true}
}

MoCaNLO: a Monte Carlo integrator for NLO calculations

Denner, A., Lombardi, D., Lopez Portillo Chavez, S., Pellen, M., and Pelliccioli, G.

Feb 2026

Bib

@article{Denner:2026phn,
  author = {Denner, A. and Lombardi, D. and Lopez Portillo Chavez, S. and Pellen, M. and Pelliccioli, G.},
  title = {{MoCaNLO: a Monte Carlo integrator for NLO calculations}},
  eprint = {2602.19842},
  archiveprefix = {arXiv},
  primaryclass = {hep-ph},
  reportnumber = {COMETA-2026-03, FR-PHENO-26-04},
  month = feb,
  year = {2026},
  selected = {true},
  bibtex_show = {true}
}