Anisa Khatun is a postdoctoral researcher at INFN and the University of Foggia, specializing in ultra-peripheral collisions (UPC), with a focus on vector meson photoproduction. Her research background includes quarkonium and heavy-flavour production in hadronic collisions.
Anisa is currently the coordinator of the UPC Physics Analysis Group. She is involved in the ALICE Run 3 physics program and has strong expertise in the O2 analysis framework and in the development of machine-learning techniques, including GAN-based approaches for fast simulation. Anisa has a strong background in data-taking operations across ALICE Run 2 and Run 3, where she has served in all central shift roles, including as a DCS and ECS expert and as Shift Leader during data taking. She has also contributed to detector operation and data taking in the COMPASS experiment at CERN, as well as to the ALICE FoCal test beam campaign. In addition, she has been involved in data quality control and software development for UPC analyses, including asynchronous QC responsibilities and recent contributions to LHC beam-background studies in ALICE.
During her term, Anisa will coordinate data-taking operations for the collection of pp collisions with positive magnet polarities.
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