Research Interests:
⦁ Few- and many-body numerical methods
⦁ Applications of machine learning and artificial intelligence to nuclear physics
⦁ Electroweak physics
⦁ Muonic Atoms
⦁ Nuclear astrophysics
| 2017 | Professor, JGU Mainz |
| 2009 – 2017 | Scientist (permanent staff), TRIUMF, Vancouver, Canada |
| 2008 – 2009 | Postdoctoral Fellow, TRIUMF, Vancouver, Canada |
| 2005 – 2008 | Postdoctoral Fellow, Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung (GSI), Darmstadt |
| 2005 | PhD, Co-tutelle Universita’ di Trento/ JGU Mainz |
| W. Jiang, T. Egert, S. Bacca , F. Bonaiti, P. von Neumann-Cosel, Data-driven analysis of dipole strength functions using artificial neural networks, Phys. Rev. C 111, 5, L051308 (2025) arXiv:2412.02876 |
| S.S. Li Muli, T.R. Richardson, S. Bacca, Revisiting the helium isotope-shift puzzle with improved uncertainties from nuclear structure corrections, Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 032502 (2025) arXiv:2401.13424 |
| B. Acharya, J.E. Sobczyk, S. Bacca, G. Hagen, W. Jiang, 16O electroweak response functions from first principles, Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 202501 (2025) arXiv:2410.05962 |
| T. Miyagi, X. Cao, R. Seutin, S. Bacca, K. Kebeler, J.D. Holt, R.F. Garcia Ruiz, A. Schwenk, Impact of two-body currents on magnetic dipole moments of nuclei, Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 23, 232503 (2024) arXiv:2311.14383 |
| B. Acharya, B.S. Hu, S. Bacca, G. Hagen, P. Navratil, T. Papenbrock, The magnetic dipole transition in 48Ca, Phys. Rev. Lett. 132 , 23, 232504 (2024) arXiv:2311.11438 |
- 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
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Arbeitsgruppenseminar zur Ab-initio theoretischen Kernphysik
Instructor: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Sonia Bacca -
Mathematische Rechenmethoden
Instructor: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Sonia Bacca
SoSe 2026
| WS 2024/25 | Moderne Theoretische Kernphysik |
| SS 2024 | Mathematischer Vorkurs |
| WS 2023/24 | Moderne Theoretische Kernphysik |
| WS 2022/23 | Moderne Theoretische Kernphysik |
| SS 2022 | Theoretische Physik 3. Qantenmechanik |
| WS 2021/22 | Moderne Theoretische Kernphysik |
| SS 2021 | Theoretische Physik 3, Quantenmechanik |
| WS 2020/21 | Theoretische Kernphysik |
| SS 2020 | Theoretische Physik 3: Quantenmechanik |
| WS 2019/20 | Theoretische Kernphysik |
| SS 2019 | Theoretische Physik 5: Höhere Quantenmechanik |
| WS 2018/19 | Theoretische Kernphysik |
| SS 2018 | Modern topics in nuclear theory |