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 – 2017Scientist (permanent staff), TRIUMF, Vancouver, Canada
2008 – 2009Postdoctoral Fellow, TRIUMF, Vancouver, Canada
2005 – 2008Postdoctoral Fellow, Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung (GSI), Darmstadt
2005PhD, 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
  1. Arbeitsgruppenseminar zur Ab-initio theoretischen Kernphysik
    Instructor: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Sonia Bacca
  2. Mathematische Rechenmethoden
    Instructor: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Sonia Bacca

SoSe 2026

WS 2024/25

Moderne Theoretische Kernphysik
SS 2024Mathematischer Vorkurs
WS 2023/24Moderne Theoretische Kernphysik
WS 2022/23Moderne Theoretische Kernphysik
SS 2022Theoretische Physik 3. Qantenmechanik
WS 2021/22Moderne Theoretische Kernphysik
SS 2021Theoretische Physik 3, Quantenmechanik
WS 2020/21Theoretische Kernphysik
SS 2020Theoretische Physik 3: Quantenmechanik
WS 2019/20Theoretische Kernphysik
SS 2019Theoretische Physik 5: Höhere Quantenmechanik
WS 2018/19Theoretische Kernphysik
SS 2018Modern topics in nuclear theory