CV

Education

Ph.D. in Theoretical Particle Physics, University of Jyväskylä, 2021
- Advisors: Prof. Tuomas Lappi, Dr. Heikki Mäntysaari
M.S. in Theoretical Physics, University of Jyväskylä, 2017
B.S. in Physics, University of Jyväskylä, 2014

Work experience

2023–present: Postdoctoral researcher
- Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Jyväskylä
- Postdoc advisor: Prof. Joonas Ilmavirta
- About: We are collaborating on the mathematical theory foundations of the reconstruction approach to the dipole amplitude inference problem.
2021–2022 Postdoctoral researcher
- Department of Physics, University of Jyväskylä
- About: We finished the work on the NLO DDIS calculation, and achieved a breakthrough in Color Glass Condensate phenomenology with the inclusion of massive quarks.
2017–2021: Doctoral researcher
- Department of Physics, University of Jyväskylä
- Doctoral advisor: Prof. Tuomas Lappi
- About: Culmination of my PhD thesis was the NLO accuracy fits to HERA data in the Color Glass Condensate formalism.
Summer 2015: Scientific intern
- CERN
- Topic: Testing of machine learning in particle collision simulations and analysis.
- Supervisor: Dr. Sami Räsänen

Skills

Quantum Field Theory
- Lepton-proton Deep Inelastic Scattering in the Dipole Picture at leading and next-to-leading order.
- Color Glass Condensate formalism calculations on the light-cone.
- Diffractive Deep Inelastic Scattering.
- Fourier transformations of light-cone Fock state wavefunctions.
- Formulation of the reconstruction approach to the recovery of the dipole amplitude from DIS reduced cross section data.
Computational Physics
- Extensive experience in scientific computation
- High performance and cloud computing
- Lead development of research software used in peer reviewed articles: inversedipole, nlobkfitter.
Inverse Problems
- Construction of mathematical inverse problems questions in high-energy physics: indirect measurement of the dipole amplitude in the Dipole Picture.
- Inverse problems theory on a seismology problem on a manifold; Development of computational algebra software.
Programming
- C & C++
- Python
- Matlab
- Bash / Shell-script
- git & GitHub: github.com/hhannine
LaTeX

Publications

Reconstruction of the dipole amplitude in the dipole picture as a mathematical inverse problem

H. Hänninen, A. Kykkänen, H. Schlüter. (2025). "Reconstruction of the dipole amplitude in the dipole picture as a mathematical inverse problem" Phys.Rev.D 112 (2025) 9, 094026

Bayesian constraint of the initial condition for the Balitsky-Kovchegov equation at NLO

C. Casuga, H. Hänninen, H. Mäntysaari. (2025). "Bayesian constraint of the initial condition for the Balitsky-Kovchegov equation at NLO" DIS2025. e-Print: 2511.01394 [hep-ph].

Initial condition for the Balitsky-Kovchegov equation at next-to-leading order

C. Casuga, H. Hänninen, H. Mäntysaari. (2025). "Initial condition for the Balitsky-Kovchegov equation at next-to-leading order" Phys.Rev.D 112 (2025) 3, 034003

Proton structure functions in the dipole picture at next-to-leading order

G. Beuf, H. Hänninen, T. Lappi, Y. Mulian, H. Mäntysaari. (2023). "Diffractive Deep Inelastic Scattering in the Dipole Picture at Next-to-Leading Order" DIS2023. e-Print: 2307.06321 [hep-ph].

Proton structure functions in the dipole picture at next-to-leading order

H. Hänninen, H. Mäntysaari, R. Paatelainen, J. Penttala. (2023). "Proton structure functions in the dipole picture at next-to-leading order" DIS2023. e-Print: 2306.17707 [hep-ph].

Diffractive Structure Function in the Dipole Picture

G. Beuf, H. Hänninen, T. Lappi, Y. Mulian, H. Mäntysaari. (2023). "Diffractive Structure Function in the Dipole Picture" Acta Phys.Polon.Supp. 16 (2023) 5, 20.

Proton Structure Functions at Next-to-Leading Order in the Dipole Picture with Massive Quarks

H. Hänninen, H. Mäntysaari, R. Paatelainen, J. Penttala. (2022). "Proton Structure Functions at Next-to-Leading Order in the Dipole Picture with Massive Quarks" Phys.Rev.Lett. 130 (2023) 19, 19.

Diffractive deep inelastic scattering at NLO in the dipole picture: The qqg contribution

G. Beuf, H. Hänninen, T. Lappi, Y. Mulian, H. Mäntysaari. (2022). "Diffractive deep inelastic scattering at NLO in the dipole picture: The qqg contribution", Phys.Rev.D. 106 (2022) 9, 094014.

Deep inelastic scattering in the dipole picture at next-to-leading order

H. Hänninen. (2021). "Deep inelastic scattering in the dipole picture at next-to-leading order" PhD thesis, Jyväskylä U.

Dipole model at Next-to-Leading Order meets HERA data

G. Beuf, H. Hänninen, T. Lappi, H. Mäntysaari. (2021). "Dipole model at Next-to-Leading Order meets HERA data" PoS HardProbes2020 (2021) 101.

Color Glass Condensate at next-to-leading order meets HERA data

G. Beuf, H. Hänninen, T. Lappi, H. Mäntysaari. (2020). "Color Glass Condensate at next-to-leading order meets HERA data", Phys.Rev.D. 102 (2020) 074028.

Factorization of the soft gluon divergence from the dipole picture deep inelastic scattering cross sections at next-to-leading order

B. Ducloué, H. Hänninen, T. Lappi, Y. Zhu. (2017). "Factorization of the soft gluon divergence from the dipole picture deep inelastic scattering cross sections at next-to-leading order" PoS. DIS2018 (2018) 058.

One-loop corrections to light cone wave functions: the dipole picture DIS cross section

H. Hänninen, T. Lappi, R. Paatelainen. (2018). "Annals of Physics" Volume 393 358-412.

Deep inelastic scattering in the dipole picture at next-to-leading order

B. Ducloué, H. Hänninen, T. Lappi, Y. Zhu. (2017). "Deep inelastic scattering in the dipole picture at next-to-leading order" Phys. Rev. D. 96, 094017 (2017).

Talks

Reconstruction of the gluon density in the proton as an inverse problem

December 17, 2025

Conference talk at Inverse Days 2025, University of Helsinki Main Building, Fabianinkatu 33, 00170 Helsinki

Turning the dipole picture of deep inelastic scattering into a definition for an integral transform

November 28, 2025

Seminar talk at Centre of Excellence in Quark Matter seminar series, Center of Excellence in Quark Matter, Department of Physics, University of Jyväskylä, Finland

Towards indirect measurement of the gluonic structure of the proton

November 18, 2025

Seminar talk at Jyväskylä Inverse Problems Seminar, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, JYU

Inverse problems of indirectly measuring quarks and gluons

December 11, 2024

Conference talk at Inverse Days 2024, Lapland Hotel Oulu, Kirkkokatu 3, 90100 Oulu, Finland

Diffractive deep inelastic scattering at NLO in the dipole picture: the qqg contribution

March 29, 2023

Conference proceedings talk at XXX International Workshop on Deep-Inelastic Scattering and Related Subjects (DIS 2023), Hybrid

Progress towards full NLO accuracy and massive quarks in dipole picture fits to HERA data

April 06, 2022

Conference poster talk at XXIXth International Conference on Ultra-relativistic Nucleus-Nucleus Collisions (Quark Matter 2022), Online

Next-to-Leading Order Dipole Picture fits to HERA data

April 15, 2021

Conference proceedings talk at XXVIII International Workshop on Deep-Inelastic Scattering and Related Subjects (DIS 2021), Online

Color Glass Condensate at Next-to-Leading Order meets HERA data

January 12, 2021

Conference proceedings talk at The VI-th International Conference on the Initial Stages of High-Energy Nuclear Collisions (IS2021), Online

Dipole model at Next-to-Leading Order meets HERA data

June 01, 2020

Conference proceedings talk at Hard Probes 2020, Online

Deep Inelastic Scattering in the Dipole Picture at Next-to-Leading Order

October 02, 2018

Conference proceedings talk at Hard Probes 2018, Aix-Les-Bains, France

Deep Inelastic Scattering in the Dipole Picture at Next-to-Leading Order

April 17, 2018

Conference proceedings talk at XXVI International Workshop on Deep-Inelastic Scattering and Related Subjects (DIS 2018), Kobe, Japan

Deep Inelastic Scattering in the Dipole Picture at Next-to-Leading Order

March 22, 2018

Contributed conference talk at 8th International Conference on Physics Opportunities at an ElecTron-Ion-Collider, University of Regensburg, Germany

Service and leadership

Supervision of an ongoing undergraduate thesis (JYU, Nov. 2025–)

Henri Hänninen

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