People

To find the email address of Nikhef theory staff, postdoc and PhD students: email prefix is indicated by square brackets, full email becomes [prefix]@nikhef.nl.

Staff

Melissa van Beekveld [Nikhef]	Robert Fleischer [Nikhef/VU]	Eric Laenen [Nikhef/UvA/UU]	Marieke Postma [Nikhef/RU]

Quantum chromodynamics, resummation, parton showers [mbeekvel]	Flavour physics and CP violation as probes for new physics [rfleisch]	Phenomenology of the Standard Model, especially Quantum Chromodynamics [eric.laenen]	Head of the group Early universe implications for particle physics [mpostma]

Juan Rojo [VU/Nikhef]	Jordy de Vries [UvA/Nikhef]	Wouter Waalewijn [UvA/Nikhef]

Quantum Chromodynamics and LHC phenomenology, proton structure, effective field theories, and Higgs boson physics [rojo]	Beyond-the-Standard Model, effective field theories, fundamental symmetries, neutrinos [jordydv]	Deputy head of the group Higgs physics, jets, effective field theories, factorization and resummation [wouterw]

Postdocs

Maximilian Attems	Ankita Budhraja	Elie Hammou	Philipp Klose

Heavy-ion collisions, Out-of-equilibrium quantum field theories, thermalization, phase transitions, applied AdS/CFT, numerical GR [mattems]	Jets, effective field theories, QCD, heavy ion phenomenology [abudhraj]	Beyond the Standard Model, Effective Field Theories, proton structure, simultaneous determination of BSM and SM parameters, flavour physics, neutrinos [ehammou]	Particle cosmology, out-of-equilibruim QFT, hidden particle phenomenology [pklose]

Coenraad Marinissen	Johannes Michel	Maria Laura Piscopo	Marvin Schnubel

Higher order calculations in Quantum Chromodynamics [c.marinissen]	Effective field theories, precision QCD, LHC & EIC phenomenology [jmichel]	Flavour physics [mpiscopo]	Effective field theories, precision QED & QCD, power corrections, axions & ALPs [m.schnubel]

PhD candidates

Robin van Bijleveld	Lemonia Gialidi	Jelle Groot	Jelle Koorn

Perturbative QCD, higher order calculations, resummation, factorisation [rbijleve]	Beyond the SM phenomenology, EFT techniques, sterile neutrinos [lgialidi]	Beyond the SM phenomenology, EFT techniques, sterile neutrinos [j.groot]	Forward neutrino fluxes in proton-proton collisions [jkoorn]

Peter Krack	Kamiel Laurent	Heleen Mulder	Martijn Pellegrom

Neutrino phenomenology at the LHC [peter.krack]	NNPDF and SMEFIT [k.laurent]	Beyond the SM physics, CP violation, SMEFT, neutrino physics, axion physics [hmulder]	Electroweak Baryogenesis, particle cosmology, beyond-the-standard-model physics [m.pellegrom]

Vaisakh Plakkot	Tommaso Saracco	Alessio Vorona	Yağmur Zubaroğlu

BSM phenomenology using EFT techniques, sterile neutrinos and axions [vplakkot]	Infrared structure of Quantum Chromodynamics: LP & NLP resummation, high-order calculations, phenomenology [tsaracco]	QCD, energy correlators, phenomenology [avorona]	Flavour physics [yagmur.zubaroglu]

Master students

Job Emans	Phile Govaert	Paulina Hernandez	Elizabeth Muhsin

(Jordy de Vries)	(Jordy de Vries)	(Juan Rojo)	Flavour physics (Robert Fleischer)

Shiyang Ming	Vlad Ovcharenko	Ayush Murugan	Prince Raj Yadav

Flavour physics (Robert Fleischer)	Cosmology (Marieke Postma)	Warm inflation (Marieke Postma)	Flavour physics (Robert Fleischer)

Wopke Telman	Pepijn Vermeulen	Chenxi Zhang

Fingerprinting UV scenarios with global SMEFT fits (Juan Rojo)	(Wouter Waalewijn)	Flavour physics (Robert Fleischer)

Emiriti

Jan-Willem van Holten	Piet Mulders	Bert Schellekens	Jos Vermaseren

Classical and quantum gravity, cosmology and supersymmetry	Quantum Chromodynamics with emphasis on the quark and gluon polarization in hadrons	String theory, and especially the landscape of string theory vacua	Phenomenology and methodology of Perturbative Quantum Field Theory, in particular QCD, FORM

Bernard de Wit

String theory, supergravity, black hole thermodynamics

Affiliated staff

Wim Beenakker [RU]	Gideon Koekoek [UM]	Wilke van der Schee [UU & CERN]	Keri Vos [UM]

Electroweak phenomenology, heavy quarks and supersymmetric QCD, dark energy models	Application of quantum computing for investigating gravitational wave signals. Outreach for gravitational waves in NL and Europe	Heavy ion collisions, quark-gluon plasma, relativistic hydrodynamics and gauge/gravity duality	Flavour physics and CP violation within the Standard Model and beyond

Susanne Westhoff [RU]	Beatrice Bonga [RU]	Daniël Boer [RUG]	Beatriz Gato Rivera [IFF, CSIC]

Effective Field Theories, Long-lived particles, Dark Matter	Gravity	Strong interactions	Quantum field theory, antimatter, gravitation, cosmology and quantum mechanics