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

Cornelis Mommers

Marvin Schnubel

Higher order calculations in Quantum Chromodynamics
[c.marinissen]
Beta decays, light new physics
[cmommers]
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]

Pavlos Oikonomou

Tommaso Saracco

Alessio Vorona

Yağmur Zubaroğlu

Sterile neutrinos, EFT techniques, Neutrino physics
[p.oikonomou]
Infrared structure of Quantum Chromodynamics: LP & NLP resummation, high-order calculations, phenomenology
[tsaracco]
QCD, energy correlators, phenomenology
[avorona]
Flavour physics
[yagmur.zubaroglu]

 

Master students

Anton Bitsakakis

Gonzalo Puente Fernández de Bobadilla

Rowan van den Brink

Ioanna Marmani

QED and QCD massive form factors (Eric Laenen) NLP resummations (Eric Laenen) Disentangling new physics from QCD uncertainties (Juan Rojo) Warm inflation (Marieke Postma)

Elizabeth Muhsin

Gregor von Hirschhausen

Ian Huizenga

Ayush Murugan

Flavour physics (Robert Fleischer) Electric dipole moments and CP-violation (Jordy de Vries) Simulations in double beta decays (Jordy de Vries) Warm inflation (Marieke Postma)

Khoi Pham

Pepijn Vermeulen

Simon Versmissen

Paulina Hernandez Sainz

(Juan Rojo) (Wouter Waalewijn)

(Robert Fleischer)

(Juan Rojo)

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