People

Staff

Robert Fleischer (head of the group)

Melissa van Beekveld

Eric Laenen [Nikhef/UvA/UU]

Marieke Postma

Flavour physics and CP violation as probes for new physics. Phenomenology at the LHC, quantum chromodynamics, resummation, parton showers, machine learning Phenomenology of the Standard Model, especially Quantum Chromodynamics. Early universe implications for particle physics.

Juan Rojo
[VU]

Jordy de Vries [UvA]

Wouter Waalewijn[UvA]

Quantum Chromodynamics and LHC phenomenology, proton structure, effective field theories, and Higgs boson physics. Beyond-the-Standard Model, effective field theories, fundamental symmetries, neutrinos. Higgs physics, jets, effective field theories, factorization and resummation.

 

Postdocs

Maximilian Attems

Ankita Budhraja

Lukáš Gráf

Juraj Klaric

Heavy-ion collisions,  Out-of-equilibrium quantum field theories,  thermalization, phase transitions, applied AdS/CFT, numerical GR Jets, effective field theories, QCD, heavy ion phenomenology Beyond-the-Standard-Model physics, astroparticle physics, neutrinos, effective field theories Dark matter, leptogenesis

Johannes Michel

Maria Laura Piscopo

Tanjona Rabemananjara

Effective field theories, precision QCD, LHC & EIC phenomenology Flavour physics Quantum Chromodynamics. Parton Distribution Functions. Resummation. Machine Learning for Particle Physics

 

PhD candidates

Robin van Bijleveld

Pieter Braat

Jelle Groot

Jaco ter Hoeve

Perturbative QCD, higher order calculations, resummation, factorisation Dark Matter from cosmological observables Flavour Physics Standard Model Effective Field Theory, machine learning in particle physics and beyond

Max Jaarsma

Giacomo Magni

Eleftheria Malami

Coenraad Marinissen

Parton physics on the lattice Standard Model Effective Field Theory, parton distribution functions with the NNPDF Collaboration Flavour Physics Higher order calculations in Quantum Chromodynamics

Heleen Mulder

Vaisakh Plakkot

Anders Rehult

Tommaso Saracco

Beyond the SM physics, CP violation, SMEFT, neutrino physics, axion physics BSM phenomenology using EFT techniques, sterile neutrinos and axions Flavour physics Infrared structure of Quantum Chromodynamics: LP & NLP resummation, high-order calculations, phenomenology

Tanishq Sharma [Torino]

Fragmentation and parton distribution functions using Machine Learning

 

Master students

Jason Arzinos

Dakshansh Chawda

Paul Hoegaerden

Jukka John

Sterile neutrinos and neutrinoless double beta decay (Jordy de Vries)

Flow-Oriented Perturbation Theory (Eric Laenen)

Five-loop Feynmann diagrams (Wouter Waalewijn)

Unravelling proton structure with machine learning (Juan Rojo)

Jelle Koorn

Sebastian Marquez

Isabelle Pels

Julian Schoenmakers

Forward neutrino fluxes in proton-proton collisions at the LHC (Juan Rojo)

Parton showers (Melissa van Beekveld)

QCD and jets (Wouter Waalewijn)

Electroweak Baryogenesis (Marieke Postma)

Thijmen Schouten

Alexander Schyns

Daria Trotsenko

Yağmur Zubaroğlu

Sterile neutrino dark matter (Marieke Postma)

Sterile neutrinos and neutrinoless double beta decay (Jordy de Vries)

Precision QCD, higher order calculations (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]

Effective Field Theories, Long-lived particles, Dark Matter