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] |
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| 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
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Jordy de Vries [UvA/Nikhef] |
Wouter Waalewijn [UvA/Nikhef] |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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(Robert Fleischer) |
(Juan Rojo) |
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Jan-Willem van Holten |
Piet Mulders |
Bert Schellekens |
Jos Vermaseren |
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| 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 |
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| String theory, supergravity, black hole thermodynamics |
Affiliated staff
Wim Beenakker
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Gideon Koekoek
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Wilke van der Schee
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Keri Vos
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| 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
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Beatrice Bonga
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Daniël Boer
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Beatriz Gato Rivera
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| Effective Field Theories, Long-lived particles, Dark Matter | Gravity | Strong interactions | Quantum field theory, antimatter, gravitation, cosmology and quantum mechanics |














































