Research profile
Strongly interacting matter under extreme conditions
My research focuses on relativistic heavy-ion collisions and the properties of strongly interacting matter under extreme conditions. The primary goal is to understand the QCD phase diagram, the nature of the quark–hadron transition, and the possible existence of a critical point. By combining theory, phenomenology, innovative data-analysis methods, and precision measurements, I seek to establish a quantitative connection between experimental observations and the underlying dynamics of QCD matter.
Membership in Experimental Collaborations
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Selected Invited Lectures
Recent and representative talks
- MIT invited colloquium: Deciphering Phase Transitions in Strongly Interacting QCD Matter.
- Berkeley invited lecture: Decoding the QCD Phase Transition via Cumulants of Particle Multiplicity Distributions.
- Quark Matter plenary: invited plenary presentation on event-by-event fluctuations.
- SQM and CPOD: repeated invited plenary and invited talks on fluctuations, correlations, and QCD phase structure.
Selected Publications
Representative papers
- Fuzzy logic for reconstructing arbitrary moments of multiplicity distributions, Phys. Rev. C 110, 064910 (2024).
- The imprint of conservation laws on correlated particle production, JHEP 08, 113 (2024).
- Controlling volume fluctuations for studies of critical phenomena in nuclear collisions, Nucl. Phys. A 1050, 122924 (2024).
- Bridging the gap between event-by-event fluctuation measurements and theory predictions, Nucl. Phys. A 960, 114–130 (2017).
Scientific Service and Organizational Activities
Collaboration Responsibilities
- Physics Coordinator, HADES Collaboration (2025–present)
Organization of Workshops & Conferences
- Quark Matter 2025, XXXI International Conference on Ultra-relativistic Nucleus–Nucleus Collisions, 2025 (LOC)
- Fluctuations and Correlations of Conserved Charges in Nuclear Collisions – Challenges and Future Prospects, EMMI Rapid Reaction Task Force, 2023
- The International Conference on Critical Point and Onset of Deconfinement, CPOD 2022
- The International Conference on Critical Point and Onset of Deconfinement, CPOD 2021
- Critical Fluctuations near the QCD Phase Boundary in Relativistic Nuclear Collisions, 2017