Anar Rustamov

Research profile spanning relativistic heavy-ion collisions, QCD matter, fluctuation observables, particle identification methods, and physics analysis in large international collaborations.

• 2024– Physics Coordinator, HADES
• 2019– Physics Working Group Convener, E-by-E Fluctuations, CBM
• 2016–2020 Physics Analysis Group Convener, E-by-E Fluctuations, ALICE
• 2016– Team Leader, Azerbaijan/Baku group in ALICE

• 2025 Privatdozent, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt
• 2024 Habilitation, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt
• 2018 Dr. of Physics Habilitation, Baku, Azerbaijan
• 2003–2006 Technische Universität Darmstadt — PhD, “Exclusive η meson reconstruction in p-p collisions at 2.2 GeV with the HADES Spectrometer and high-resolution tracking”
• 1998–2000 Baku State University — Master degree, Theoretical and Mathematical Physics
• 1994–1998 Baku State University — Bachelor degree, Physics

• Novel technique for analyzing experimental data with incomplete particle identification; used in ALICE, NA49, NA61/SHINE and HADES.
• Innovative tools for confronting experimental results with theoretical predictions; used in ALICE, STAR and HADES.
• Procedure for calculating baselines for experimental measurements; used in ALICE, STAR and HADES.

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Phenomenology and theory

1. A. Rustamov, “Fuzzy logic for reconstructing arbitrary moments of multiplicity distributions,” Phys. Rev. C 110 (2024) 064910.
2. P. Braun-Munzinger, K. Redlich, A. Rustamov, J. Stachel, “The imprint of conservation laws on correlated particle production,” JHEP 08 (2024) 113.
3. R. Holzmann, V. Koch, A. Rustamov, J. Stroth, “Controlling volume fluctuations for studies of critical phenomena in nuclear collisions,” Nucl. Phys. A 1050 (2024) 122924.
4. P. Braun-Munzinger, B. Friman, K. Redlich, A. Rustamov, J. Stachel, “Establishing a non-critical baseline for fluctuation measurements,” Nucl. Phys. A 1008 (2021) 122141.
5. P. Braun-Munzinger, A. Rustamov, J. Stachel, “Bridging the gap between event-by-event fluctuation measurements and theory predictions in relativistic nuclear collisions,” Nucl. Phys. A 960 (2017) 114–130.

Experiments, principal author

1. ALICE Collaboration, “Probing Strangeness Hadronization with Event-by-Event Production of Multistrange Hadrons,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 134 (2025) 022303.
2. ALICE Collaboration, “Closing in on critical net-baryon fluctuations at LHC energies,” Phys. Lett. B 844 (2023) 137545.
3. ALICE Collaboration, “Global baryon number conservation encoded in net-proton fluctuations measured in Pb-Pb collisions at √sNN = 2.76 TeV,” Phys. Lett. B 807 (2020) 135564.
4. NA49 Collaboration, “Phase-space dependence of particle-ratio fluctuations in Pb+Pb collisions from 20A to 158A GeV beam energy,” Phys. Rev. C 89 (2014) 054902.
5. HADES Collaboration, “Inclusive dielectron spectra in p+p collisions at 3.5 GeV,” Eur. Phys. J. A 48 (2012) 64.

• C++, Fortran, Python, CERN-ROOT
• Algorithms and data structures, Monte Carlo simulations
• Analysis of experimental data in ALICE, HADES, NA49, and NA61