I am a gay physicist who loves (rescue) dogs and boardgames. A lot of my work is focused on analyzing systematic errors associated with lattice calculations as well as getting undergraduates involved in this research. I enjoy the ability to add to the body of knowledge in the world to assist even in the smallest way to understanding this universe just a little bit more. By teaching virtually I was able to spend six weeks with my family during the spring (the peak of the outbreak in NYC) during a difficult time when otherwise I couldn't have done so — while still not a great time, it was better because of COVID.

I'm originally from Venezuela, and in my free time I love climbing, biking, dancing, and sometimes painting. These days I also spend lots of time developing and hosting outreach programs to diversify the STEM. My research focuses on different aspects of few-body physics and scattering theory in/out of the lattice. What's there not to love about research? You get to spend your life being challenged and talking to remarkably interesting and smart people. I work in various outreach programs to diversify the STEM which were canceled due to COVID, so we created REYES. This is a virtual program for inspiring the next generation of scientist, and in our first year we had over 7,000 participants for all over the world.

I am a British-German physicist and I also enjoy walking and cycling. I am a lattice gauge theorist and I investigate how the properties of hadrons arise due to the quark and gluon constituents via numerical simulation. I enjoy working in the field of lattice gauge theory as you combine theory with high performance computing and are looking to provide results relevant to experiment. During the lockdown I have enjoyed spending more time with my two sons and cooking together.

I am a particle theorist with particular interest in non-perturbative quantum field theory. Recently I have concentrated on the interplay of lattice gauge theory and chiral symmetry. I enjoy figuring out how things work. Online lectures from far away places help cut the boredom of being isolated.

I am an Italian physicist working in Germany with a passion for foreign languages and linguistics. I employ lattice methods to map out the phase diagram of QCD and learn about the behavior of strongly interacting matter under extreme thermodynamical conditions. I love my research because of the mix and interplay of theory and numerics and because our fundamental understanding of QCD matters to our interpretation of phenomena from microscopic to macroscopic scales. During COVID I have learned origami. :)

I am a theoretical physicist originally from Iran. In my free time, I enjoy reading political/social/cultural/medical commentaries. I also love fashion, design, and architecture. My research involves applying a range of theoretical and computational tools, from effective field theories and lattice QCD to classical and quantum computing to study the core of matter from the underlying Standard Model. I love my research since my theoretical-minded view of fundamental physics got expanded and deepened once I started figuring out how to "compute" nature from first principles — classically and quantum-mechanically! A year into the pandemic, I calculated that I gained 28 working days (= 8 hrs each) and reduced my carbon footprint by more than 3000 lbs by not having to commute to work!

I am an American physicist living and working in Europe, and I also enjoy hiking and skiing. I develop and apply methods for extracting multi-hadron amplitudes from lattice QCD. I love my research because it provides an interesting balance of theoretical and computational challenges, and because it brings me in contact with inspiring researchers from across our global community. As a co-organizer of this school, I look forward to exploring the potential of interactive learning in the context of these advanced topics.

I am a Japanese physicist, and I also like cooking. I am working on finite density QCD and quantum computing. I would like to understand the nonperturbative properties of quantum field theories and lattice simulation is the most powerful tool for finding them. During this COVID, I feel it becomes easier to organize and attend many international workshops.

I am a Japanese physicist, and I love playing with my dog. I have been carrying out lattice QCD simulations to precisely calculate hadronic matrix elements for the search for new physics. I enjoy lattice QCD simulations, which enable me to access to highly non-trivial and non-perturbative properties of hadrons based on first-principles.

I am a Taiwanese-American physicist, and I also design phone games. I use lattice QCD to calculate the quark and gluon structure of baryons and mesons, like charges, form factors and parton distributions. I love my research because experiments around the world from LHC to nuclear and neutrino physics can leverage my work to explore the frontiers of fundamental physics. During COVID, I have been learning to cook a new dessert every weekend with my daughters and have been traveling to outer space in VR.

I am a computational scientist with a background in lattice QCD. I am also learning to be a gardener in my spare time. My research focuses on the efficient utilization of the world's fastest supercomputers. I love my research as I get to work with scientists from different domains, and learn a lot of cool science. I have been working from home since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. Although I miss seeing my friends and colleagues, I have enjoyed spending more time at home with my six-year-old and my cat.

I am an American physicist, and I also do some amateur photography, mostly wildlife. I use computational tools, including lattice QCD, to study models of new physics beyond the Standard Model. I love my research because I get to directly explore the possibilities at the unknown frontier of particle physics. COVID quarantine has been tough, but has also provided me with opportunities to spend more time on video chats with family and to shore up my high-altitude bread baking skills.

I am a theoretical physicist, and I am also a competitive dressage rider. My research is focused on the use of lattice field theory for understanding nuclear physics, dense matter, and low-energy searches for BSM physics. I love my research because it allows me to explore the limits of everyday matter, and understand how the universe we live in came to be as it is today. During COVID my boyfriend and I discovered a beautiful pond near our house with a circa 1756 gristmill and started having picnics there once a week.

I am a Japanese physicist. I also like a cat. Most of my papers so far are in hep-th but I am recently working on hep-lat x quantum computation stuff. Regarding the hep-lat x quantum computation stuff, I love it because we have a chance to explore non-perturbative aspects of real time dynamics in quantum field theory. During COVID, I learned how to road coffee beans by myself.

I am an Australian physicist, and enjoy getting out into nature. I work with lattice field theory and effective field theory tools to understand the structure and interactions of protons, neutrons and nuclei, motivated by understanding the emergence of complex structure in nature and by the need for Standard Model benchmarks and backgrounds in searches for new physics. I love the diversity of daily work in my research, from pen-and-paper (or computer algebra) theory, to algorithm and code development and large-scale production calculations, to interfacing with experimental analyses and datasets, and the breadth of connections across particle and nuclear theory.