Govert Nijs

Biographical information

• 2023-present: Postdoc, CERN TH

• 2020-2023: Postdoc, Center for Theoretical Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

• 2016-2020: PhD, Institute for Theoretical Physics, Utrecht University, supervised by Umut Gürsoy and Raimond Snellings

• 2013-2016: Master in theoretical physics & master in mathematical sciences, Utrecht University, thesis supervised by Umut Gürsoy and Yuri Kuznetsov

• 2009-2013: Bachelor in physics & bachelor in mathematics, Utrecht University, both cum laude.

Publication list

• Wilke van der Schee, Isobel Kolbé, GN, Kumail Ruhani, Ishtiaq Ahmed and Shahin Iqbal, Three models for charged hadron nuclear modification from light to heavy ions, arXiv:2509.04299

• Federica Capellino, Andrea Dubla, Silvia Masciocchi, GN and Daniel Spitz, Toward a topological data analysis for heavy-ion collisions, arXiv:2509.02339, Phys. Rev. C 112 (2025) 054090 

• GN, Wilke van der Schee, Transmutation of O-16 and Ne-20 at the Large Hadron Collider, arXiv:2507.01659 

• Olaf Massen, GN, Mike Sas, Wilke van der Schee and Raimond Snellings, Effective temperatures of the QGP from thermal photon and dilepton production, arXiv:2412.09671, Eur. Phys. J. C 85 (2025) 4, 388 

• Giuliano Giacalone et al. (GN), Anisotropic Flow in Fixed-Target Pb-208+Ne-20 Collisions as a Probe of Quark-Gluon Plasma, arXiv:2405.20210, Phys. Rev. Lett. 134 (2025) 082301 

• Giuliano Giacalone, Benjamin Bally, GN, Shihang Shen et al., Exploiting Ne-20 Isotopes for Precision Characterizations of Collectivity in Small Systems, arXiv:2402.05995, Phys. Rev. Lett. 135 (2025) 012302 

• GN and Wilke van der Schee, Ultracentral heavy ion collisions, transverse momentum and the equation of state, arXiv:2312.04623, Phys. Lett. B 853 (2024) 138636 

• GN, Bruno Scheihing-Hitschfeld and Xiaojun Yao, Generalized gluon distribution for quarkonium dynamics in strongly coupled N = 4 Yang-Mills theory, arXiv:2310.09325, Phys. Rev. D 109 (2024) 094043 

• Wilke van der Schee, Yen-Jie Lee, GN and Yi Chen, Hard probes in isobar collisions as a probe of the neutron skin, arXiv:2307.11836, Phys. Lett. B 856 (2024) 138953 

• Giuliano Giacalone, GN and Wilke van der Schee, Determination of the neutron skin of Pb-208 from ultrarelativistic nuclear collisions, arXiv:2305.00015, Phys. Rev. Lett. 131 (2023) 202302 

• GN and Wilke van der Schee, A generalized hydrodynamizing initial stage for Heavy Ion Collisions, arXiv:2304.06191 

• GN, Bruno Scheihing-Hitschfeld and Xiaojun Yao, Chromoelectric field correlator for quarkonium transport in the strongly coupled N = 4 Yang-Mills plasma from AdS/CFT, arXiv:2304.03298, JHEP 06 (2023) 007 

• GN and Wilke van der Schee, The hadronic nucleus-nucleus cross section and the nucleon size, arXiv:2206.13522, Phys. Rev. Lett 129 (2022) 232301 

• Caitlin Beattie, GN, Mike Sas and Wilke van der Schee, Hard probe path lengths and event-shape engineering of the quark-gluon plasma, arXiv:2203.13265, Phys. Lett. B 836 (2023) 137596 

• GN and Wilke van der Schee, Inferring nuclear structure from heavy isobar collisions using Trajectum, arXiv:2112.13771, SciPost Phys. 15 (2023) 041 

• GN and Wilke van der Schee, Predictions and postdictions for relativistic lead and oxygen collisions with Trajectum, arXiv:2110.13153, Phys. Rev. C 106 (2022) 044903 

• Umut Gürsoy, Matti Järvinen, GN and Juan F. Pedraza, On the interplay between magnetic field and anisotropy in holographic QCD, arXiv:2011.09474, JHEP 02 (2021) 180

• GN, Wilke van der Schee, Umut Gürsoy and Raimond Snellings, Bayesian analysis of heavy ion collisions with the heavy ion computational framework Trajectum, arXiv:2010.15134, Phys. Rev. Lett. 126 (2021) 202301

• GN, Wilke van der Schee, Umut Gürsoy and Raimond Snellings, Transverse Momentum Differential Global Analysis of Heavy-Ion Collisions, arXiv:2010.15130, Phys. Rev. C 103 (2021) 054909

• Niko Jokela, Matti Järvinen, GN and Jere Remes, Unified weak/strong coupling framework for nuclear matter and neutron stars, arXiv:2006.01141, Phys. Rev. D 103 (2021) 086004

• Christian Ecker, Matti Järvinen, GN and Wilke van der Schee, Gravitational Waves from Holographic Neutron Star Mergers, arXiv:1908.03213, Phys. Rev. D 101 (2020) 103006

• Takaaki Ishii, Matti Järvinen and GN, Cool baryon and quark matter in holographic QCD, arXiv:1903.06169, JHEP 07 (2019) 003

• Umut Gürsoy, Matti Järvinen, GN and Juan Pedraza, Inverse Anisotropic Catalysis in Holographic QCD, arXiv:1811.11724, JHEP 04 (2019) 071

• Umut Gürsoy, Matti Järvinen and GN, Holographic QCD in the Veneziano limit at finite Magnetic Field and Chemical Potential, arXiv:1707.00872, Phys. Rev. Lett. 120 (2018) 242002

• Umut Gürsoy, Ioannis Iatrakis, Matti Järvinen and GN, Inverse Magnetic Catalysis from improved Holographic QCD in the Veneziano limit, arXiv:1611.06339, JHEP 03 (2017) 053