Govert Nijs
Contact information
Office 6-302
Building 6
77 Massachusetts Avenue
02139 Boston MA
email: govert@mit.edu
Research interests
Holographic QCD
Neutron star mergers
Heavy ion collisions
Biographical information
2020-present: 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
GN and Wilke van der Schee, The hadronic nucleus-nucleus cross section and the nucleon size, arXiv:2206.13522
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
GN and Wilke van der Schee, Inferring nuclear structure from heavy isobar collisions using Trajectum, arXiv:2112.13771
GN and Wilke van der Schee, Predictions and postdictions for relativistic lead and oxygen collisions with Trajectum, arXiv:2110.13153
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