List of Postdoctoral researchers
Davide Caffarri (May 2017 – June 2020)
- Postdoctoral researcher at Nikhef
- Topic: “Angular correlation studies at the LHC”
- Rihan Haque (October 2016 – June 2019)
- Postdoctoral researcher at Utrecht University
- Topic: “Chiral magnetic effect studies at the LHC”
List of PhD candidates
Noor Koster (September 2023 – Today)
- PhD at Nikhef and Maastricht Utrecht
- Topic: “Connecting the hot and dense QCD matter in heavy ion collisions with the cold and dense nuclear matter in the interior of neutron stars”
Rik Spijkers (January 2022 – Today)
- PhD at Nikhef and Utrecht University
- Topic: “Hadronisation of strange particles”
Shi Qiu (September 2019 – April 2024)
- PhD at Nikhef and Utrecht University
- Topic: “Searches for the chiral magnetic effect at the LHC”
Zhanna Khabanova (October 2016 – September 2020)
- PhD at Nikhef and Utrecht University
- Topic: “Studies of collective effects in pp collisions at the LHC with the balance function for identified particles“
Naghmeh Mohammadi (September 2013 – May 2017)
- PhD at Nikhef and Utrecht University
- Topic: “Higher harmonic anisotropic flow of identified particles“
You Zhou (August 2011 – September 2016)
- PhD at Nikhef and Utrecht University
- Topic: “Anisotropic flow and flow fluctuations at the Large Hadron Collider“
Alis Rodriguez Manso (September 2011 – August 2015)
- PhD at Nikhef and Utrecht University
- Topic: “Balance functions: Multiplicity and transverse momentum dependence of the charge dependent correlations in ALICE“
List of MSc students
- Bart Kuipers (September 2025 – August 2026)
MSc at University of Amsterdam (UvA)
Topic: “Particle tracking at the LHC using Graph Neural Networks”
Oza Passot (September 2025 – August 2026)MSc at University of Amsterdam (UvA)
Topic: “Electromagnetic-Induced Effects in Hydrodynamical Simulations in Heavy-Ion Collisions”
- Niels Landsman (September 2023 – August 2024)
MSc at University of Amsterdam (UvA)
Topic: “Synthesis of MNT products in 65Cu + 209Bi reaction at RITU, and development of data analysis tools for a DSSSD at the NEXT project”
- Paul Veen (September 2023 – August 2024)
MSc at University of Amsterdam (UvA)
Topic: “Heavy Flavour Hadronisation and Balancing Studies as a Function of Multiplicity in pp Collisions at the LHC with PYTHIA 8.3”
- Yonne Lourens (September 2022 – August 2023)
MSc at University of Amsterdam (UvA)
Topic: “Study of charm hadronisation mechanisms from small to large collision systems with the ALICE experiment”
- Jasper Westbroek (September 2022 – August 2023)
MSc at University of Amsterdam (UvA)
Topic: “Isobar studies for the chiral magnetic effect”
- Ioannis Sidiras (September 2022 – Today)
MSc at University of Amsterdam (UvA)
Topic: “Charm correltions at the LHC energies”
- Wessel Rijk (March 2021 – December 2022)
MSc at University of Amsterdam (UvA)
Topic: “Unsupervised Anomaly Detection for Finding Quenched Jets with the LSTM and OC-SVM”
Noor Koster (March 2021 – July 2022)MSc at University of Amsterdam (UvA)
Topic: “Multi-charm baryon production with the ALICE-3 detector”
Johanna Lömker (March 2021 – July 2022)MSc at Utrecht University (UU)
Topic: “A Study of electromagnetic fields in heavy-ion collisions through anisotropic flow”
- Maurice Jongerhuis (March 2021 – July 2022)
MSc at Utrecht University (UU)
Topic: “Heavy flavour studies for ALICE-3”
- Benji Matthaei (May 2021 – July 2022)
MSc at University of Amsterdam (UvA)
Topic: “Heavy flavour studies for ALICE-3”
Joey Staa (September 2020 – July 2021)MSc at University of Amsterdam (UvA)
Topic: “Modelling the chiral magnetic effect“
- Rik Spijkers (September 2020 – July 2021)
MSc at Utrecht University (UU)
Topic: “X(3872) production studies for run 5 with the new heavy ion detector“
- Cas van Veen (September 2020 – July 2021) (main supervisor Marco van Leeuwen)
MSc at University of Amsterdam (UvA)
Topic: “Simulation studies of electron-hadron separation with a preshower detector for ALICE 3 at the LHC“
- Amber van Keeken (February 2020 – January 2021)
MSc at Utrecht University (UU)
Topic: “Charge dependent correlations in Xe-Xe collisions at the LHC“
- Anastasis Papadopoulos (February 2020 – Today)
MSc at University of Amsterdam (UvA)
Topic: “Production of Λb with the ALICE detector in run 3”
- Marten Barel (February 2019 – November 2020) (main supervisor Robert Fleischer)
MSc at Utrecht University (UU)
Topic: “Penguin uncertainties in high accuracy measurements of φd,s“
- Floris Jonkman (February 2019 – January 2020)
MSc at University of Amsterdam (UvA)
Topic: “Charm baryon production as a function of the event activity in pp collisions at the LHC“
- Sizar Aziz (September 2017 – June 2018)
MSc at University of Amsterdam (UvA)
Topic: “Study of the Chiral Magnetic Effect in collisions of heavy-ions at the Large Hadron Collider”
- Steven Zindel (September 2017 – September 2018)
MSc at University of Amsterdam (UvA)
Topic: “Study of charge dependent correlations in pp, p-Pb and Pb-Pb collisions at the Large Hadron Collider”
- Dimitra Andreou (January 2016 – January 2017)
MSc at University of Amsterdam (UvA)
Topic: “Upgrade of the ALICE Inner Tracking System”
- Giorgos Krintiras (January 2014 – May 2015)
MSc at University of Amsterdam (UvA)
- Adinda de Wit (August 2011 – June 2012)
MSc at Utrecht University (UU)
Topic: “Modeling of charge dependent correlations in heavy-ion collisions”
