Prof. Dr. Dmitri Kharzeev

Profile

Academic positionFull Professor
Research fieldsNuclear Physics
Keywordsquark-gluon plasma, heavy-ion collisions, high-energy QCD

Current contact address

CountryUnited States of America
CityStony Brook
InstitutionStony Brook University
InstituteDepartment of Physics and Astronomy

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Dirk RischkeInstitut für Theoretische Physik, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, Frankfurt am Main
Prof. Dr. Frithjof KarschFakultät für Physik, Universität Bielefeld, Bielefeld
Start of initial sponsorship01/05/2014

Programme(s)

2013Humboldt Research Award Programme

Nominator's project description

Professor Kharzeev is one of the leading scientists in the field of high-energy nuclear physics. He has made ground-breaking contributions to the field by developing a theory for particle production in nuclear collisions and by identifying signals for novel states of matter created in such collisions. During his stay in Germany, he intends to develop a theory of a so-called "chiral fluid" interacting with electromagnetic fields and to apply it to nuclear collisions.