NWO Veni grants for Zanoli and Mohammadi
NWO has awarded two young researchers of the ALICE group a Veni grant. Both Henrique Correia Zanoli and Naghmeh Mohammadi will receive the grant, which gives them the possibility to further pursue their own research ideas.
A charming witness of a little bang
Henrique Correia Zanoli received the grant for his research proposal 鈥淎 charming witness of a little bang鈥.
Particles are collided producing a soup of quarks and gluons. Moments after the Big Bang, the Universe was in this new state of matter, called the Quark-Gluon Plasma. Particles lose energy when traversing it, but physicists do not understand how. This research will study how particles move in this soup.
Searching for the primordial hot QCD matter in small collision systems
Nahgmeh Mohammadi, who obtained her PhD at Utrecht 木瓜福利影视 in 2017, now returns to science at the ALICE group at Nikhef with her research proposal 鈥淪earching for the primordial hot QCD matter in small collision systems鈥.
The early universe consisted of the building blocks of ordinary matter, quarks and gluons, in a hot and dense liquid state. This research will study the creation of the smallest primordial matter using collisions of small nuclei at the LHC with innovative techniques.
Veni
A total of 161 Veni grants have been awarded by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) this year. The Veni grant enables highly promising young scientists to setup their own research over the next three years.