Daniel Kikoła

Dr. Daniel Kikoła is an Associate Professor in the Nuclear Physics Division at the Faculty of Physics, Warsaw University of Technology. His research focuses on high-energy nuclear physics, particularly using the STAR detector at RHIC to study quark-gluon plasma properties through heavy ion collisions. Key areas include strangeness production, jet quenching, and flow dynamics in relativistic collisions. He has contributed to over 227 publications and supervised 57 promoted theses.

His work spans topics like partonic energy loss, collectivity measurements, and antimatter hypernuclei discovery. With a h-index of 57 (Scopus), his research impacts understanding of QCD phase transitions and nuclear matter behavior under extreme conditions. Dr. Kikoła also collaborates on detector development for nuclear waste imaging via muon tomography.

Advising highlights include guiding students in STAR experiment analyses, while his experimental teams investigate phenomena like cold nuclear matter effects and chiral magnetic effect searches in isobar collisions.