Gerrit Van Onsem

Gerrit Van Onsem is a postdoctoral researcher in High Energy Physics at the Department of Physics within the Faculty of Science and Bio-engineering Sciences at Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB). With a substantial research output of 549 publications and an impressive h-index of 100 based on over 44,197 citations, he is an active contributor to the CMS Collaboration at CERN.

His research interests span High Energy Physics, Particle Physics, Collider Physics, and the CMS Experiment, with specialized focus on Higgs Boson Physics, Quark Physics, Lepton Physics, Quantum Chromodynamics, and Beyond Standard Model Physics. The fingerprint analysis of his work shows dominant activity in collisions (100%), protons (43%), luminosity (37%), quarks (37%), leptons (34%), bosons (31%), cross sections (29%), and transverse momentum (27%).

His recent publications (2024-2025) demonstrate significant contributions to Higgs boson measurements, heavy ion physics, searches for new physics beyond the Standard Model, and precision measurements of fundamental particles. His work primarily involves analyzing data from the Large Hadron Collider, with particular emphasis on proton-proton and heavy ion collisions at various energy levels.

Dr. Van Onsem has participated in numerous CMS-related activities including the CMS Physics Week (2015), CMS detector Control and Safety shifts, and specialized workshops on top quark physics and vector-like quarks. His research collaborations span international institutions as evidenced by the global nature of the CMS Collaboration.