Nora Brambilla

Professor Nora Brambilla holds the Chair of Theoretical Physics - Computational Field Theory, Nuclear and Hadron Many-Body Systems at the Technical University of Munich's Department of Physics within the TUM School of Natural Sciences. Her research program at T30f focuses on developing and applying effective quantum field theories to understand the dynamics of the strong interaction in both high-energy particle physics and low-energy nuclear physics contexts.

Her research interests center on Effective Field Theories (EFTs) and Renormalization Techniques with applications across multiple domains of physics. She develops non-relativistic effective field theories for heavy-quark processes, quarkonium and exotics XYZ physics at major accelerator experiments including those at CERN's Large Hadron Collider, the B factory in Japan, and the tau-charm factory in China. Her work also encompasses EFTs for strong interactions at finite temperature and density with applications to heavy-ion experiments at RHIC in the USA and LHC at CERN, as well as cosmological environments. She conducts high-order perturbative calculations in QCD for precision determination of Standard Model parameters and explores non-perturbative methods with applications to confinement mechanisms. A current focus involves matching traditional QCD lattice calculations with quantum computing to obtain observables of strongly correlated systems in and out of equilibrium.

Her recent publications reveal a strong trend toward applying effective field theory techniques to dark matter physics, quarkonium suppression in heavy-ion collisions, and the interface between quantum computing and strong interaction physics. The research demonstrates increasing interdisciplinary connections between particle physics, nuclear physics, cosmology, and quantum information science.

• Elected Fellow of the American Physical Society (2012)
• Vice-President Marie Curie Association (2002-2005)
• Humboldt Fellowship for Long Term Cooperation (2002-2003)
• Marie Curie Fellowship (1998-1999)
• Alexander Von Humboldt Fellowship (1997)

Professor Brambilla is a founding member of the International Quarkonium Working Group (2002) and the Quark Confinement and the Hadron Spectrum conference series (1994). She serves on the Theory Advisory Committee of the Panda Experiment at GSI-Darmstadt (since 2009). Her teaching portfolio includes advanced courses in quantum mechanics, effective field theories, and seminars on the physics of strong interactions for both winter and summer semesters through 2025.