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Raimond Snellings is a Professor of Physics at Utrecht University and a leading expert in heavy-ion physics, particle physics, and experimental physics. He is affiliated with the Institute for Subatomic Physics at Utrecht University and chairs the National Research School Subatomic Physics at Nikhef. His research focuses on Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) at high temperatures and the properties of the Quark Gluon Plasma (QGP).
Snellings has played a pivotal role in advancing anisotropic flow analysis in experiments like RHIC and ALICE. He co-authored the foundational paper on elliptic flow at RHIC (cited over 600 times), which established the 'perfect liquid' behavior of QGP, and the STAR collaboration's QGP formation paper (cited over 2000 times). His group developed critical statistical techniques for ALICE's flow and correlation analyses, leading to the first heavy-ion physics publication at the LHC, which received an Physical Review Letters editor’s selection and an American Physical Society commentary.
- Leadership Roles: FOM Program Leader for the Dutch ALICE program (up to 2021), Director of the Master Experimental Physics program at Utrecht, and Chair of the Research IT Committee (2020).
- Collaborations: Nikhef (chairing the national research school), NuPECC (member and liaison), and STAR/ALICE collaborations.
His accolades include NWO VIDI (2005) and VICI (2011) grants, FOM Springplank (2001), and recognition as one of the Netherlands' most cited scientists. He contributes to international funding reviews and long-range plans in nuclear physics.
