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Raimond Snellings is Professor of Physics and Head of Department at Utrecht University's Faculty of Science. He leads the Gravitational and Subatomic Physics (GRASP) research group and serves as scientific director of the Institute of Gravitational and Subatomic Physics. Snellings is also program leader of the Dutch ALICE program and conducts research within the ALICE experiment at the CERN Large Hadron Collider.
His research focuses on experimental heavy-ion physics, where he creates matter at extreme densities and temperatures through heavy-ion collisions to study Quantum Chromodynamics and properties of the early universe. Snellings is an expert on collective flow phenomena, and his work was foundational to the discovery of the perfect liquid behavior of the Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP). His research group developed sophisticated statistical techniques for reliable flow measurements in the ALICE experiment.
Snellings' recent publications (2024-2025) demonstrate his leadership in heavy-ion physics, with research spanning quarkonium production, strangeness enhancement, light nuclei production, flow phenomena, and heavy-flavor physics. These works collectively advance our understanding of fundamental properties of matter under extreme conditions created in high-energy collisions.
- FOM "springplank" (2001)
- NWO Vidi grant (2005)
- NWO Vici grant (2011)
- Elected member of Academia Europaea (2016)
As department head and research leader, Snellings oversees significant research programs while maintaining active involvement in international collaborations at CERN, directing both institutional strategy and cutting-edge research in nuclear and particle physics.
