Nikhef researcher Jos Vermaseren receives prestigious ERC Advanced Grant
Dr. Jos Vermaseren, researcher in the theory group at Nikhef, has been awarded an ERC Advanced Grant by the European Research Council (ERC). He will receive over € 1.7 million for his proposal 'Solving High Energy Physics Equations using Monte Carlo Gaming Techniques – HEPGAME'. This is the third ERC Advanced Grant awarded to a Nikhef researcher in 2012.
Jos Vermaseren proposes to perform (hitherto unsolved) calculations most of which are urgently needed to make optimal use of upcoming experimental data from the Large Hadron Collider at CERN in Geneva. In particle physics these quantum field theory calculations are needed for a detailed comparison between data and theory. It is therefore only natural to demand that the theoretical results are at least as accurate as the data.
About the ERC Advanced Grants
The ERC Advanced Grant is given to exceptional individual researchers to pursue cutting-edge ground-breaking projects that open new directions in their respective research fields or other domains. Every year a few thousand applications are received by the European Research Council, of which only a few hundred are honoured. Earlier this year two ERC Advanced Grants were also awarded to Nikhef researchers Piet Mulders and Harry van der Graaf.
More information
For more information about the proposal and the research of Vermaseren, please see the Nikhef-website or contact Dr. Jos Vermaseren.