_____ Piet Mulders _____

Address:

NIKHEF Theory Group and Department of Physics and Astronomy

Faculty of Science, VU

Science Park 105

NL-1098 XG Amsterdam

The Netherlands

E-mail address:

p.j.g.mulders@vu.nl or pjg.mulders@gmail.com

Telephone:

+31 20 598 7892 (VU secretariat)

+31 20 592 2000 (NIKHEF algemeen)

VU-profile page

Piet Mulders is (emeritus) professor of Theoretical Physics in the Department of Physics and Astronomy of the Faculty of Sciences at the VU University in Amsterdam

He studied Theoretical physics in Nijmegen, where he obtained his Ph.D. under the supervision of Johan de Swart in 1980. After this he worked at Los Alamos National Laboratory and in the Center for Theoretical Physics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, USA). From 1984-1995 he worked as a staff member at the National Institute for Subatomic Physics (NIKHEF) in Amsterdam. From 1995 - 2020 he worked as Full Professor at the VU University and member of the Nikhef Theory Group.

His research interests focus on Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD), the theory of the strong interactions which is part of the Standard Model of particle physics. In the field of hadron physics he contributed to studies on multiquark hadrons, chiral quark models and Skyrme models as well as on the effect of the nuclear environment on hadron properties. In the field of high energy scattering processes his group made a systematic study of the role of transverse momentum of quarks and gluons in hadrons pointing out the way in which correlation between momenta and spins can be accessed in dedicated electroweak and hadronic scattering experiments. The studies show how the flow of color charge at the level of quarks and gluons leads to experimental signatures in analogy to the interference patterns caused by confined magnetic fields in the Aharonov-Bohm experiment. Besides providing info on hadron structure, transverse momentum dependence, often in combination with spin dependence, also provides a tool in probing new physics. This research line is also at the basis of the ERC Research Project "QCD at work", in which the focus was on the transverse momentum dependent polarized gluon distribution functions. In his career he supervised research projects involving about 20 PhD students and about 30 postdocs, since 2012 embedded within the Nikhef Theory Group. Other specific research topics that have his attention are neutrino physics and the principles underlying the symmetries of the standard model of particle physics.

Dedicated information about the research that was part of the ERC advanced gran (awarded in 2012) can be found on the webpages ERC-focus (English) or ERC-focus (Dutch). There is also a QWORK webpage with details on the work programme.

• More detailed biographical overview
• More detailed research overview
• Scientific Publications
• Scientific Genealogy

Teaching

• Bachelor courses
• Master courses
• Ph.D. courses
• HOVO-cursus

• Publiekslezing in de Balie (Amsterdam, 2014)
  m.m.v. Jan van den Berg en Sabrina Cotogno
  
  
  
• Enkele algemene voordrachten
  
  
  
• Boek: "Van atoom tot kosmos; wie het kleine niet eert ...", ISBN 978-90-812928-1-8

• The Research School on Theoretical Physics
• The research school for Subatomic Physics

• 3D structure of QCD and entanglement, talk at the Inaugural Symposium of the Center for Frontiers in Nuclear Science, Stony Brook, 28-29 November 2018
• Spin Physics and Transverse Structure, plenary talk at the XXXIII. International Workshop on Deep-Inelastic Scattering and Related Subjects, SMU Dallas, 27 April - 1 May 2015 [PDF]
• Transverse momentum distributions and beyond: setting up the nucleon tomography, lectures at the School "Frontiers in Nuclear and Hadronic Physics", The Galileo Galilei Institute for Theoretical Physics, Arcetri, Florence (Italy), 16 - 20 Feb 2015. [presentation]
• Neutrino masses and mixing, lectures at the 2014 BND-school for PhDs, Rolduc (Sept. 2014)
• TMDs: Transverse momentum dependent Distribution and Fragmentation Functions in High Energy Scattering Processes, Lectures at the 17th Taiwan Nuclear Physics School, Institue of Physics, Academia Sinica, Taipei, August 25-28, 2014 (some background material).
• TMDs: Theory and Phenomenology, Lectures at the International Spring School on "QCD prospects for future e-p and e-A colliders", Orsay (France), June 4-8, 2012
• Transverse momenta of partons in high-energy processes, Lectures at the International School of Physics "Enrico Fermi": Course CLXXX - "Three-dimensional Partonic Structure of the Nucleon", Varenna (Italy), June 2011.
• Presentation at the INT, Seattle (Programme on Gluons and the Quark Sea at High Energies, September 2010; pdf-version)
• Talk presented at WHEPP-X (January 5, 2008; pdf-version)
• Lectures presented at the RIKEN Spinfest: Transverse Spin Physics (June 2007; pdf-version)
  [Background material: Erice lecture notes (2005)]
• Lectures presented at the ECT Doctoral Training Programme Hadron Physics: Spin Structure Functions (Trento, July 2005)
• Lectures on Polarized Hard Scattering Processes presented at the International School on Lepton Scattering and the Structure of Hadrons and Nuclei (Erice, September 2004) and at the ECT* school on Hadron Physics (Trento, July 2005).
• Lectures at Jonkerbosch schools (August 1999 and January 2001)
  • lectures LOTN-school (Jan. 2001) (one per page)

• Tom van Daal (Ph.D. December 13, 2018, shared supervision with Daniel Boer, publications)
• Sabrina Cotogno (Ph.D. October 15, 2018, publications)
• Andrea Signori (Ph.D. October 17, 2016, publications)
• Maarten Buffing (Ph.D. September 16, 2015, publications)
• Wilco den Dunnen (Ph.D. February 15, 2013, supervised by Daniel Boer, publications)
• Christiaan Mantz (publications)
• Jorn Boomsma (Ph.D. June 17, 2010, supervised by Daniel Boer, publications)
• Erik Wessels (Ph.D. June 17, 2009, supervised by Daniel Boer, publications)
• Cedran Bomhof (Ph.D. October 1, 2007, publications)
• Harmen Warringa (Ph.D. February 28, 2006, supervised by Daniel Boer, publications)
• Fetze Pijlman (PhD. January 12, 2006, publications)
• Alex Henneman (Ph.D. February 2, 2005, publications)
• Miranda van Iersel (Ph.D. October 19, 2004, supervised by Ben Bakker, publications)
• Alessandro Bacchetta (Ph.D. October 4, 2002, publications)
• Joao Rodrigues (Ph.D. October 16, 2001, publications)
• Nico Schoonderwoerd (Ph.D. January 14, 1999, supervised by Ben Bakker, publications)
• Daniel Boer (Ph.D. September 15, 1998, publications)
• Rik Tangerman (Ph.D. September 16, 1996, publications)
• Joachim Levelt (Ph.D. December 20, 1993, publications)
• Herman Meyer (Ph.D. February 17, 1992 publications)
• Werenfried Spit (Ph.D. November 4, 1991, shared supervision with Prof. P.J. Brussaard, publications)