_____ Piet Mulders _____

- Address:
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NIKHEF Theory Group and Department of Physics and Astronomy
- Faculty of Science, VU
- De Boelelaan 1081
- NL-1081 HV Amsterdam
- The Netherlands
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- or
- 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)
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- VU-profile page
- Nikhef-profile page

Biography and Research interests
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. Since 1995 he works 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 the 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 as part of 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.

Teaching

Outreach

Dutch Research and Summer Schools for Ph.D. students

Some talks, conference contributions or lectures
- 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]
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Neutrino masses and mixing, lectures at the 2014 BND-school for PhDs, Rolduc (Sept. 2014)
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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).
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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
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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.
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Presentation at the INT, Seattle
(Programme on Gluons and the Quark Sea at High Energies, September 2010;
pdf-version)
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Talk presented at WHEPP-X (January 5, 2008;
pdf-version)
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Lectures presented at the RIKEN Spinfest:
Transverse Spin Physics (June 2007; pdf-version)
[Background material:
Erice lecture notes
(2005)]
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Lectures presented at the ECT Doctoral Training Programme Hadron Physics:
Spin Structure Functions
(Trento, July 2005)
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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)

Ph.D. students
- 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)

P.J. Mulders / mulders@few.vu.nl