_____ Piet Mulders _____

Department of Theoretical Physics

Postal address:

Department of Physics and Astronomy

Faculty of Sciences,

VU University

De Boelelaan 1081

NL-1081 HV Amsterdam

The Netherlands

E-mail address:

mulders@few.vu.nl

Telephone:

+31 20 598 7863 (direct)

+31 20 598 7892 (secretariat)

+31 20 592 5096 (at NIKHEF)

fax:

+31 20 598 7992

Piet Mulders is 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 Nuclear Physics and High Energy Physics (NIKHEF) in Amsterdam. Since 1995 he works as Full Professor at the VU University, being Chairman of the Department of Physics and Astronomy between 2002 and 2006.

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 made significant contributions 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 he 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 polarization, also provides a tool in probing new physics. This research line is also at the basis of the ERC Research Project "QCD at work".

The general scope of the research within the ERC grant can be found in the ERC-focus (English) or ERC-focus (Dutch).

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Teaching

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

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• Boek: "Van atoom tot kosmos; wie het kleine niet eert ...", ISBN 978-90-812928-1-8

• FP7 - I3 Hadron Physics 3: Study of Strongly Interacting Matter
• FP7 - I3 Hadron Physics 2: Study of Strongly Interacting Matter
  • I3HP - Lepton: Hadron Physics (Glasgow connection)
• FP6 - I3 Hadron Physics: Study of Strongly Interacting Matter
• FOM Network for Theoretical High Energy Physics

• The Research School on Theoretical Physics
• The research school for Subatomic Physics
• The 4th International Summer School on Particle and Astroparticle Physics

• 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 (some background material).
• 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)

• Andrea Signori
• Maarten Buffing (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, homepage, 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)