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Professor Gunther Roland joined the Heavy Ion Group at MIT's Department of Physics in September 2000 as a Scientific Associate at CERN. He was promoted to Associate Professor of Physics at MIT in July 2004 and later became a Full Professor in July 2011. His research focuses on the emergent properties of strongly interacting matter under extreme conditions, particularly achieved in high-energy nuclear collisions. Roland's team is actively involved in the study of the Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP) produced in ultra-relativistic lead-lead collisions at CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC). They explore the unique properties of QGP, such as shear viscosity and the entropy density ratio, and they apply heavy-flavor probes to extract the thermodynamic transport properties of QGP. His group also prepares new calorimeter trigger systems to improve event selection and maximize opportunities for research. Roland holds a Ph.D. from the Institute for Nuclear Physics in Frankfurt, which he received in 1993. He has received multiple honors, including the Heraeus Foundation Endowed Visiting Professorship at Goethe University, Germany in 2023, and he is a Fellow of the American Physical Society.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology • Cambridge, MA
Conducting research in experimental nuclear physics and leading the Relativistic Heavy Ion Group.