NWO Veni grant for Peter Pang

Peter Tsun Ho Pang, currently a postdoc at GRASP, has won a prestigious NWO Veni fellowship.

At Nikhef, the National Institute for Subatomic Physics, of which GRASP is a close partner, Pang will investigate dense and hot nuclear matter using all available observational and experimental channels: gravitational waves from binary neutron star mergers as observed by LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA, and in the future Einstein Telescope; their electromagnetic emission; and information from heavy ion collisions in accelerators on Earth, as studied by the ALICE experiment on the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. In particular, he will be looking for hidden tensions between astronomical observations and nuclear experiments that may be indicative of a phase transition in quantum chromodynamics, the theory of the strong nuclear interaction; or indeed a violation of general relativity in the way spacetime interacts with the densest matter in the Universe.

Researchers at GRASP are looking forward to continued fruitful collaboration towards furthering our understanding of the behavior of nuclear matter in all its manifestations.
Hearty congratulations to Dr. Pang!