Just a few seconds after the big bang the entire universe consisted of a quark-gluon plasma, a phase of matter only present at extremely high energies and temperatures. We can recreate this phase of matter in the lab by colliding heavy ions such as lead at extremely high energies.
I am studying the properties of the quark-gluon plasma both in theory and experiment. My theoretical work focusses on developing a model called Trajectum which describes these heavy-ion collisions. For my experimental studies I am part of the ALICE experiment at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN.