Dr. You, Zhou, Associate Professor at Niels Bohr Institute, is the Principal Investigator on Villum Young Investigator Program “Creating a smallest droplet of early universe in the Laboratory” to search for the smallest droplet universe at CERN.

Dr. You Zhou is an experimental high-energy nuclear physicist at the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen. Since 2010, he has been engaged in studies of Quark-Gluon Plasma using the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, mainly using the extraordinary phenomena of anisotropic expansion of the created particles to probe the properties of the QGP. He has been one of the most productive ALICE members in terms of the number of primary author publications, and also contributed to many theory papers, together with leading theoreticians. His research received multiple funding supports from Carlsberg Foundation, Villum Foundation, and Independent Research Fund Denmark (DFF-Sapere Aude).

Dr. You Zhou had been the Physics Analysis Group Flow coordinator in ALICE for 2015-2018 and was promoted to the convener of the entire Physics Working Group Correlation and Flow (PWG-CF) for 2018-2020. He chaired several international conferences/workshops and was also co-convener of multiple sessions in large international conferences (including the European Physical Society conference for high energy physics and the International Nuclear Physics Conference). He will bring one of the largest international conferences in the heavy-ion physics “Initial Stages” to Copenhagen in 2023.

Dr. You Zhou is also enthusiastic about teaching and supervision at the University of Copenhagen. He supervises students from the first-year bachelor project to the Ph.D. projects. He is also giving many lectures both at NBI and the international schools.

PERSONAL INFORMATION

Family name, First name: ZHOU, You

Researcher unique identifier(s) ORCID: 0000-0002-7868-6706

Date of birth: July 24^th, 1985

Nationality: China

 

1. EDUCATION

2010.8-2014.11   PhD, Anisotropic Flow and Flow Fluctuations at the Large Hadron Collider, PhD awarded on January 6^th, 2016.

                                National Institute for Subatomic Physics (Nikhef) and Utrecht University, The Netherlands

                                Supervisors: Prof. dr. Raimond Snellings, dr. Panos Christakoglou

2007.9-2010.6     Master, Charged Particle Ratio Fluctuation and Higher Moments of Net-Baryon Distribution in Relativistic Heavy Ion Physics

                                Central China Normal University, China

                                Supervisor: Prof. Feng Liu

1. CURRENT POSITION(S)

2019.8- Associate Professor (Five years fixed-term position), Niels  Bohr Institute, Denmark.

 Research group leader and PI on “Creating a smallest droplet of early universe in the Laboratory”.

1. PREVIOUS POSITIONS

2019.1–2019.8    Assistant Professor, Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

2018.12      Tenue-track Assistant Professor, Lund University, Sweden (did not take).

2017.9–2019.1    Carlsberg Research Fellow, Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

2015.1–2017.8    Postdoctoral researcher, Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

2011.3–Now    Visiting Scientist, CERN, Switzerland, including 6 months stationed at CERN in 2013.

1. FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS

2019          Villum Young Investigator, Villum Foundation, Denmark

2018          DFF-Sapere Aude Research Group Leader Grant, Independent Research Fund Denmark, Denmark (awarded, did not take)

2016          Carlsberg Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowships, Carlsberg Foundation, Denmark

 

1. SUPERVISION OF STUDENTS AND POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWS

2018.4-2021.10: Vytautas Vislavicius, Postdoctoral fellow, NBI, Denmark.

2020.10 - Now:   Emil Gorm Nielsen, PhD student, NBI, Denmark.

2019.8  -  Now:   Zuzana Moravcová, PhD student, NBI, Denmark.

2021.9   - Now:   Zhiyong Lu, Joint PhD student, China Institute of Atomic Energy (CIAE).

2020.4   - Now:   Mingrui Zhao, Joint PhD student, China Institute of Atomic Energy (CIAE).

2019.9–2021.5:   Ya Zhu, Joint PhD, NBI, Denmark, awarded Government Scholarships under the Cultural  Agreements, Ministry of Higher Education and Science (UFM).

2016.9-2020.2:   Vojtech Pacik, PhD, NBI, Denmark. Won the Young Scientist Prize (Springer), 2017.

2015.9-2018.8:   Katarina Gajdosova, PhD, NBI, Denmark. Won Best ALICE Thesis Award, 2019 and also  TOP12 Best Thesis of Faculty of Science, University of Copenhagen.

2019.8-2020.10: Emil Gorm Nielsen, Master with Top Grade (12), NBI, Denmark.

2019.6-2020.8:   Joachim Carlo Kristian Hansen, Master with Top Grade (12), NBI, Denmark.

2017.9-2017.7:   Helene Ausar, Master with Top Grade (12), NBI, Denmark.

2017   -  Now:   2 Bachelor students and 25 first-year bachelor project students.

1. TEACHING ACTIVITIES

2020.1          Invited Lecturer, Nordic winter school, Skeikampen, Norway

2017.5          Invited Lecturer, Helmholtz Research School, Frankfurt, Germany

2015 – Now      Lecturer and project supervisor, “Data and Project” for the first-year bachelor students, NBI, Denmark

 

1. ORGANISATION OF SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS

2023.6        Conference Chair, International Conference on the Initial Stages of High-Energy Nuclear Collisions (Initial Stages 2023) – the largest international conference on the topic of “initial stage” and one of the largest conferences in heavy-ion physics, Copenhagen, Denmark

2022.9        Co-coordinator of Hot and Dense Nuclear Matter session, International Nuclear Physics Conference (INPC 2022) – the largest international conference in Nuclear Physics, Cape Town, South Africa

2019.7        Co-Convener of Heavy-Ion Physics Session, European Physical Society Conference on High Energy Physics (EPS-HEP 2019) – the largest European conference in High-Energy Physics, Ghent, Belgium

2018.6        Conference Chair, Second International Workshop of Collectivity in Small Collision Systems, Wuhan, China.

2017.5        Conference Chair, First International Workshop of Collectivity in Small Collision Systems, Copenhagen, Denmark

2016.9                   Conference Chair, Workshop of Flow in Heavy-Ion Collisions, Copenhagen, Denmark.

2015 – Now          Organizer of local Heavy-Ion Seminar, Niels Bohr Institute, Denmark

1. REVIEWING ACTIVITIES

2020                      Invited Reviewer for NWO Talent Programme Veni, Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research, The Netherlands

2020 –                      Invited Referee, Physical Review Letters (American Physics Society)

2019 –                      Invited Referee, European Physical Journal C (Springer)

2019 –                      Invited Referee, European Physical Journal A (Springer)

2019 –                      Invited Referee, Modern Physics Letters A (World Scientific)

2019 –                      Invited Referee, International Journal of Modern Physics E (World Scientific)

2017 –                      Invited Referee, Physic Letters B (ELSEVIER)

2017 –                      Invited Referee, Nuclear Physics A (ELSEVIER)

2016 –                      Invited Referee, Physical Review C (American Physics Society)

2015 –                      Invited Referee, Europhysics Letters (European Physical Society)

 

1. MEMBERSHIPS OF SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES

2018.5–2020.6    Member of Physics Board, ALICE Collaboration, CERN.

2018.6–2020.5    Convener of Physics Working Group Correlations & Flow, ALICE Collaboration, CERN,

2015.1–2018.5    Coordinator of Physics Analysis Group Flow, ALICE Collaboration, CERN







 

Interviews and news reports (selected)

• 2021, Interview by Daily mail, “Unravelling the mystery of the first MICROSECOND of the Big Bang: Scientists reveal how plasma evolved from being its own matter to the cores in atoms and the building blocks of life within 0.000001 seconds”.
• 2021, report in Phys.org, “Study reveals new details on what happened in the first microsecond of Big Bang”.
• 2021, interview by dk, “Big Bang: Nyt studie giver hidtil bedste forståelse af det første stof, der nogensinde har eksisteret” in Danish.
• 2021, interview by LiveScience, “1st matter in the universe may have been a perfect liquid”.
• 2019, FrontPage interview by Ingeniøren, “Han vil genskabe en lille dråbe af det tidligste univers”.
• 2018, report in Science News, “Universe’s Beginning was Fluid, Physicists Say”.
• 2016, interview by Daily mail, “How the early universe behaved like a LIQUID: Cern's atom smasher recreates the ‘primordial soup’ that began the universe”.
• 2016, interview by Ingeniøren, “Cern har genskabt ursuppen efter big bang” in Danish.

Outreach articles at CERN Courier

• 2018 July/August, Volume 58, Number 6, “Anisotropic flow in Xe-Xe collisions”.
• 2016 November, Volume 56, Number 9, “ALICE explores shear viscosity in QCD matter”.
• 2016 April, Volume 56, Number 3, “Anisotropic flow in Run 2”.
• 2014 July/August, Volume 54, Number 6, “ALICE and the flowing particle zoo”.

Conference talks and seminars (last five years)

• 12, Invited Talk at Zimanyi School & Winter Workshop on Heavy Ion Physics, online.
• 11, Invited Seminar at Brookhaven National Laboratory Nuclear Physics Seminar, online.
• 10, Invited Seminar at RHIC-BES Online Seminar, the largest online seminar of the field of heavy-ion physics (with ~200 participants)
• 10, Contributed Talk at Workshop on Multiple Partonic Interactions at the LHC (MPI@LHC2021), online.
• 7, Invited Talk at International Symposium on Multiparticle Dynamics (ISMD2021), online.
• 7, Contributed Talk at European Physical Society conference for high energy physics (EPS-HEP), online.
• 10, Contributed Talk at International Conference on Particle Physics and Astrophysics (ICPPA2020), online.
• 10, Contributed Talk at International Conference "NUCLEUS-2020", online.
• 9, Invited Plenary Talk at International Conference on New Frontiers in Physics (ICNFP2020), online.
• 5, Invited Seminar at CERN-LHC Seminar, the largest platform to report the most important discoveries at the LHC, online.
• 1, Contributed Talk, Nordic Particle Physics Meeting (Spaatind 2020), Skeikampen, Norway
• 11, Contributed talk at Quark Matter 2019, Wuhan, China.
• 11, Invited Seminar at Institute of Particle Physics, Wuhan, China.
• 5, Invited Lecture at Danish Physics Society meeting (DFS2019), Denmark.
• 4, Invited Talk at INT Workshop of Origins of Correlations in High Energy Collisions, Seattle, US
• 11, Invited Seminar at University of Houston, Houston, US.
• 2, Invited Talk at COST Workshop on Interplay of hard and soft QCD probes for collectivity in heavy-ion collisions, Lund, Sweden.
• 1, Invited Talk at EPIPHANY Conference on Advances in Heavy Ion Physics, Kraków, Poland.
• 12, Invited Talk at International Workshop on Multiple Partonic Interactions at the LHC (MPI@LHC2018), Perugia, Italy.
• 9, Invited Talk at International Symposium on Multiparticle Dynamics (ISMD 2018), Singapore
• 5, Invited Plenary talk at International Conference on Ultra-relativistic Nucleus-Nucleus Collisions (Quark Matter 2018), Venice. This is an experimental overview talk to summarize the entire experimental efforts in the topic of collective flow.
• 5, Invited Seminar at e-Forum on High-Energy Nuclear Physics, online.
• 3, Invited Seminar at Nuclear Physics Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic.
• 10, Invited lectures at Centre for High Energy Physics, Peking University, Beijing, China.
• 9, Invited Plenary Talk at International Conference on the Initial Stages in High-Energy Nuclear Collisions (Initial Stages 2017), Kraków, Poland.
• 8, Invited Talk at International Conference on New Frontiers in Physics (ICNFP17), Crete, Greece.
• 6, Invited Key-note Talk at Workshop on Particle Correlations and Femtoscopy (WPCF17), Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
• 3, Invited Seminar at SCIENCE COFFEES, Particle Physics Division, Lund University, Lund, Sweden.
• 2, Contributed Talk at International Conference on Ultra-relativistic Nucleus-Nucleus Collisions (Quark Matter 2017), Chicago, US.