RKE Group and collaborators

Group members at Vanderbilt

Dr. Benjamin Kimelman

Postdoctoral Research Scientist (Spring 2023 - )

PhD 2022, UC Davis

Research Interests -

QGP formation time
Impact of the formation time on hard probes
Nuclear modification of hard probes using a pre-QGP formation baseline

Dr. Jussi Viinikainen

Postdoctoral Research Scientist (Fall 2022 - )

PhD 2017 University of Jyväskylä

Research Interests -

jet substructure in heavy ion collision
energy-energy correlators

Jennifer James

Graduate Student (Fall 2022 - )

Jet substructure measurements at sPHENIX

Christopher Platte

Graduate Student (Fall 2022 - )

Heavy flavor jets and Machine Learning at sPHENIX

McKenna Sleeth

Graduate Student (co-advised by
Prof. J-F Pacquet) (Fall 2022 - )

Photon fragmentation within Jets in data and from JETSCAPE at RHIC energies

Laurynette Griffin
(she/they)

Graduate Student (Fall 2023 - )

Jet substructure at RHIC w/ sPHENIX

Si Pybus
(they/he)

Undergraduate Student
(Vanderbilt Class of 2024)

Jet substructure studies at the LHC

Allison Sellers

High School Student (SSMV)
(Spring - Fall 2023)

EIC simulation studies of heavy flavor hadronization

Savion Johnson

Undergraduate Student
Vanderbilt Class of 2024

Machine learning studies of jet quenching at the LHC

Close collaborators (Students)

Nuno Olavo

Masters Student w/ Dr. Liliana Apolinario, 2022

Youqi Song (Yale)

PhD Student advised by Prof. Helen Caines

Andrew Tamis (Yale)

PhD Student advised by Prof. Helen Caines

Monika Robotkova (NPI, Czech)

PhD Student advised by Prof. Jana Bielchikova

Former Mentees and Group Members

Georgi Ponimatkin

Masters Student at NPI, Prague advised by
Prof. Jana Bielchikova

Now - PhD student @ Paris on AI/ML

Dr. Isaac Mooney

PhD student at Wayne State, advised by
Prof. Joern Putschke

Now - Postdoc @ Yale

Jitka Mrazkova
(NPI, Czech)

Masters Student advised by Prof. Jana Bielchikova

Now - PhD student @ NPI