Curriculum Vitae Personal Information Name Dr. Marlene Nahrgang Address 1217 Berkeley Street, Durham, NC 27705, USA +1 919 885 9997 marlene.nahrgang@phy.duke.edu Date of Birth 02. August 1982 in Marburg/Lahn, Germany Citizenship German since 08/ Academic Employment Postdoctoral researcher, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA. Theory Group with Prof. Dr. Berndt Müller and Prof. Dr. Steffen A. Bass 08/2011 07/ Postdoctoral researcher, Laboratoire de la Physique subatomique et des technologies associées (SUBATECH), Nantes, France. Theory Group with Prof. Dr. Jörg Aichelin, Prof. Dr. Pol Bernard Gossiaux and Prof. Dr. Klaus Werner Education 07/2011 Doctoral degree, Ph.D., Goethe-University and Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies (FIAS), Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Title of doctoral thesis: Nonequilibrium phase transitions in chiral fluid dynamics including dissipation and fluctuation Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Marcus Bleicher Final grade: summa cum laude (excellent) 07 10/2010 Ph.D. studies in physics, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Uppsala, Uppsala, Sweden. Research stay with Prof. Dr. Stefan Leupold 2008 2011 Ph.D. studies in physics, Goethe-University and Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies (FIAS), Frankfurt am Main, Germany. supervisor: Prof. Dr. Marcus Bleicher 03/2008 Diploma degree in physics, Philipps-University, Marburg an der Lahn, Germany. Title of diploma thesis: Multichain Approach to the Single-Impurity Anderson Model in the Dynamical Mean-Field Theory Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Florian Gebhard Final grade: 1.0 (excellent) 2006 2007 College for Natural Sciences, Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes (German Academic Scholarship Foundation). Topic: The Big Bang in the laboratory: heavy-ion collisions Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Peter Braun-Munzinger, Prof. Dr. Harald Appelshäuser, Prof. Dr. Marcus Bleicher, Prof. Dr. Burkhard Kämpfer, Prof. Dr. Jürgen Schaffner-Bielich, Prof. Dr. Klaus Reygers Dr. Marlene Nahrgang 1/5
2005 2006 Studies abroad, Novosibirsk Technical State University, Novosibirsk, Russia. Topic: Solitons and inverse scattering theory 2002 2008 Studies in physics, Philipps-University, Marburg an der Lahn, Germany. 1999 2002 Abitur, Martin-Luther-Schule, Marburg an der Lahn, Germany. Final grade: 1.0 (excellent) since Scholarships Postdoctoral fellowship of DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service). 2011 Member of the Helmholtz Graduate School for Heavy Ion Research. 2008 2011 Ph.D. scholarship from the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes (German Academic Scholarship Foundation). 2008 2011 Ph.D. scholarship from the Stiftung Polytechnische Gesellschaft Frankfurt am Main. 2002 2008 Scholarship from the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes (German Academic Scholarship Foundation). 2005 2006 DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) scholarship for studies abroad (Russia). 2005 2006 Scholarship Metropolen in Osteuropa, Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes (German Academic Scholarship Foundation) and Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach- Stiftung. June October Experiences and Activities Co-organizer of the workshop 15 GeV Run and Final BES Results, BNL (USA). Co-organizer of Workshop on heavy-flavor correlations, Bergen (Norway). 2008 2011 Member of the McKinsey Capstone mentoring program. 2008 Mentee and mentor in networks supporting women in science and technology. 2004 2008 Teaching assistant in physics, mathematics and medical physics. April 2006 July 2005 Participant of Economy and Science Forum with Angela Merkel and Vladimir Putin, German-Russian Governmental Consultations, Tomsk, Russia. Participant of Petersburger Dialog with Mikhail Gorbachev and Richard von Weizsäcker, Bonn, Germany 2003 2005 Russian language courses (St. Petersburg and Landesspracheninstitut NRW). since 2004 Active member of Amnesty International in Germany, France and USA. 1999 2008 European short course and network reunions, United World Colleges. Languages German - native; English - fluent; French - fluent; Russian - fluent Hobbies Football (soccer) active and passive Dr. Marlene Nahrgang 2/5
Traveling and languages Politics, social science, human rights and secular freethought movements Research Interests Thermodynamic and transport properties of hot and dense QCD matter. Fluctuations in the QGP and at the QCD phase transition with applications to heavy-ion collisions. Quantum field theoretical descriptions of phase transitions in nonequilibrium. Fluid dynamical description and microscopic transport theory for heavy-ion collisions. Medium-induced energy loss of heavy quarks in the quark-gluon plasma (QGP). New observables of heavy-quark correlations and flow. Electron-electron interactions in solids. Invited Conference Talks 29/09/2015 The QCD Critical Point and Related Observables, Plenary talk. Quark Matter 2015, Kobe, Japan July 08, 2015 May 19, 2015 December 09-12, September 21-28, December 02-05, September 16-21, April 13-16, May 06-12, 2012 Open Charm at LHC, Plenary talk. Strangeness in Quark Matter 2015, Dubna, Russia Theory aspects of open heavy flavor production and suppression in cold and hot nuclear matter, Plenary talk. The 7th International Workshop on Charm Physics (CHARM 2015), Detroit, USA Heavy-flavor correlations and higher-order flow: Theory. Sapore Gravis, Padova, Italy Fluctuations and the QCD phase diagram. Hot Quarks, Las Negras, Spain Azimuthal correlations of heavy flavors in AA collisions. Sapore Gravis, Nantes, France Compressed Baryonic Matter experiment at FAIR: Theory overview. FAIRNESS, Berlin, Germany New advances in the hydrodynamic description of the QCD critical point in heavy-ion collisions. APS April Meeting, Denver, USA The QCD phase transition in nonequilibrium chiral fluid dynamics. Excited QCD, Peniche, Portugal Invited Seminar Talks December 08, 2015 October 07, 2015 The QCD phase diagram and its signatures in heavy-ion collisions. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA Heavy-flavor flow and energy loss in the quark-gluon plasma. Osaka University, Japan Dr. Marlene Nahrgang 3/5
January 24, November 12, November 26, 2012 May 16, 2012 September 29, 2011 December 09, 2010 Fluid dynamics in the QCD phase diagram. BNL, USA Fluctuations at the QCD phase transition from dynamical models. Nagoya University, Japan From the R AA and v 2 to azimuthal correlations: what can we learn from heavy-quark observables?. University of Torino, Italy The QCD phase transition in nonequilibrium chiral fluid dynamics. CEA Saclay, France Nonequilibrium fluctuations in chiral fluid dynamics. Duke University, Durham, USA Nonequilibrium fluctuations at the QCD phase transition. SUBATECH, Nantes, France Invited Workshop Talks November 5, 2015 July 31, 2015 June 10, 2015 February 26, 2015 May 13-16, February 11-22, November 14-17, 2012 October 03-06, 2011 Dynamical description of fluctuations in heavy-ion collisions. Fluctuations in Strongly Interacting Hot and Dense Matter: Theory and Experiment EMMI Workshop Fluctuations in transport models for heavy-ion collisions. HIC for FAIR workshop on Fluctuation and Correlation Measures in Nuclear Collisions, FIAS, Frankfurt, Germany Dynamical Modeling of Fluctuations at the QCD Phase Transition in Heavy- Ion Collisions. Workshop "Beam Energy Scan and Associated Theory, RHIC and AGS Annual Users Meeting, BNL, USA Fluid dynamics and fluctuations in the QCD phase diagram. Beam Energy Scan Workshop, BNL, USA Theory: Heavy quark production. STAR collaboration meeting, Frankfurt, Germany Fluctuations in Transport Models. EMMI Rapid Task Force, GSI, Germany From the R AA to azimuthal correlations: what can we learn from heavy-quark observables?. 5th International workshop on heavy quark production at LHC, Utrecht, Netherlands Fluctuations of Conserved Charges within Dynamic Models of Heavy-ion Collisions. BNL workshop Fluctuations, Correlations and RHIC Low Energy Runs, BNL, USA Selected Conference Talks November 17-21, May 19-24, Fluid dynamics and fluctuations in the QCD phase diagram. 9th international workshop on critical point and onset of deconfinement, Bielefeld, Germany Correlations and higher-order flow: new heavy-quark observables in relation to the bulk dynamics. Quark Matter, Darmstadt, Germany Dr. Marlene Nahrgang 4/5
Nov/Dec, July 21-27, March 11-15, September 25-28, 2012 August 13-18, 2012 November 7, 2011 May 27, 2011 February 20-25, 2011 June 21-26, 2010 November 26, 2010 June 07-11, 2010 September 15-19, February 08-14, Fluctuations at the QCD phase transition from dynamical models. New Frontiers in QCD, Kyoto, Japan, November-December From the R AA to azimuthal correlations: what can we learn from heavy-quark observables?. Strangeness in Quark Matter, Birmingham, UK Dynamic Enhancement of Fluctuation Signals at the QCD Phase Transition. 8th international workshop on critical point and onset of deconfinement, Napa Valley, USA Heavy-quark observables in a fluid dynamical medium: RHIC/LHC. Rencontres QGP-France 2012, Etretat, France complementarity Dynamic enhancement of event-by-event fluctuations at the critical point and domain formation at the first-order phase transition of QCD. Quark Matter 2012, Washington DC, USA Dynamic fluctuations near the chiral phase transition. 7th International workshop on critical point and onset of deconfinement, Wuhan, China Net-baryon-, net-proton-, and net-charged particle kurtosis in heavy-ion collisions within a relativistic transport approach. Quark Matter 2011, Annecy, France The QCD phase diagram (in chiral fluid dynamics). Excited QCD, Les Houches, France Non-equilibrium fluctuations in chiral fluid dynamics at the QCD phase transition. Hot Quarks 2010, La Londe les Maures, France Nonequilibrium fluctuations at the QCD phase transition. Mini-Workshop Frankfurt-Lisboa, Lisbon Nonequilibrium fluctuations in chiral fluid dynamics including dissipation and noise. Berkeley School of Collective Dynamics, Berkeley, USA Fluid Dynamics with a Critical Point. Flow and Dissipation in Ultrarelativistic Heavy Ion Collisions, Trento, Italy Hydrodynamics with a critical end point. Excited QCD, Zakopane, Poland Popular Scientific Talks November 13-16, November 04, Das Phasendiagram der starken Wechselwirkung (The phase diagram of the strong interaction). Forum of Ph.D. students by Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes (German Academic Scholarship Foundation) Kurz nach dem Urknall und bald bei FAIR: Der Phasenübergang der starken Wechselwirkung (Shortly after the Big Bang and soon at FAIR: The phase transition of the strong interaction). GSI Helmholtz Center for Heavy-Ion Research for the Stiftung Polytechnische Gesellschaft Frankfurt am Main Dr. Marlene Nahrgang 5/5