Prof Gert Aarts FLSW
Deputy Pro-Vice Chancellor for Postgraduate Research (DPVC-PGR)

UKRI Centre for Doctoral Training in Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning & Advanced Computing





Positions, Panel, Board and Committee membership

  • Member of the Chair Pool of the UKRI Interdisciplinary Assessment College (since 2023)
  • Member of the Advisory Board of the Workshop on Machine Learning approaches in Lattice QCD - An interdisciplinary exchange, Munich, Germany (2023)
  • Member of the Steering Committee of the NuPECC Long Range Plan 2024 (since 2022)
  • Member of Program Committee Lattice field theory for CCP2021, XXXII IUPAP Conference on Computational Physics, Coventry, UK (2021)
  • Deputy Pro-Vice Chancellor for Postgraduate Research (DPVC-PGR), Swansea University (since 1/5/2021)
  • Member of the Royal Society University Research Fellowship Panel (since 2021)
  • Director, European Centre for Theoretical Studies in Nuclear Physics and Related Areas (ECT*), Trento, Italy (since 1/1/2021)
  • Member of the STFC Particle Physics Grants Panel (Theory) (2020-2026)
  • Member of the IAC of the XXXII International Workshop on High Energy Physics: Hot problems of Strong Interactions, Protvino, Russia (2020)
  • Member of the UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship Interview Panel (2020)
  • Director, UKRI Centre for Doctoral Training in Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning & Advanced Computing (AIMLAC) (since 2019)
  • Member of the IAC of Lattice 2019, Wuhan, China (2019)
  • Member of the Kenneth G. Wilson Award for Excellence in Lattice Field Theory Selection Committee (2019)
  • Member of the Joint Scientific Council of FAIR/GSI (since 2018)
  • Member of the Royal Society Newton International Fellowship Panel (2018-2023)
  • Chair (2017-2020) and member (2016-2017) of the Scientific Board of the European Centre for Theoretical Studies in Nuclear Physics and Related Areas (ECT*), Trento, Italy
  • Working group leader and member of the Core Management Committee of EU COST network THOR (2016-2020)
  • Member of STFC Skills and Engagement Advisory Board (SEAB) (2017-2018)
  • Member of the Ken Wilson Lattice Award evaluation panel (2017-2018)
  • Member of the Royal Society Research Fellows Enhancement Award Panel (2017)
  • Member of International Advisory Committees of conference series Strong and Electroweak Matter (SEWM), Extreme QCD (XQCD), SIGN (all ongoing), Lattice 2013
  • Chair of the Physics Panel of the Institutional Review of Research Performance at the National University of Ireland Galway (2015-2016)
  • Chair of the British Council/Newton Fund Panel for Science and Engineering Research and Institutional Links (2013-2016)
  • Member of STFC Ernest Rutherford (2011-2012) and Advanced Fellowship Panel (2010-2011)

Postgraduate supervision

  • Shiyang Chen Machine learning and lattice field theory (since 2023)
  • Diaa Eddin Habibi Machine learning and lattice field theory (since 2023)
  • Chanju Park Learning (from) lattice field theory (with Biagio Lucini, since 2022)
  • Jamie Duell An AI driven population health study (with Shangming Zhou, Xiuyi Fan, Monika Siesenberger, since 2019)
  • Dawid Stasiak Hadrons under extreme conditions (with Tim Burns, 2018-2022 completed)
  • Sergio Chaves Hadron spectroscopy at non zero temperature using Lattice QCD techniques (with Simon Hands, 2018-2022 completed)
  • Dimitrios Bachtis Quantum field-theoretic machine learning and the renormalization group (with Biagio Lucini, 2019-2022 completed)
  • Sam Offler A study of thermal NRQCD with machine learning methods (2017-2021, completed)
  • Felipe Attanasio A study of QCD at finite density using complex Langevin dynamics (2014-2017 completed)
  • Kristi Praki Topics in matter under extreme conditions (2012-2016 completed)
  • Lorenzo Bongiovanni Numerical methods for the sign problem in lattice field theory (2012-2015 completed)
  • Frank James Complex Langevin dynamics as a cure for the sign problem
    (2008-2012 completed)
  • Nathan Laurie Nonequilibrium quantum field dynamics from the 2PI effective action
    (2004-2008 completed)

Teaching


Address: Department of Physics - College of Science - Swansea University - Swansea, SA2 8PP, United Kingdom

Contact: phone: +44 (0)1792 295323 - email: g.aarts@swan.ac.uk - visiting: room 508c, Vivian Tower