The Deconfinement Transition of QCD / Lecture Notes in Physics Bd.981 (PDF)

Prof. Claudia Ratti received her Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics at the University of Torino (Italy) in 2003. She has been a post-doctoral researcher at the Technical University of Munich (Germany), ECT* in Trento (Italy), State University of New York at Stony Brook (USA) and Wuppertal University (Germany). In 2010 she became junior professor and group leader at Torino University, thanks to a FIRB grant funded by the Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research. In 2014 she became an assistant professor at the Physics Department of the University of Houston. Since 2017 she is a tenured associate professor. Author of more than seventy publications in peer-reviewed international journals, she presented the results of her research in more than a hundred seminars at international conferences and universities. In light of her achievements she has been awarded the '2011 International Zonta Prize for Women in Science', the '2012 Prize "Giuseppe Borgia" for Best Italian Physicist below 35' granted by the Italian Academy of Science (Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei), and the NSF Career Award in 2017. Her research is mainly focused on the study of strongly interacting matter under extreme conditions of temperature and density, such as the one created at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN and the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) at BNL.

Prof. Rene Bellwied is a Distinguished MD Anderson Professor of Physics at the University of Houston, TX, USA. He received his Ph.D. from the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz, Germany, in 1989, and was awarded a Feodor Lynen Fellowship from the Humboldt Foundation to continue his research as a Postdoctoral Fellow at Stony Brook University on Long Island, NY, USA. In 1991 he became an Assistant Professor at Wayne State University in Detroit, where he remained as a Professor until 2010. At the University Houston he became the group leader of the Experimental Nuclear Physics effort, which is involved in the STAR experiment