Biographical Sketch:
Zoltan Varga is a postdoctoral associate at Yale Wright Lab. Prior to this, he held a research position at the Wigner Research Centre for Physics.
He earned his Ph.D. in Physics from the Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME).
Research:
Zoltan’s research focuses on experimentally studying the strong interaction through high-energy heavy-ion collisions. He is particularly interested in the properties of the quark-gluon plasma (QGP), a deconfined state of QCD matter created in such collisions. As a member of the ALICE collaboration at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), he investigates how jets — collimated sprays of particles resulting from high-energy quark and gluon fragmentation — interact with the QGP using advanced jet substructure techniques, which help probe the medium’s microscopic properties. In parallel, his work explores heavy-flavor production, with a focus on the puzzling enhancement of baryon-to-meson ratios in heavy-flavor hadron yields. By combining insights from both jet quenching and heavy-flavor dynamics, he aims to shed light on the complex processes of hadronization and the evolution of QCD matter under extreme conditions.
Education:
Ph.D., Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME), 2025
Selected Publications:
