Evgeny Epelbaum

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Evgeny Epelbaum received his PhD in 2000 from Ruhr University Bochum, Germany, and worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Ruhr University Bochum, Forschungszentrum Jülich in Germany, the Paris-Sud University, and the Jefferson Lab in Virginia. In 2006, he became an associate professor at the University of Bonn, Germany. Since 2010, he has been a full professor of theoretical physics at the Ruhr University Bochum. His research focuses on understanding the structure and dynamics of strongly interacting hadronic and nuclear systems using effective field theory. He is a recipient of the 2021 Faddeev Medal.


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Probing the Helium Nucleus beyond the Ground State

A new electron-scattering experiment challenges our understanding of the first excited state of the helium nucleus. Read More »