Anders Rehult, PhD

Experience

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  Nikhef (Nationaal instituut voor subatomaire fysica)

  Mar 2019 - Jun 2019

  Assistant Technician

  Performed metrology on Large Hadron Collider detector modules for the ALICE experimentOperated heavy machinery during module assemblyManaged uplink to production database

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  CERN

  Jul 2019 - Sept 2019

  Summer Student
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  Nikhef (Nationaal instituut voor subatomaire fysica)

  Nov 2020 - Oct 2024

  PHD Researcher

  In the Nikhef Theory Group, I worked at the interface between particle physics theory and experiment. I dealt with real-world data, often with large and correlated uncertainties, and figured out the best ways to use them.The flagship theory of physics at the smallest distances is known as the Standard Model. It describes with remarkable accuracy almost all the phenomena we see in the tiny quantum world. However, we know that the Standard Model is not the final answer. It doesn’t account for gravity, for the dark matter that makes up most of the mass in the universe, or for the dark energy that seems to cause our universe to expand faster and faster. And it doesn’t explain how large-scale structures like planets and stars can have formed after the Big Bang—according to the Standard Model, matter and antimatter should have been created in equal amounts and then annihilated each other into pure energy. But something tipped the scale, making all the antimatter disappear and leaving enough matter to create us and everything we see when we look out into space. What was that thing?We don’t know, but we know that it involved certain differences between matter and antimatter that we refer to as CP violation. We have observed CP violation in laboratories like the Large Hadron Collider at CERN in Geneva, and my research focused on how to squeeze the most information possible out of these observations. And I didn't stop at the data we currently had available—a big part of my work was coming up with strategies and roadmaps, identifying what we should be measuring in the future to get the biggest bang for our collective buck. Show less

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  University of Amsterdam

  Nov 2021 - Mar 2024

  Teaching Assistant

  I have taught six MSc- and BSc-level courses in physics and programming and co-supervised six MSc thesis projects.

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  KPMG Nederland

  Feb 2025 - now

  Senior Tech Advisory Consultant