CURRICULUM VITAE

Jon-Ivar Skullerud

Personal Details

Name :	Jon-Ivar Skullerud
Contact Address :	Department of Theoretical Physics Maynooth University Maynooth County Kildare IRELAND
Telephone :	+353-1-708 3678 (work)
Email :	jonivar@thphys.nuim.ie

Education

Doctor of Philosophy in Theoretical Physics
Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Edinburgh, Scotland. (1996)
Supported by the Norwegian Research Council.
Title of thesis: ``Renormalisation in lattice QCD''.

Candidatus Magisterii in Philosophy
University of Trondheim, College of Arts and Sciences, Trondheim, Norway. (1992)

Professional Engineer in Physics
University of Trondheim, Norwegian Institute of Technology (NTH), Trondheim, Norway. (1991)
Title of thesis: ``Materie og krefter i kvantefeltteorien -- et forsøk på filosofisk belysning'' (``Matter and forces in Quantum Field Theory -- an attempt at a philosophical elucidation'').

Work Experience

from September 2016
Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in the Department of Theoretical Physics, National University of Ireland Maynooth.

September 2016 - August 2019
Head of Department, Department of Theoretical Physics, National University of Ireland Maynooth.

September 2007 - September 2016
Lecturer in the Department of Mathematical (now Theoretical) Physics, National University of Ireland Maynooth.

October 2003 - August 2007
Postdoctoral Fellow at the School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.

October 2001 - October 2003
Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Theoretical Physics (ITF), University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

October 1999 - September 2001
EU TMR Fellow at Deutsche Elektron-Synktrotron, Hamburg, Germany, under the network Finite Temperature Phase Transitions in Particle Physics.

September 1996 - September 1999
Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Physics and Mathematical Physics, University of Adelaide, Australia.

Leadership and administration

Academic

• Representative for Faculty of Science and Engineering to Faculty of Arts, Celtic Studies and Philosophy, 2019 - present
• Member, Academic Programmes Committee, 2016-2019
• Head of Department of Theoretical Physics, 2016-2019
• First year coordinator, Department of Theoretical Physics, 2009-2011 and 2016-2019
• Faculty of Science and Engineering, Teaching and Learning Committee, member 2012-2019
• International Particle Physics Outreach Group, Irish representative, 2012 - present
• Maynooth Access Programme Academic Advisor, 2011-2014
• Panel of independent chairs for PhD vivas, NUIM, 2009-2012
• Trinity Research Staff Association, interim committee member, 2005
• Seminar co-organiser (CAMS), School of Mathematics, Trinity College Dublin, 2004-06
• Physics and Mathematics Faculty Committee, NTH, Class Rep., 1988-89
• Physics Department Committee, NTH, 1987-88

Non-academic

• cyclist.ie, Council member (Maynooth representative), 2010 - present
• Dublin Cycling Campaign, Committee member, 2005-07
• Dublin Transport Office Cycle Forum, User group representative, 2004-05
• Bicycle Institute of South Australia, Committee member, 1998-99
• Edinburgh University Green Society, Treasurer, 1994-95
• Edinburgh University Green Society, President, 1993-94
• Studentersamfundet i Trondhjem (Trondheim Student House), Vice President, 1989-90
• Trondheim Humanist Student Society, Committee member, 1986-91
• Trondheim Humanist Student Society, Founder and leader, 1986-87
• Norwegian Humanist and Ethical Association (HEF), Board member, 1985-86

Research

• Chair, XIII Quark Confinement and the Hadron Spectrum, Maynooth, 1-6 August 2018.
• Member, Management Committee, COST Action 15213 THOR, 2016 - present
• Member of the Organising Committee, Extreme QCD, Plymouth, 1-3 August 2016. Member of the Organising Committee, Irish Quantum Foundations, Maynooth, 26-27 May 2016.
• Member of the Organising Committee, Irish Quantum Foundations, Castletown House, Celbridge, 3-4 May 2013.
• Member of the Organising Committee, Irish Quantum Field Theory Meeting, Maynooth, 16-17 May 2008.

Teaching Experience

From September 2007
I have taught the following courses at Maynooth University:

• MP110 Mechanics and Special Relativity (2016-2018)
• MP112 Mechanics and Modern Physics (2008-2013 and 2015-2016)
• MP203 Statistical and Thermal Physics (2015-2018)
• MP350 Classical Mechanics (2007-2014)
• MP354 Computational Physics 1 (2008-2013 and 2015-2017)
• MP466 Particle Physics (2018-2019)
• MP468 Computational Physics 2 (2007-2016)
• MP803 Technical Presentation Skills in Mathematical Sciences (2012, 2015, 2019)

I have also been involved in the design and delivery of SK120, SK121: Critical Skills for Science (2017-2019).

January - March 2005, April-May 2006, April-May 2007
General relativity and cosmology, 8 week course for 3rd year astrophysics students, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland.

October 2004 - May 2005
Tutor in mathematics for engineers (3E1) at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland.

September 1990 - May 1992
Tutor in philosophy and history of science at the College of Arts and Sciences, Trondheim, Norway.

September 1986 - May 1987
Tutor in mathematics at the Norwegian Institute of Technology, Trondheim, Norway.

History of mentoring and supervision

3 PhD students and 1 Research Masters student supervised to completion
2 postdoctoral researchers mentored.

Publications

My publication list can be found on a separate page

Research funding history

• Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe: "Pushing the strong interaction past its breaking point Phase III: Towards quantitative understanding of the quark-gluon plasma" (co-PI), 14/03/2016-13/03/2017. 23mill core-hours.
• UK Science and Technologies Facilities Council (STFC): "Extreme QCD: Quantifying the QCD phase diagram" (co-PI), 01/01/2016-31/12/2018. 400mill core-hours.
• Irish Centre for High-End Computing Class B award: "Pushing the strong interaction past its breaking point with highly anisotropic lattices", nmphy006b (PI), 05/02/2013-05/08/2014. 600,000 core-hours.
• UK Science and Technologies Facilities Council: "Extreme QCD: Towards quantitative understanding of the QCD phase diagram" (co-PI), 01/01/2014-31/12/2015. 200mill core-hours.
• Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe: ``Pushing the strong interaction past its breaking point. Phase II: Towards quantitative understanding of the quark-gluon plasma (co-PI), 01/11/2012-31/10/2014. 35mill core-hours.
• SFI Short Term Travel Fellowship: ``Transport properties and heavy quarks in the quark-gluon plasma'', 11-RFP-PHY3193-STTF-11 (PI), 04/03-16/04/2012, € 3260.
• Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe: ``Pushing the strong interaction past its breaking point: QCD in the quark-gluon plasma phase'' (co-PI), 01/11/2011-31/08/2012. 22.7mill core-hours.
• SFI Research Frontiers Programme: ``The phase structure of strongly interacting dense matter'', 11-RFP-PHY3193 (PI), 01/09/2011-31/08/2015. € 143 808.
• SFI Research Frontiers Programme: ``Thermodynamics of the quark-gluon plasma with anisotropic lattices'', 08-RFP-PHY1462 (PI), 01/08/2008-31/07/2011. € 162 406.
• DEISA Extreme Computing Initiative: ``Lattice QC₂D at high baryon density'' (co-PI), 01/04/2010-30/09/2010. 2mill core-hours.
• Irish Centre for High-End Computing Class B award: ``Hot QCD simulations on anisotropic lattices'', nmphy003b (PI), 28/10/2009-27/01/2012. 500,000 core-hours, 2TByte storage.
• Irish Centre for High-End Computing Class A award: ``Lattice Quantum Chromodynamics'', tcphy017a (co-PI), from 13/03/2010.

Workshops, Conferences, Summer Schools

Invited conference talks

Propagators and vertices from the lattice, Non-perturbative QFT in Euclidean and Minkowski, Coimbra, 10-12 September 2019.

Hadrons at high T, COST Action Theory of hot matter and relativistic heavy-ion collisions, THOR Annual Meeting, Istanbul, 2-6 September 2019

Thermal D mesons from lattice QCD, Hadrons under extreme conditions, COST Action CA15213 "Theory of hot matter and relativistic heavy-ion collisions" Working Group Meeting, Swansea, 12-14 September 2017

Phases and facets of 2-colour matter, New Directions in Subatomic Physics, CSSM, Adelaide, 7-10 March 2016

Quark-gluon plasma phenomenology from anisotropic lattice QCD, Quark Confinement and the Hadron Spectrum XI, St Petersburg, 8-12 September 2014.

Charmonium and charm diffusion from N_f=2 and N_f=2+1 lattice QCD, Heavy quarks and quarkonia in thermal QCD, Trento, 2-5 April 2013.

Heavy quarks in the quark-gluon plasma, Gauge field dynamics in and out of equilibrium, INT, Seattle, 5 March - 13 April 2012.

A quarkyonic phase in 2-color QCD?, Chiral symmetry and confinement in cold, dense quark matter, Trento, 19-23 July 2010.

Gluons, quarks and deconfinement at high density, International Workshop on QCD Greens Functions, Confinement, and Phenomenology, Trento, 7-11 September 2009.

Charmonium in the quark-gluon plasma, QCD in Extreme Conditions, LNF Frascati, 6-8 August 2007.

Dense 2-colour quark matter, CSSM Workshop on QCD and the Strong Interactions, University of Adelaide, 25-29 September 2006.

Dense 2-colour quark matter, QCD in Extreme Conditions, Brookhaven National Laboratory, 31 July-2 August 2006

The IVth International Conference on Quarks and Nuclear Physics, Madrid, 4-10 June 2006

Computational Hadron Physics, Nicosia, Cyprus, 13-17 September 2005.

QCD and Dense Matter: From Lattices to Stars, INT, Seattle, 12-26 April 2004.

QCD Down Under, Barossa Valley/Adelaide, Australia, 11-19 March 2004.

Aspects of Confinement and Nonperturbative QCD, ECT*, Trento, Italy, 10-17 March 2003.

Workshop on Quark Matter in Particle- and Astrophysics, Rostock, Germany, 27-29 November 2000.

Public understanding of science

Events organised

Particle Physics Masterclasses for secondary school students, at Maynooth University, every year since 2012.

• Four generations of the Higgs boson, with Peter Higgs, Alan Walker, Victoria Martin, Francisca Garay, NUI Maynooth, 2 May 2013 (co-organiser).
• Euroscience Open Forum (ESOF) Scientific Session: Why is the Universe so Massive? The hunt for the Higgs at the LHC, 14 July 2012.

Public lectures

End of the road for atomism?, Maynooth Skeptics Society, NUI Maynooth, November 2012.

End of the road for atomism?, Astro2 (Physics student society), NUI Maynooth, February 2011.

Atomismen ved veis ende? [End of the road for atomism?], Vitenskapsteoretisk Forum [Forum for Theory of Science], Trondheim, Norway, 1 April 2003.

Newspaper articles published

Symmetrier i partikkelfysikken [Symmetries in particle physics], Klassekampen (Norway), 23 and 30 May 1998.

Nøytrinoer -- gåtefulle partikler [Neutrinos -- mysterious particles], Klassekampen (Norway), 20 February 1999.

Universets skjebne [The fate of the universe], Klassekampen (Norway), 28 April 2001.

Other

Irish representative on the International Particle Physics Outreach Group (IPPOG), from 2012.

Other academic achievements

Participated in the International Mathematics Olympiad, Joutsaa, Finland, July 1985.

Referee for Annals of Physics, Physical Review C, Physical Review D, Physical Review Letters, Physics Letters B and Journal of High Energy Physics.

Other

Regular translator (English to Norwegian) of George Monbiot's weekly column in The Guardian, 2001-2015. Translated his book The Age of Consent, 2004. Other occasional English-Norwegian translation work.