Dr. Christian Schmidt | Computational QCD | Research Excellence Award 

Bielefeld University | Germany

Dr. Christian Schmidt is a senior researcher at the Faculty of Physics, Bielefeld University, Germany, and an internationally recognized expert in theoretical and computational high-energy physics, with a primary focus on Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) under extreme conditions. He obtained his Diploma in Physics and Ph.D. (Dr. rer. nat.) from Bielefeld University, and completed his habilitation (PD) in Physics in 2017. His academic career spans more than two decades, with research appointments at leading institutions including Brookhaven National Laboratory (USA), the University of Wuppertal, and the Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies. Dr. Schmidt’s research addresses fundamental questions on the phase structure of strongly interacting matter at finite temperature and baryon density. A central theme of his work is the exploration of the QCD phase diagram, including the nature of the chiral phase transition and the possible existence and location of the QCD critical end point. He has made pioneering contributions to universal scaling analyses, analytic continuation methods, Lee–Yang and Langer edge singularities, and resummation techniques such as Padé approximants and density-of-states methods, significantly advancing lattice QCD studies at finite chemical potential. He plays a leading role in major international collaborations, including the HotQCD, Bielefeld–Parma, and BNL–Bielefeld–CCNU collaborations, contributing to landmark results on the QCD equation of state, conserved charge fluctuations, and freeze-out conditions in heavy-ion collisions. His work has direct relevance to experimental programs at RHIC, the LHC, and future facilities such as FAIR. In addition, Dr. Schmidt has contributed to the development of high-performance lattice QCD software, including multi-GPU frameworks that enable large-scale numerical simulations.

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