Nikhef master student Ruben Jaarsma wins Amsterdam Master of Physics and Astronomy Award 2016

18 april 2016

Nikhef master student Ruben Jaarsma has won the

Amsterdam Master of Physics and Astronomy Award 2016

for the best presentation of a master research project at the according symposium 2016. Students of the joined master programmes Physics and Astronomy of the University of Amsterdam and the VU University Amsterdam were competing for this award at the Amsterdam Master of Physics and Astronomy Symposium 2016, which took place on April 15, 2016 at the VU.

Ruben Jaarsma conducts his research on B physics in the Nikhef Theory group under the supervision of Prof. dr. Robert Fleischer (Nikhef and VU) and Dr. Keri Vos (RUG, Van Swinderen Institute). Jaarsma’s talk “Hunting New Physics at the LHC High-Precision Frontier” was able to convince the jury who awarded him 400 Euro for his winning talk.

Caption photo on top: Ruben Jaarsma (middle) at the award ceremony among his fellow competitors for the award