Stella Schindler

I am a physicist studying the strong nuclear force that governs the behavior of quarks and gluons, the building blocks of everyday particles like protons and neutrons. I develop new analytic and numerical approaches to explore the structure and dynamics of quark-gluon matter. Sometimes the underlying math that describes the strong force has intriguing overlap with the math describing optics and condensed matter (materials) physics. My research bridges insights and techniques across these fields to advance our understanding.

Recent highlights of my work include developing a rigorous framework for analyzing diffraction at particle colliders and showing how CK symmetry could give rise to new phases of dense quark-gluon matter. You can learn more here. 

Currently, I am a Hoffman Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellow at Los Alamos National Laboratory. There, my advisor is Chris Lee in the experimental Physics Division P-3 and formerly Theoretical Division T-2. I am also an Associate of the Harvard Physics Department, in the high energy theory and artificial intelligence (AI) group of Matt Schwartz. I am a regular at the MIT CTP-LI.