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André Mischke (* 1972 in Niebüll, Germany) is Associate Professor of Physics at Utrecht University, the Netherlands. He studied physics and mathematics at the Philipps-University Marburg, where he received his Diploma (M.S. degree) in 1999. His doctoral research has been carried out at the GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy-Ion Research in Darmstadt on hyperon production in heavy-ion collisions with the NA49 experiment at the CERN-SPS facility. In 2002, he received his PhD degree at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main (supervisors: Prof. Dr. Herbert Stroebele and Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Reinhard Stock).

He was a FOM postdoctoral researcher at the National Institute for Subatomic Physics (Nikhef) in Amsterdam. He had temporary appointments with Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Wayne State University. He was Visiting Professor at the University of Birmingham, United Kingdom and, in 2017, he was awarded a August-Wilhelm Scheer Visiting Professorship at the Technical University Munich, Germany.

His main research interest concentrates on the understanding of the behaviour of strongly interacting matter under extreme conditions (quark-gluon plasma formation) and the experimental access via high-energy collisions of heavy atomic nuclei where he focusses on heavy-quark and jet production as key observables. Moreover, he is involved in the development of diagnostic devices in medial imaging.

He has been a member of NA49 Collaboration at the CERN-Super Proton Synchrotron (1997-2003) and STAR Collaboration at Brookhaven National Laboratory (2003-2009, Council Member). His current research activities focusses in the ALICE experiment at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN (since 2006). He is project leader and Deputy Team Leader of the Dutch Research Group in ALICE, where he has several leading roles.

He was awarded several career development grants, namely, the Innovative Research Grants Veni (in 2005), Vidi (in 2008) and Vici (in 2015) from the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO), as well as a Starting Independent Researcher (in 2007) and a Proof-of-Concept Grant from the European Research Council (in 2013). In 2008, he received the Nuclear Physics-Young Scientist Award.

He is member of the Young Academy of Europe (since 2012, Founding president) and the Academia Europaea (since 2016). He was elected as Honorary Fellow of Institute for Advanced Studies at the Technical University Munich in 2017 and Fellow of the UK’s Institute of Physics (IOP) in 2018.

He is a member of several national and international advisory board, such as the General Physics Advisory Committee of the GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy-Ion Research in Darmstadt and the Scientific Advisory Board at Nikhef Amsterdam. He is a member of the Editorial Board of EuroScientist’s and chair of the Board of the Dutch Physical Society, Section Subatomic Physics. Moreover, he is member of the Physics Advisory Board of the Lorentz Center in Leiden from 2018–2022. He was an appointed member of the Executive Committee for the RHIC/AGS Users Group at the Brookhaven National Laboratory from 2007–2009.

He has coauthor more than 350 peer-reviewed publications, has organised numerous national and international conferences, and has supervised the works of 9 postdocs, 18 PhD, 13 Master’s, and 41 Bachelor’s students.