Christian Drischler

Christian Drischler, portrait photo
Assistant Professor
Clippinger 265, Athens Campus
Institute of Nuclear & Particle Physics

Don't hesitate to contact me if you are interested in a Research Fellowship of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (such as the Feodor Lynen Research Fellowship) hosted by me at Ohio University!

Education

Ph.D., Physics, Technical University Darmstadt, Germany, 2017

M.Sc., Physics, Technical University Darmstadt, Germany, 2014

B.Sc., Physics, Technical University Darmstadt, Germany, 2012

News

Dr. Christian Drischler receives 2024 NSF CAREER Award
Academic Positions

Assistant Professor and FRIB Theory Alliance bridge faculty, Ohio University, 2022-today

FRIB Theory Fellow (Visiting Assistant Professor), Facility for Rare Isotope Beams at Michigan State University, 2020-2022

Humboldt Fellow, University of California, Berkeley, and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 2019-2020

Postdoctoral researcher, University of California, Berkeley, and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 2017-2019

Research

Drischler is a theoretical nuclear physicist. His current research interests include:

  • Neutron stars
  • Equation of state of neutron-rich matter
  • Chiral effective field theory
  • Many-body perturbation theory
  • Bayesian methods for uncertainty quantification
  • Emulators for nuclear physics and model (order) reduction
  • Computational physics

Select publications

Drischler, C., Quinonez, M., Giuliani, P. G., Lovell, A. E., and Nunes, F. M. (2021): Toward emulating nuclear reactions using eigenvector continuation. Phys. Lett. B 823, 136777.

Drischler, C., Holt, J. W., and Wellenhofer, C. (2021): Chiral Effective Field Theory and the High-Density Nuclear Equation of State. Annu. Rev. Nucl. Part. Sci. 71, 403.

Drischler, C., Furnstahl, R. J., Melendez, J. A., and Phillips, D. R. (2020): How well do we know the neutron-matter equation of state at the densities inside neutron stars? A Bayesian approach with correlated uncertainties. Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 202702.

Drischler, C., Hebeler, K., and Schwenk, A. (2019): Chiral interactions up to N3LO and nuclear saturation. Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 042501.

Drischler, C., Hebeler, K., and Schwenk, A. (2016): Asymmetric nuclear matter based on chiral two- and three-nucleon interactions. Phys. Rev. C 93, 054314.

Complete list of Dr. Christian Drischler's publications

Honors

Inaugural FRIB Early Achievement Award (theory),  Facility for Rare Isotope Beams at Michigan State University, 2021

FRIB TA Fellowship, 2020-2022

Feodor Lynen Fellowship of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, 2019-2020

Research Award of the Gerhard Herzberg Foundation at Technical University Darmstadt, 2018

Member

Institute of Nuclear and Particle Physics

American Physical Society

German Physical Society

Bayesian Uncertainty Quantification: Errors in Your EFT (BUQEYE) Collaboration