Jaki Noronha-Hostler

Education

• University of Frankfurt 2010 - PhD in Theoretical Physics
• Berea College 2004 - BA with Physics and Mathemtic Majors, Minor German

Biography

Dr. Jacquelyn Noronha-Hostler finished her PhD in Theoretical Physics at the Goethe University in Frankfurt in 2010, during this time she was also a visiting student at Columbia University from 2008-2009 and she received funding from FIAS, GRADED, and the ITP in Frankfurt. For her undergraduate degree she graduated Magma cum Laude from Berea College with a double major in Physics and Mathematics with a minor in German for which she was awarded the Waldemar Noll Scholarship in Physics, the Senior Mathematics Award, and travel funds from the DAAD, NSF, and the Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship. Following her PhD, she obtained a FAPESP postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Sao Paulo, followed by an Associate Research position at Columbia University, and a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Houston. From 2017-2019 she was an Assistant Professor in the Physics and Astronomy Department at Rutgers University where she received the 2018 Alfred P Sloan Fellowship and the 2018 Department of Energy Early Career Award. In 2019 she joined the faculty at the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign as an Assistant Professor. She is currently on the executive committee for the American Physical Society's Division of Nuclear Physics and is a member of the BEST collaboration. She recently finished a 4 year term on the RHIC & AGS User's Executive Committee

Pronouns: she/her

Academic Positions

• 2023-present Associate Professor at the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign
• 2019-2023 Assistant Professor at the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign
• 2017-2019 Assistant Professor at Rutgers University
• 2015-2017 Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Houston
• 2014-2015 Associate Research Scientist at Columbia University
• 2011-2014 Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Sao Paulo
• 2008-2009 Visiting Student Columbia University

Documents

• Hard Probes 2016

Graduate Research Opportunities

Currently seeking graduate students on a wide range of topics in nuclear theory

Research Interests

• Nuclear theory: Relativistic heavy-ion collisions, relativistic fluids (viscous), Lattice Quantum Chromodynamics, Neutron Stars, Phase Transitions, Hadronic Interactions, Computational Physics, Nuclear astrophysics, Neutron Stars

Selected Articles in Journals

• H. Tan, T. Dore, V. Dexheimer, J. Noronha-Hostler and N. Yunes, "ExtremeMatter meets Extreme Gravity: Ultra-heavy neutron stars with crossovers and first-order phase transitions," Phys. Rev. D 105 (2022) 2, 023018
• N. Summerfield, B. N. Lu, C. Plumberg, D. Lee, J. Noronha-Hostler and A. Timmins, "16O16O at RHIC and the LHC comparing alpha clustering vs sub-structure," Phys. Rev. C 104, L041901  (2021).
• H. Tan, J. Noronha-Hostler and N. Yunes, "Neutron Star Equation of State in light of GW190814," Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 261104 (2020).
• T. Dore, E. McLaughlin and J. Noronha-Hostler, "Far-from-equilibrium search for the QCD critical point," Phys. Rev. D 102, 074017 (2020).
• P. Carzon, S. Rao, M. Luzum, M. Sievert and J. Noronha-Hostler, "Possible octupole deformation of 208Pb and the ultracentral v2 to v3 puzzle," Phys. Rev. C 102, 054905 (2020).
• P. Parotto, M. Bluhm, D. Mroczek, M. Nahrgang, J. Noronha-Hostler, K. Rajagopal, C. Ratti, T. Schaefer, M. Stephanov, "QCD equation of state matched to lattice data and exhibiting a critical point singularity," Phys. Rev. C 101, 034901 (2020).
• M. D. Sievert and J. Noronha-Hostler, "CERN Large Hadron Collider system size scan predictions for PbPb, XeXe, ArAr, and OO with relativistic hydrodynamics," Phys. Rev. C 100, no. 2, 024904 (2019).
• G. Giacalone, J. Noronha-Hostler, M. Luzum and J. Y. Ollitrault, Hydrodynamic predictions for 5.44 TeV Xe+Xe collisions, Phys. Rev. C 97, no. 3, 034904 (2018).
• Paolo Alba, Rene Bellwied, Szabolcs Borsanyi, Zoltan Fodor, Jana Guenther, Sandor D. Katz, Valentina Mantovani Sarti, Jacquelyn Noronha-Hostler, Paolo Parotto, Attila Pasztor Israel Portillo Vazquez, Claudia Ratti, Constraining the hadronic spectrum through QCD thermodynamics on the lattice, Phys. Rev. D 96, no. 3, 034517 (2017).
• R. Critelli, J. Noronha, J. Noronha-Hostler, I. Portillo, C. Ratti and R. Rougemont, Critical point in the phase diagram of primordial quark-gluon matter from black hole physics, Phys. Rev. D 96, no. 9, 096026 (2017).
• J. Noronha-Hostler, L. Yan, F. G. Gardim and J. Y. Ollitrault, Linear and cubic response to the initial eccentricity in heavy-ion collisions, Phys. Rev. C 93, no. 1, 014909 (2016).
• J. Noronha-Hostler, B. Betz, J. Noronha and M. Gyulassy, Event-by-event hydrodynamics + jet energy loss: A solution to the RAA - v2 puzzle, Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, no. 25, 252301 (2016)
• J. Noronha-Hostler, J. Noronha and F. Grassi, Bulk viscosity-driven suppression of shear viscosity effects on the flow harmonics at RHIC, Phys. Rev. C 90, 034907 (2014).
• J. Noronha-Hostler, G. S. Denicol, J. Noronha, R. P. G. Andrade and F. Grassi, Bulk Viscosity Effects in Event-by-Event Relativistic Hydrodynamics, Phys. Rev. C 88, 044916 (2013)
• J. Noronha-Hostler, J. Noronha and C. Greiner, Transport Coefficients of Hadronic Matter near T(c), Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 172302 (2009)