Matthias Heinz

Matthias Heinz

Research Scientist, RIKEN Nishina Center for Accelerator-Based Science

I compute the structure of atomic nuclei from nuclear forces, developing the in-medium similarity renormalization group to make ab initio predictions more precise and to quantify their uncertainties.

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Portrait of Matthias Heinz

Research interests

Precision many-body methods

IMSRG(3) and controlled estimates of many-body uncertainties.

Heavy and neutron-rich nuclei

Shell structure, charge radii, and neutron skins.

Physics beyond the Standard Model

Nuclear matrix elements for dark matter and symmetry tests.

Computing for nuclear theory

Quantum algorithms and GPU-scale simulations.

Selected publications

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Honors

  • 2026FRIB Achievement Award for Early Career Researchers
  • 2024Giersch Award for an Outstanding Doctoral Thesis
  • 2024Gerhard Herzberg Research Prize
  • 2024Wigner Distinguished Staff Fellowship, ORNL

Funding

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