Daria Trotsenko

Theoretical particle physicist
Ph.D. student, Harvard University

I am a Ph.D. student in theoretical physics at Harvard University, where I work with Matthew Schwartz. I study quantum chromodynamics, the theory of quarks and gluons, in the regime where it can be solved systematically: high-energy collisions. Using effective field theories and precision perturbative calculations, I try to predict what colliders should see and to understand what their measurements reveal about the inside of protons and other hadrons.

At the moment I am working with Stella Schindler (Los Alamos National Laboratory) on forward neutron production in electron–proton collisions: what QCD has to say about a process that has long been described by a simple pion-exchange model, and that the future Electron-Ion Collider will measure in great detail. More on the research page.

Before Harvard I did my B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Amsterdam, with a master's thesis at Nikhef on the analytic calculation of Drell–Yan angular coefficients at NNLO, which received the KHMW Young Talent Award in theoretical physics. I grew up in Ukraine and began my studies at Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv; more on the about page.