Personal Statement
'It doesn't matter how beautiful your guess [theory] is,
it doesn't matter how smart you are,
if it doesn't agree with experiment, it's wrong.' Richard P. Feynman.

Research Overview
My research and that of my group is concerned with the nature of visible matter in the Universe with a focus on understanding the phase equilibria and dynamics of QCD hadronic matter at high temperature and vanishing net baryon density with heavy-flavour, jet and jet substructure probes.

My group leads new measurements which exploit the unique opportunities offered by the ALICE experiment (and future upgrades) at the CERN Large Hadron Collider (near Geneva, Switzerland) while also planning a new experimental programme at the future Electron-Ion Collider (to be built at Brookhaven National Laboratory in the USA). We are also engaged in an international effort to design the next generation of event generators to simulate the physics of ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions with the JETSCAPE collaboration.

Underpinning my physics research is the engagement of my group in the development of new silicon detector technologies for high-energy particle vertexing and tracking. This activity makes use of the state-of-the-art departmental facilities, such as the Liverpool Semiconductor Detector Centre (LSDC) and builds on decades of expertise in large area Silicon particle detectors in the department.

For enquiries about PhD or post-doctoral research please contact me at m.chartier@liverpool.ac.uk and visit the departmental webpages on Postgraduate and Fellowships opportunities.