Theory Senior Staff
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Marc Vanderhaeghen Theory Center Senior Staff Assistant Professor of Physics College of William and Mary |
Born in Brugge, Belgium, 1967; degree in civil engineering / physics, University of Gent, Belgium, 1990; PhD University Gent, Belgium, 1995; Postdoctoral appointments: SPhN / DAPNIA Saclay, France, 1995 - 1998; Institute for Nuclear Physics at the Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany, 1998 - 2000; Habilitation in theoretical physics, University Mainz, 2000; Privatdozent at the University Mainz, 2000 - 2003; Senior Staff Scientist, Jefferson Lab, 2003 - present; Assistant Professor of Physics, College of William and Mary, 2003 - present; Author of 62 papers on electromagnetic structure of hadrons and hard processes in QCD.
Research Highlights:
- QCD and exclusive processes
- generalized parton distributions
- two-photon exchange processes
- real and virtual Compton scattering processes
- chiral symmetry predictions for electromagnetic processes
- spin structure of the nucleon, sum rules
- photo and electroproduction as a probe of hadron structure


