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Prof. dr. Gerhard Raven is a Full Professor of Experimental High Energy Physics at VU Amsterdam and a senior staff member at Nikhef. He completed his PhD at Utrecht University in the mid-1990s, having begun his research career at Nikhef. He subsequently spent time at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in California, where he contributed to the BaBar experiment: a dedicated B-physics experiment studying CP violation. He then joined the LHCb experiment at CERN, becoming a long-standing member of the VU Amsterdam and Nikhef LHCb group, where he has held a professorship. Together with colleagues Mara Senghi Soares and Wouter Hulsbergen, he was awarded the 2025 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics as part of the LHCb collaboration.
