Rate My Professor Jordy de Vries

Jordy de Vries is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Science at the University of Amsterdam and a staff researcher in the Theoretical Physics group at Nikhef, the National Institute for Subatomic Physics. His research centers on theoretical particle and nuclear physics, utilizing chiral effective field theory for precision calculations of low-energy hadronic and nuclear observables pertinent to experiments seeking physics beyond the Standard Model. These efforts encompass neutrinoless double beta decay, beta decays, electric dipole moments, neutrino physics, CP violation in the neutrino sector, dark matter scattering, and cosmic ray interactions with the atmosphere. De Vries also explores neutrinos' contributions to the baryon asymmetry of the universe and connections to astroparticle and multimessenger astronomy programs.

De Vries obtained his Bachelor's and Master's degrees in physics and his PhD in theoretical physics from the University of Groningen. He held a postdoctoral position in Germany, followed by 2.5 years at Nikhef supported by a Dutch research grant, prior to serving as Assistant Professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Since 2021, he has been senior staff at Nikhef and affiliated with the University of Amsterdam, where he advanced to Associate Professor. In December 2025, he was awarded an ERC Consolidator Grant of €2 million for the CRUNS project, funding two postdocs and three PhD students to pioneer theoretical methods for precise computations of common, rare, and unseen beta decays, as well as electron dipole moments, to probe high-energy physics puzzles like the universe's matter-antimatter imbalance and neutrino masses via low-energy experiments. He is involved in collaborations such as NL-eEDM. De Vries has authored over 140 publications, with more than 5700 citations. Notable works include "Ab initio electroweak corrections to superallowed β decays and their impact on Vud" (Physical Review C, 2024), "Radiative Corrections to Superallowed β Decays in Effective Field Theory" (Physical Review Letters, 2024), "Neutrinoless double beta decay rates in the presence of light sterile neutrinos" (Journal of High Energy Physics, 2024), "Probing light sterile neutrinos in left-right symmetric models with displaced vertices and neutrinoless double beta decay" (Journal of High Energy Physics, 2025), and "2νββ spectrum in chiral effective field theory" (Journal of High Energy Physics, 2025). His research shapes advancements in effective field theories and beyond-Standard-Model phenomenology.