Jean Cleymans is a Belgian physicist and a professor at the University of Cape Town. He has made considerable contributions to the area of plasma and particle physics with a particular focus on relativistic heavy-ion collisions.
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Education
Cleymans obtained his doctorate in physics at the Université catholique de Louvain in Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium and completed his post-doctoral thesis on habilitation in theoretical and condensed matter physics at the University of Bielefeld, Germany.
Work
Cleymans has carried out much of his research at the Large Hadron Collider of the CERN in Geneva, Switzerland as well as at the Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research at Darmstadt, Germany and the Nuclotron-based Ion Collider Facility in Russia. Together with professor Zeblon Vilakazi, he has been instrumental in establishing the SA-CERN programme, the successor to the UCT-CERN Research Centre. He also contributed to the SA-Joint Institute for Nuclear Research with Russia and was Leader of the UCT-ALICE Collaboration at CERN.
Cleymans has authored or co-authored more than 300 refereed articles on theoretical physics in journals such as the European Physical Journal Physical Review and Physics Letters, which have garnered over 16 000 citations. He also edited two books and contributed one book chapter. He has also acted as referee for Physical Review and Physics Letters and served as chairman of the SA-CERN Programme. To date, he has supervised 21 MSc and 13 PhD students.