Tom Reichert, postdoc at FIAS for the past two years, will be conducting research at Berkeley in the future. A Branco Weiss Fellowship will fund his research with CHF 600,000 over five years. Starting in January 2026 at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Berkeley, California (USA), Reichert will work with Volker Koch to investigate the formation of the fastest rotating vortices of quarks and gluons, which are created in collisions of atomic nuclei and polarize matter.