Frank Geurts is a Professor of Physics & Astronomy at Rice University in Houston, Texas. He earned his Ph.D. from Utrecht University (Netherlands) in 1998 under the late Rene Kamermans for work on light meson production in ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions at the WA98 experiment at CERN's SPS accelerator. Since then, he has worked as a junior scientist in the Digital Design group at Philips Physics Laboratory (a.k.a. “NatLab”) in the Netherlands. In 2000, he joined Rice University as a postdoctoral fellow in the T.W. Bonner Nuclear Lab, working on the STAR experiment, followed by a Fermilab position working on the CMS experiment while stationed at CERN (Geneva, Switzerland). In 2008, he re-joined Rice University as a faculty member where he leads the Experimental Relativistic Heavy Group.

Frank Geurts has been co-convener of the Light Flavor Spectra Physics Working group, Physics Analysis Coordinator, and deputy spokesperson of the STAR Collaboration. He has been involved in the CMS Collaboration as co-lead of the online software group of its Endcap Muon detector systems, and more recently as one of the subsystem managers of the DOE/NP sponsored Endcap Timing Layer of the new CMS MTD detector. Frank Geurts was asked to serve as detector working group co-convener on particle identification for the ATHENA detector proposal at the Electron-Ion Collider, which was later merged with the ECCE proposal into the ePIC collaboration.

Frank Geurts currently serves as co-Spokesperson for the STAR Collaboration.