Transport properties of heavy hadrons in a thermal medium

Recent experimental advances in heavy-flavor physics in relativistic heavy-ion collisions motivated us to study the interaction and propagation of heavy hadrons in a thermal bath. In this talk I will present some of our results on the transport of heavy mesons and baryons in a light-hadron gas. I will detail the microscopic interactions based on the application of effective field theories with unitarity constraints, the calculation of heavy-hadron transport coefficients at finite temperature and density, and the implementation of our findings for the hadronic evolution in different transport models of heavy-ion collisions. We compare our results to experimental data and make predictions for collisions at the Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collider and the Large Hadron Collider.