The Steering Committee is the main decision-making body of PRISMA+, regarding its overall scientific program, budget planning, appointments, and allocation of internal research funds.
Members of the Committee are:
Professor Dr. Kurt Aulenbacher
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Institute for Nuclear Physics J.-J.-Becherweg 45 55128 Mainz Tel.: +49 6131 39-22804 Email | Homepage |
Director Structural Initiative: Mainz Energy-Recovering Superconducting Accelerator (MESA) Research: Accelerator physics, spin dynamics and polarimetry at accelerators,spin-polarized electron sources, high brightness photo emission, parity violation in electron–nucleon scattering |
Professor Dr. Sonia Bacca
Professor Dr. Niklaus Berger
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Institute for Nuclear Physics Staudingerweg 9 55128 Mainz Tel.: +49 6131 39-26266 Email | Homepage |
Deputy Director Structural Initiative: PRISMA Detector Lab Research: Hadron spectroscopy, lepton flavor violation, muon physics, parity violating electron scattering, silicon pixel tracking detectors, track reconstruction, data acquisition systems |
Professor Dr. Sebastian Böser
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Institute of Physics Experimental Particle and Astroparticle Physics (ETAP) Staudingerweg 7 55128 Mainz Tel.: +49 6131 39-23865 Email | Homepage |
Section Leader Research Area C: Exploring the weakly interacting universe Research: Astroparticle physics, precision measurement of neutrino oscillations, neutrino astronomy, experimental search for supernova neutrinos, large-area photosensor development |
Professor Dr. Volker Büscher
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Institute of Physics Experimental Particle and Astroparticle Physics (ETAP) Staudingerweg 7 55128 Mainz Tel.: +49 6131 39-20399 Email | Homepage |
Deputy Section Leader Research Area D: Physics at high-energy accelerators Research: Experimental high-energy physics, supersymmetry and dark matter, Higgs physics |
Professor Dr. Achim Denig
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Institute for Nuclear Physics J.-J.-Becherweg 45 55128 Mainz Tel.: +49 6131 39-22830 Email | Homepage |
Deputy Section Leader Research Area A: Exploring the intensity frontier at MESA Research: Hadron physics with electromagnetic probesprecision measurements of hadronic form factors, hadron spectroscopy (light quark and charm sector), dark sector physics, hardware: tracking detectors (drift chambers, GEM detectors) |
Professor Dr. Martin Fertl
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Institute of Physics Quantum, Atomic and Neutron Physics (QUANTUM) Staudingerweg 7 55128 Mainz Tel.: +49 6131 39-37687 Email | Homepage |
Deputy Section Leader Research Area B: Precision physics at the low-energy frontier Research: Low-energy tests of fundamental symmetries, physics with ultracold neutrons, precision magnetometry with magnetic resonance techniques,neutrino mass measurement, frequency-based single electron spectroscopy, precision measurement of the muon’s anomalous magnetic moment |
Professor Dr. Florian Hug
Professor Dr. Frank Maas
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Institute for Nuclear Physics J.-J.-Becherweg 45 55128 Mainz Tel.: +49 6131 39-27447 Email | Homepage |
Section Leader Research Area A: Exploring the intensity frontier at MESA Research: Electromagnetic structure of hadrons, parity-violating electron scattering, particle detectors, particle beam polarimetry, cryo-targets, detector electronics |
Professor Dr. Lucia Masetti
Professor Dr. Harvey B. Meyer
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Institute for Nuclear Physics Theory Group J.-J.-Becherweg 45 55128 Mainz Tel.: +49 6131 39-20350 Email | Homepage |
Section Leader Research Area E: Theory and phenomenology of fundamental interactions Research: Lattice QCD, hadron structure, finite-temperature QCD, computational methods in particle physics |
Professor Dr. Matthias Neubert
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Institute of Physics Theoretical High Energy Physics (THEP) Staudingerweg 7 55128 Mainz Tel.: +49 6131 39-23681 Email | Homepage |
Cluster Coordinator and Director Structural Initiative: Mainz Institute for Theoretical Physics (MITP) Research: Theoretical elementary-particle physics, QCD and collider physics, flavor physics and CP violation, effective field theories, physics beyond the Standard Model |
Professor Dr. Uwe Oberlack
Professor Dr. Pedro Schwaller
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Institute of Physics Theoretical High Energy Physics (THEP) Staudingerweg 9 55128 Mainz Tel.: +49 6131 39-20507 Email | Homepage |
Section Leader Research Area D: Physics at high-energy accelerators Research: Beyond the Standard Model physics, collider phenomenology, particle cosmology, baryogenesis, dark matter, physics at future colliders, gravitational waves |
Professor Dr. Concettina Sfienti
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Institute for Nuclear Physics J.-J.-Becherweg 45 55128 Mainz Tel.: +49 6131 39-25841 Email | Homepage |
Representative Irène Joliot-Curie Programme Research: Structure of matter, new particles and interactions, physics of hadrons, strangeness in nuclear physics, neutron stars and the nuclear Equation of State |
Professor Dr. Marc Vanderhaeghen
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Institute for Nuclear Physics Theory Group J.-J.-Becherweg 45 55128 Mainz Tel.: +49 6131 39-23695 Email | Homepage |
Section Leader Research Area B: Precision physics at the low-energy frontier Research: Hadron structure, QCD and exclusive processes, parton distributions, real and virtual Compton scattering processes, spin structure of the nucleon |