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.
Next Meeting dates:
- October 22, 2021 / 4 pm
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 |
Technical 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. 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 |
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 |
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. Frank Maas
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Institute for Nuclear Physics J.-J.-Becherweg 45 55128 Mainz Tel.: +49 6131 39-27447 Email | Homepage |
Deputy Technical Director Structural Initiative: Mainz Energy-Recovering Superconducting Accelerator (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 |
Deputy 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. Randolf Pohl
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Institute for Physics Quantum, Atomic and Neutron Physics (QUANTUM) Staudingerweg 7 55128 Mainz Tel.: +49 6131 39-22279 Email | Homepage |
Section Leader Research Area B: Precision physics at the low-energy frontier Research: Atomic physics, exotic atoms, muonic atoms, precision laser spectroscopy, nuclear physics, fundamental constants |
Professor Dr. Dieter Ries
Professor Dr. Matthias Schott
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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 C: Exploring the weakly interacting universe Research: Electroweak precision physics at hadron colliders, search for axion-like particles, development andconstruction of micro-pattern gas detectors |
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 |
Deputy 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 |
Deputy Section Leader Research Area A: Exploring the intensity frontier at MESA 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. Stefan Weinzierl
Professor Dr. Hartmut Wittig
Professor Dr. Michael Wurm
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Institute of Physics Experimental Particle and Astroparticle Physics (ETAP) Staudingerweg 7 55128 Mainz Tel.: +49 6131 39-23928 Email | Homepage |
Section Leader Research Area C: Exploring the weakly interacting universe Research: Low energy neutrino physics: search for sterile neutrinos in the SOX experiment, spectroscopy of solar neutrinos in the Borexino experiment, preparation and construction of the JUNO detector for determining the neutrino mass hierarchy, further development of organic liquid scintillators for future neutrino experiments |