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. 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 |
Research: Astroparticle physics, precision measurement of neutrino oscillations, neutrino astronomy, experimental search for supernova neutrinos, large-area photosensor development |
Dr. Andrea Brogna
Professor Dr. Dmitry Budker
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Institute of Physics Quantum, Atomic and Neutron Physics (QUANTUM) Staudingerweg 7 55128 Mainz Email | Homepage |
Research: Testing fundamental symmetries of nature development of all-optical sensors based on atomic vapors and color centers in diamond, zero- and ultralow-field nuclear magnetic resonance (ZULF-NMR), searches for dark matter and dark energy constituents (GNOME, CASPEr), and physics of sodium laser guide stars |
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 39-25830 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. Christoph Düllmann
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Institute for Nuclear Chemistry Fritz-Strassmann-Weg 2 55128 Mainz Tel.: +49 6131 39-25852 Email | Homepage |
Research: Experiments at the limits of stability: exploring physical and chemical properties of superheavy elements New Elements: Production and Z-Identification, chemical properties of transactinides, chemical theory, nuclear chemical studies, high-precision mass measurements of exotic nuclei, radioisotope production, purification and processing for nuclear science experiments |
Professor Dr. Jens Erler
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Institute for Nuclear Physics Theory Group J.-J.-Becherweg 45 55128 Mainz Tel.: +49 6131 39-23636 Email | Homepage |
Research: Global electroweak fits, low energy Standard Model tests, precision measurements at colliders, applications of perturbative QCD,new gauge symmetries, supersymmetry, string theory, Bayesian data analysis |
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 |
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. Wolfgang Gradl
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Institute for Nuclear Physics J.-J.-Becherweg 45 55128 Mainz Tel.: +49 6131 39-25871 Email | Homepage |
Research: Hadron spectroscopy: charmonium and charmonium-like states, amplitude analysis, flavor physics: search for CP-violation and effects of new physics in rare hadronic B-decays and hadronic decays of D mesons |
Professor Dr. Martin Hanke-Bourgeois
Professor Dr. Werner Heil
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Institute of Physics Quantum, Atomic and Neutron Physics (QUANTUM) Staudingerweg 7 55128 Mainz Tel.: +49 6131 39-22885 Email | Homepage |
Research: Electromagnetic structure of the neutron, optical pumping of 3He, nuclear spin-relaxation, hyperpolarised 3He for MR lung imaging, angular correlations in neutron beta-decays, physics with ultra-cold neutrons, search for neutron electric dipole moment |
Professor Dr. Florian Hug
Professor Dr. Tobias Hurth
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Institute of Physics Theoretical High Energy Physics (THEP) Staudingerweg 7 55128 Mainz Tel.: +49 6131 39-22730 Email | Homepage |
Research: Particle physics phenomenology within and beyond the SM, interplay of collider and flavour physics in the New Physics Search, low-energy-supersymmetry, SCET and other field theoretical methods, QCD corrections, CP violation |
Professor Dr. Hans Jockers
Professor Dr. Lutz Köpke
Professor Dr. Joachim Kopp
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
Dr. Harald Merkel
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Institute for Nuclear Physics J.-J.-Becherweg 45 55128 Mainz Tel.: +49 6131 39-25812 Email | Homepage |
Research: Electron scattering experiments, electro-magnetic structure of the nucleon, strangeness in nuclei, parity violating electron scattering, dark photon searches, nuclear astroparticle physics |
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. Stefan Müller-Stach
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. Michael Ostrick
Professor Dr. Josef Pochodzalla
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
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Institute of Nuclear Chemistry Fritz-Straßmann-Weg 2 55128 Mainz Tel.: +49 6131 39-25314 Email | Homepage |
Deputy Section Leader Research Area B: Precision physics at the low-energy frontier Research: Neutron lifetime and electric dipole moment measurement, development of high-intensity sources of ultracold neutrons |
Professor Dr. Ferdinand Schmidt-Kaler
Dr. Christian Schmitt
Professor Dr. Matthias Schott
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Institute of Physics Experimental Particle and Astroparticle Physics (ETAP) Staudingerweg 7 55128 Mainz Tel.: +49 6131 39-25985 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 |
Dr. Christian Smorra
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Institute of Physics Quantum, Atomic and Neutron Physics (QUANTUM) Staudingerweg 7 55128 Mainz Tel.: +49 6131 39-25953 Email | Homepage |
Research: Antimatter and Precision Measurements, Principal Investigator of the ERC project STEP, Development of transportable antiproton traps and precision measurement methods for antiprotons |
Professor Dr. Hubert Spiesberger
Professor Dr. Stefan Tapprogge
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Institute of Physics Experimental Particle and Astroparticle Physics (ETAP) Staudingerweg 7 55128 Mainz Tel.: +49 6131 39-25610 Email | Homepage |
Research: Experimental particle physics, precision measurements of fundamental interactions, search for new physics processes, development of trigger and data acquisition systems, detector developments for upgrades |
Professor Dr. Marc Vanderhaeghen
PD Dr. Georg von Hippel
Professor Dr. Jochen Walz
Dr. Rainer Wanke
Professor Dr. Alfons Weber
Professor Dr. Stefan Weinzierl
Dr. Quirin Weitzel
Dr. Klaus Wendt
Professor Dr. Hartmut Wittig
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Institute for Nuclear Physics Theory Group J.-J.-Becherweg 45 55128 Mainz Tel.: +49 6131 39-26808 Email | Homepage |
Cluster Coordinator and Director Mainz Physics Academy Research: Lattice QCD: precision observables, muon g – 2, nucleon structure, hadron spectroscopy and resonances, machine learning techniques |
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 |
Dr. Felix Yu
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Institute of Physics Theoretical High Energy Physics (THEP) Staudingerweg 7 55128 Mainz Tel.: +49 6131 39-25796 Email | Homepage |
Research: Collider physics, Higgs physics, flavor physics and CP violation, physics beyond the Standard Model, dark matter and dark sectors, supersymmetry, axions and axion-like particles, future colliders and physics beyond colliders |