Short CV
1994-1999
Doctoral thesis, University of Karlsruhe (summa cum laude)
2000-2002
Marie-Curie-Fellow (EU), Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Italy
2002-2008
Head of Emmy Noether Young Investigator Group (DFG), University of Karlsruhe
since 2004
Research at Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, USA (BaBar collaboration)
since 2008
W3-Professor, Institute of Nuclear Physics, University of Mainz Research at Mainzer Mikrotron MAMI and GSI (PANDA experiment)
since 2009
Section Leader, Helmholtz Institute Mainz
since 2012
Co-Spokesperson of SFB/CRC 1044, The Low-Energy Frontier of the Standard Model
Section Leader, PRISMA Cluster of Excellence
Research at IHEP, Beijing (BES-III collaboration)
2013-2016
Head of the Section "Hadron and Nuclear Physics" of the German Physical Society
2016-2019
Acting Director of the Institute of Nuclear Physics
Research Interests
- Hadron physics with electromagnetic probe
- Precision measurements of hadronic cross sections
- Hadron spectroscopy (light quark and charm sector)
- Flavour physics (kaon, B, charm)
- Hardware: tracking detectors
Key Publications
- The tracking detector of the KLOE experiment
M. Adinolfi et al. [KLOE collaboration] Nucl. Instrum. Meth. A 488 (2002) 51 - Measurement of σ(e+e-→π+π-γ) and extraction of σ(e+e-→π+π-) below 1 GeV with the KLOE detector
A. Aloisio et al. [KLOE collaboration] Phys. Lett. B 606 (2005) 12 - Measurements of the absolute branching ratios for the dominant KL decays, the KL lifetime, and Vus with the KLOE detector
F. Ambrosino et al. [KLOE collaboration] Phys. Lett. B 632 (2006) 43 83 - Evidence for D0–anti-D0 mixing
B. Aubert et al. [BaBar collaboration] Phys. Rev. Lett. 98 (2007) 211802 - Measurement of the γγ*→π0 transition form factor
B. Aubert et al. [BaBar collaboration] Phys. Rev. D 80 (2009) 052002 - Search for Light Gauge Bosons of the Dark Sector at the Mainz Microtron
H. Merkel et al. [A1 collaboration] Phys.Rev.Lett. 106 (2011) 251802 - Observation of a charged charmoniumlike structure in e+e- to pi+pi-J/psi at \sqrt{s}=4.26 GeV
M. Ablikim et al. [BES III collaboration] Phys. Rev. Lett. 110 (2013) 252001 arXiv: 1303.5949