Prof. Ana Akrap
Physical sciences, Experimental condensed matter physics
Prof. Dr. Gisela Anton
Nominated by
- German Research Foundation (DFG)
- AcademiaNet member since 17.05.2010
- AcademiaNet- Selection Criteria
Employed by
- Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
- Erlangen Centre for Astroparticle Physics
Academic Discipline/Fields
- Natural sciences, mathematics and statistics
Field
Physical sciences
Area of specialisation
Particle physics
Research interests
Neutrino telescope
Detector development
Distinctions and Awards
Bavarian Order of Merit, 2009
Teaching prize from the State of Bavaria, 2002
Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, 1995
Languages
English, German
Doctorate
- 1983: Teilchenphysik, Suche nach Dibaryonresonanzen ("Particle physics, research into dibaryon resonances")
PostDoc qualification, e.g. Habilitation
- 1993: Teilchenphysik, Photoproduktion von Eta-Mesonen ("Particle physics, eta-meson photoproduction")
Short CV/Education and training
Studied physics at the University of Bonn, Germany
Selected projects
Experimental test of the Gerasimov-Drell-Hearn sum rule
Neutrino telescope ANTARES and KM3NeT
Particle detector AMADEUS
Medical x-ray phase-contrast tomography (PHACT)
Medipix detectors
Membership in scientific bodies/juries
Deputy chairperson of the Particle Physics Division within the German Physical Society since 2009
Member of the Physics Research Committee of the DESY (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron) since 2004
Member of the Committee on Astroparticle Physics, 2004 – 2007
Jury chairperson for the federal level of the competition "Jugend forscht" (Youth in research) since 2003
Prize committee chairperson for the German Physical Society's Kerschensteiner Prize, 2003 – 2007
Member of the advisory committee for the collaborative research group "Hadrons and Nuclear Physics" funded by the BMBF (German Federal Ministry of Education and Research), 2003 – 2006
Member of the supervisory board of the Karlsruhe Research Centre, Germany, 2002 – 2007
Member of the Committee on Hadrons and Nuclear Physics, 2002 – 2005
Member of the review board "Particles, Nuclei, and Fields" for the German Research Foundation, 2000 – 2008
Member of the board of trustees of the Federal Institute for Physical Sciences and Technology, Braunschweig, Germany, since 1999
Jury chairperson of the European competition "EU Contest for Young Scientists", 1995 – 1997
Media coverage
Gisela Anton at Wikipedia
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