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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

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