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Dr. Adrian Zink

Dr. Kay Graf

Research

My research focuses on the area of neutrino astronomy, trying to understand the sources of Cosmic Rays and the highest-energetic processes in the universe. This is performed as member of the KM3NeT and ANTARES collaborations; both neutrino detectors in the Mediterranean deep sea.

Within the KM3NeT collaboration, I was coordinating the computing and software working group and – in  this function – member of the project’s steering committee from 2013 to 2023. During his term as chair of the KM3NeT Institute board, I substitute Uli Katz representing ECAP in the board (2020-2024). In addition, I am general manager of ECAP and the technical manager of the Physics Institute at the Friedrich-Alexander University.

My second main interest is in open science and more specifically in open research software, where I am part of several projects (e.g. ESCAPE and EVERSE) and work in several initiatives (e.g. EOSC Groups and SciCodes).

Curriculum Vitae

Awards and Grants:

  • 2006-2008
    grant for PhD thesis from the Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes
  • 2005
    Ohm-award of the  Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nünberg und Helmholtz-Young-Scientist award in astro particle physics for the best diploma thesis of this year
  • 1998
    medal of honour (Ehrenmedaille) of the german army (Bundeswehr)

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Dr. Jürgen Hößl

Dr. Robert Lahmann

Research Activities

I am currently a member of the ANTARES and KM3NeT collaborations (optical neutrino telescopes) and of the ARIANNA and RNO-G collaborations (radio neutrino detection). My prime research topic is the detection of ultra-high-energy (UHE, E > 1017 eV) neutrinos. I was principal investigator of acoustic neutrino detection in ANTARES .  My focus has shifted in the meantime to radio detection of UHE neutrinos.

Priviously, I worked in high energy physics on the OPAL experiment at CERN and the H1 experiment at DESY.

Professional Record

08/2018 – 09/2019 Visiting Professor Department of Physics and Astronomy of the University of California, Irvine
since 03/2012 Assistant Professor (Privatdozent), Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
since 10/2003 Staff Scientist (Akademischer Rat), Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, tenured since 06/2008
05/2000 – 09/2003 Development Engineer for electronic restraint systems (airbags), Robert Bosch GmbH, Stuttgart
09/1996 – 04/2000 Fellow, DESY, Hamburg
01/1992 – 10/1996 Research Assistant, University of Maryland at College Park

Academic Record

Selected Publications

  • R. Lahmann, Investigations of ice and emitter properties from radio signals recorded with ARIANNA, in: Proceedings of the 36th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC 2019), Madison, WI, USA, July 24 – Aug. 1, PoS ICRC2019 (2020), 939 (article on journal server)
  • C. Glaser et al., NuRadioReco: A reconstruction framework for radio neutrino detectors, Eur. Phys. J. C 79 (2019) no.6, 464 (article on journal server), (article on arXiv)
  • S. W. Barwick et al., Observation of classically ‘forbidden’ electromagnetic wave propagation and implications for neutrino detection, JCAP 07 (2018) 055 (article on journal server), (article on arXiv)
  • R. Lahmann et al., Thermo-acoustic sound generation in the interaction of pulsed proton and laser beams with a water target, Astropart. Phys. 65 (2015) p. 69 ( article on journal server), (article on arXiv)
  • J.A. Aguilar et al. (ANTARES Collaboration), AMADEUS – The acoustic neutrino detection test system of the ANTARES Deep-Sea Neutrino Telescope, Nucl. Inst. and Meth. A 626-627 (2011) p. 128 ( article on journal server), (article on arXiv)
  • C. Richardt et al., Reconstruction methods for acoustic particle detection in the deep sea using clusters of hydrophones, Astropart. Phys. 31 (2009), p. 19 (article on journal server)
  • G. Anton et al., Study of piezo based sensors for acoustic particle detection, Astropart. Phys. 26 (2006), p. 301 (article on journal server)

List of my publications with the RNO-G collaboration on inSPIRE
List of my publications with the ARIANNA collaboration on inSPIRE
List of my publications with the KM3NeT collaboration on inSPIRE
List of my publications with the ANTARES collaboration on inSPIRE
List of my publications with the H1 collaboration on inSPIRE
List of my publications with the OPAL collaboration on inSPIRE

Recent Conference and Seminar Talks

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36th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC 2019), Madison, WI (USA), July 2019: "Investigations of ice and emitter properties from radio signals recorded with ARIANNA"


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Seminar talk at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego (USA) April 2019: "Acoustic detection of neutrinos"


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8th International Workshop on Acoustic and Radio EeV Neutrino Detection Activities (ARENA 2018), Catania (Italy): "History of acoustic neutrino detection" (invited talk)


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5th International Workshop on Very Large Neutrino Telescopes (VLVnT 2011), Erlangen (Germany), Oct. 2011: "Neutrino Detection, Position Calibration and Marine Science with Acoustic Arrays in the Deep Sea" (invited talk)


Patents

Triggers and firing decisions do not only matter in experimental particle physics. I am principal inventor or co-inventor of several patents for the Robert Bosch GmbH concerning electronic restraint systems. Here you can find a selection.

Prof. Dr. Christopher van Eldik

Research

Gamma-ray astronomy with H.E.S.S., CTA and SWGO

I am working with the H.E.S.S. instrument, the currently leading experiment for very-high-energy gamma-ray astronomy. H.E.S.S. is an array of five imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes and is located in the Khomas Highlands of Namibia. H.E.S.S. detects gamma-rays with an energy of larger than 50 GeV: although the atmosphere of the earth is opaque to photons of such high energy, they can be detected from ground because when absorbed in the atmosphere gamma-rays produce Cherenkov light. With 100 square-metre mirrors on the four small H.E.S.S. telescopes and the 600 square-metre mirror of the large H.E.S.S. telescope, this Cherenkov light is collected and recorded by very sensitive cameras.

Gamma-ray astronomy explores the sky with photons of energies at least a million times higher than the energy of visible light. As opposed to the photons of visible light, which are mainly emitted by the hot surfaces of stars, photons of gamma-ray energies cannot be produced by thermal processes. There is simply no celestial body hot enough to emit photons of gamma-ray energies. Instead, acceleration processes are believed to be taking place in some of the most violent places of the universe, such as in active galactic nuclei or remnants of star explosions. Charged particles like electrons, positrons, protons or atomic nuclei are believed to be accelerated in such sources to very high energies.

Gamma-ray astronomy is a most valuable tool to make the sites of acceleration visible and to study the physics processes that take place in these sources. On their way to earth charged particles get significantly deflected by the galactic magnetic field, and therefore do not point back to their production origin. Instead, neutral gamma-rays, produced in interactions of the accelerated particles with magnetic fields, photons, or intergalactic gas, travel on a straight path to earth. Therefore, their direction of origin points back to where they got produced, which is often close to the accelerators of the charged particles.

The Cherenkov Telescope Array CTA will become the successor of the currently operating ground-based gamma-ray instruments. With about 150 telescopes, it will allow for a 10 times better sensitivity to gamma rays as H.E.S.S. at TeV energies, while extending the energy coverage to a range starting from several 10 GeV to more than 100 TeV.

Bachelor and Master Thesis projects

If you are interested in working in our group on hardware, software or analysis-related opportunities, please get in contact with me.

Proposals for Bachelor’s and Master’s thesis topics (last update: 06/2023)

Academic Background

since 09/2011
Professor for Experimental Physics at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU)

10/2010-02/2011
Visiting Professor at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg

01/2005-08/2011
Postdoctoral Research Associate at MPI für Kernphysik, Heidelberg, Germany

01/2000-12/2004
Postdoc and PhD studies at DESY, Hamburg, Germany, and Dortmund University, Dortmund, Germany

Academic Community Work

Mentor in the Ariadne Mentoring Program of the FAU

Dean of Study Affairs of the Physics Department (FAU)

Executive Board member of the Physics Department (FAU)
Executive Board member of the Institute of Physics (FAU)
Executive Board member of ECAP

Scientific Community Work

Reviewer and Tutor for the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
Reviewer for the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft

Editor of Proc. Sci. Texas 2010 Symposium
Referee for Astroparticle Physics
Referee for The Astrophysical Journal
Referee for Nuclear Instruments and Methods A

Co-Organiser of the Gamma 2008 symposium
Co-Organiser of the Texas 2010 symposium
Co-Organiser of the IAU symposium SED 2011
Co-Organiser of the HAP Workshop Non-thermal Universe
Co-Organiser of the International School for Astroparticle Physics

Current Projects

Very High Energy Gamma-Ray Astronomy with the H.E.S.S. Instrument
Member of the H.E.S.S. Collaboration

Interests

  • Gamma-ray emission from the Galactic Centre region
  • Hunt for the sources of (Galactic) Cosmic Rays
  • Search for gamma-ray signals from Dark Matter annihilations
  • Machine learning techniques for gamma-ray analysis
  • Statistical methods in (astro-)particle physics

Duties

  • Deputy Director of H.E.S.S. (2016-2019)
  • Member of the H.E.S.S. Executive Board (2013-2019)
  • Member of the H.E.S.S. Observation Time Allocation Committee (2013-2019)
  • Member of the H.E.S.S. Collaboration Board (since 2011)
  • Convener of the H.E.S.S. Analysis and Reconstruction Working Group (2013-2016)

Design and Preparation of the CTA Observatory
Member of the CTA Consortium

Interests

  • Hunt for the sources of (Galactic) Cosmic Rays
  • Gamma-ray astrophysics of the Galactic Centre region
  • Searches for Dark Matter in the Galactic Centre Halo

Commitments

  • Development of a compact mass testing facility for CTA mirror tiles
  • Development of a system to calibrate the MST telescope pointing

Design and Preparation of the SWGO Observatory
Member of the SWGO Collaboration

Prof. Dr. Stefan Funk

Before coming to ECAP Stefan Funk was a faculty member in the Physics department at Stanford University and the SLAC National Accelerator Center in the Kavli Center for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology (KIPAC). His research in the field of astroparticle physics is centered on the search for the origin of cosmic rays and the understanding of dark matter. He is a member of the Fermi-LAT (Large Area Telescope) satellite detector and of the H.E.S.S.-Experiment (High Energy Stereoscopic System), a system of imaging Cherenkov telescopes, located in Namibia. He is a member of the Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory (CTAO), a next-generation flagship astroparticle physics project to observe gamma rays at the highest energies.
Besides his research in gamma-ray astronomy, Stefan Funk is developing methods for future gravitational wave detectors (phase camera for the Einstein Telescope) and is very active in technology transfer e.g. into medical applications.
Since November 2014 he holds the chair of physics at FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg.

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PD Dr. Thomas Eberl

 

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My main field of interest is particle and neutrino physics, as well as neutrino astronomy.

I am a member of the ANTARES and KM3NeT collaborations. In ANTARES, I am a member of the experiment’s steering committee and institute board. My task is to coordinate the development and maintenance of data analysis tools. In addition, I co-coordinate the astrophysics working group. In KM3NeT, I am a member of the publication committee.

Previously, I worked in heavy-ion and hadron physics as a member of the HADES collaboration at TUM and GSI/FAIR, Darmstadt, and in computational astrophysics at MPA, Garching.

 

I am interested in the development and the application of machine learning methods to data analysis. I am a fellow of the European Coalition for AI in Fundamental Physics.

Information for students

Information for students

List of supervised theses

A list of projects and theses that I have supervised or co-supervised.

  • Bachelor’s Theses
    • Mona Dentler, Investigation of the One-Particle Approximation in the ANTARES simulation package KM3, 2012
    • Thomas Heid, Simulation Response of the optical modules in the ANTARES neutrino telescope, 2012
    • Maximilian Müller, Atmosphärische Myonen mit ANTARES, 2012
    • Thomas Kittler, Erweiterung der Ereignisklassifizierung des ANTARES Neutrinoteleskops mittels Random Decision Forests, 2012
    • Veronika Ludwig, Elektronneutrino-Untergrund bei der Bestimmung der Neutrinomassenhierarchie mit ORCA, 2013
    • Michael Moser, Investigation and simulation of cascade-like neutrino events in ANTARES, 2014
    • Maximilian Schandri, Untersuchung von Biolumineszenz im ANTARES Neutrinoteleskop, 2015
    • Fabian Dawel, Untersuchung von Tauneutrinosimulationen für KM3Net-ORCA, 2016
    • Michail Goldes, Studies of the Influence of the Earth´s Topography on the Atmospheric Neutrino Flux, 2016
    • Sebastian Schindler, Study on detection of michel electrons in Super-ORCA, 2017
    • Patrick Heuer, Analysis of neutrino event generators for KM3NeT/ORCA, 2018
    • Jelena Celic, Unsupervised learning for identification of event topologies in ORCA, 2018
    • Benjamin Schwab, Alignment of KM3NeT/ORCA – Calibration of the AHRS data and investigation of the sea current, 2018
    • Sebastian Konrad, Sensitivity studies with intrinsic limit neutrino resolution for KM3NeT/ORCA, 2018
    • Julia Häfner, Reconstruction of the energy of muons and muon bundles via Graph Neural Networks in the ORCA detector, 2021
    • Lukas Hennig, Studies on systematic influences of the detector calibration on the reconstruction performance of Graph Neural Networks in KM3NeT, 2021
    • Sebastian Weissbrod, Sensitivity of KM3NeT/ORCA6 to tau neutrino appearance with Graph Neural Network tau neutrino identification, 2024
  • Master’s and Diploma Theses
    • Sebastian Scholz, Untersuchung verschiedener Strategien für die Rekonstruktion von Myonenspuren mit dem ANTARES Detektor, 2007
    • Florian Folger, Reconstruction of neutrino-induced hadronic showers with the ANTARES neutrino telescope, 2009
    • Jutta Schnabel, Muon energy reconstruction for the neutrino telescope ANTARES using neural networks, 2010
    • Klaus Geyer, Ereignisklassifikation mit Hilfe von Neuronalen Netzen für das ANTARES Neutrinoteleskop, 2010
    • Stefanie Wagner, Entwicklung und Analyse eines Hitselektionsalgorithmus für Niedrigenergieereignisse im ANTARES Neutrinoteleskop basierend auf einer Hough-Transformation, 2010
    • Boris Bauermeister, Untersuchungen zur Nachweiseffizienz und zeitlichen Stabilität der Datennahme des ANTARES Neutrinoteleskops, 2010
    • Andreas Gleixner, Spezielle Methoden zur Berechnung der Geometrie des ANTARES-Detektors, 2011
    • Stefan Geißelsöder, Classification of events for the ANTARES neutrino detector, 2011
    • Gerold v. Lachemair, Muon energy reconstruction for ANTARES in the low-energy range using artificial neural networks, 2011
    • Thomas Heid, Flavor identification in ORCA, 2013
    • Oskar Schneider, Influence of bioluminescence on the ANTARES data taking and track reconstruction, 2013
    • Tamas Gal, Trigger studies for the future neutrino telescope ORCA, 2013
    • Thomas Kittler, Development of an algorithm for the distinction between muon and electron neutrino events for the P2O plausibility study, 2015
    • Michel Kreter, Search for neutrinos from flaring blazars – A time-dependent point source analysis, 2015
    • Steffen Hallmann, Search for a neutrino signal from the Fermi Bubbles with the ANTARES telescope, 2015
    • Marco Volkert, A muon veto for the measurement of the downgoing neutrino flux with KM3NeT/ORCA, 2017
    • Stefan Reck, Investigating systematics for KM3NeT/ORCA using unsupervised Deep Learning, 2018
    • Marc Bruchner, Sensitivity Studies for the ORCA and Super-ORCA Neutrino Detector, 2018
    • Lukas Maderer, Sensitivity to tau-neutrino appearance with the first seven strings of KM3NeT/ORCA, 2019
    • Johannes Schumann, Analysis of first KM3NeT/ORCA Data and Information Field Theory methods applied to ANTARES Data, 2019
    • Nicole Geißelbrecht, Event Classification and Energy Reconstruction for ANTARES using Convolutional Neural Networks, 2021
    • Nadja Lessing, Sensitivity to quantum decoherence in neutrino oscillations with KM3NeT, 2022
    • Martin Schneider, Measuring the attenuation length of seawater in KM3NeT/ORCA with atmospheric muons, 2022
    • Lukas Hennig, Tau neutrino identification with Graph Neural Networks in KM3NeT/ORCA, 2023
    • Yara Darras, Investigations of Hadronic vs Electromagnetic Cascade Identification at The PeV Energy Scale in KM3Net, 2023
    • Bastian Setter, Optimisation of energy reconstruction with sample weights for GNNs in KM3NeT/ORCA6, 2024
    • Michail Chadolias, Detection of low-energy tau neutrinos with the ANTARES neutrino telescope – a feasibility study, 2024
  • PhD Theses
    • Felix Fehr, Systematic studies, calibration, and software development for event reconstruction and data analysis using the ANTARES deep-sea neutrino telescope, 2010
    • Friederike Schöck, Studies on atmospheric neutrino oscillations with the ANTARES neutrino telescope, 2011
    • Holger Motz, Dark matter searches with ANTARES, 2011
    • Florian Folger, Search for a diffuse cosmic neutrino flux using shower events in the ANTARES neutrino telescope, 2014
    • Ulf Fritsch, Cluster search for neutrinos from Active Galactic Nuclei, 2014
    • Kerstin Fehn, Search for neutrinos from TANAMI observed AGN using Fermi loghtcurves with ANTARES, 2015
    • Stefanie Wagner, Search for cosmic neutrino emission from Milagro sources with ANTARES, 2015
    • Klaus Geyer, Measurements of the atmospheric muon rate with the ANTARES neutrino telescope, 2015
    • Stefan Geißelsöder, Model-independent search for neutrino sources with the ANTARES neutrino telescope, 2016
    • Kathrin Roensch, Development of a new reconstruction algorithm for ANTARES events and application to a search for neutrino point sources, 2016
    • Andreas Gleixner, Search for Dark Matter towards the center of the Earth with the ANTARES neutrino telescope, 2016
    • Jannik Hofestädt, Measuring the neutrino mass hierarchy with the future KM3NeT/ORCA detector, 2017
    • Jutta Schnabel, Search for a cosmic neutrino flux from all neutrino flavours with ANTARES, 2018
    • Thomas Heid, Characterizing the diffuse neutrino flux with the future KM3NeT/ARCA detector, 2018
    • Michael Moser, Sensitivity studies on tau neutrino appearance with KM3NeT/ORCA using Deep Learning Techniques, 2020
    • Steffen Hallmann, Sensitivity to atmospheric tau-neutrino appearance and all-flavour search for neutrinos from the Fermi Bubbles with the deep-sea telescopes KM3NeT/ORCA and ANTARES, 2021
    • Stefan Reck, Cosmic-ray composition measurement using Graph Neural Networks for KM3NeT/ORCA, 2022

Teaching

Lectures, seminars, and tutorials

  • Lectures on neutrino physics and neutrino astronomy (2h lecture + 2h exercises, 5 ECTS) continously since winter term 2012/2013
  • Lectures on Experimental methods of astroparticle physics (with I. Jung-Richardt, 2h lecture + 2h exercises, 5 ECTS)
  • Seminar on particle and astroparticle physics since summer term 2014
  • Tutorials for Experimental Physics I and II (mechanics, thermodynamics, electrodynamics) in 2015 – 2018 and 2024 – …

CV

 

Education:

  • 1999-2004: Doctorate in Physics, Technical University of Munich / GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research, Darmstadt
  • 1997-1998: Diploma project, Max-Planck-Institute for Astrophysics, Garching
  • 1992-1998: Studies in Physics, Technical University of Munich

Academic Degrees:

  • 2018: Habilitation, University of Erlangen-Nürnberg
  • 2004: Dr. rer. nat. in Physics, Technical University of Munich
  • 1998: Diploma in Physics (Dipl.-Phys.), Technical University of Munich

Professional Experience:

  • since 2018: Privatdozent at the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg
  • 2008 – : Permanent staff member at the Erlangen Centre for Astroparticle Physics, University of Erlangen-Nürnberg
  • 2007-2008: Postdoctoral researcher, University of Erlangen-Nürnberg
  • 2004-2007: Postdoctoral researcher, Technical University of Munich
  • 1998-2004: Scientific associate, Technical University of Munich / GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research, Darmstadt

Professional Activities:

    • 2022 – : Member of the publication committee of KM3NeT
    • 2020 – 2024: Convener of the KM3NeT working group on machine learning
    • 2018 – : Member of the ANTARES institute board
    • 2018 – : Co-convener of the ANTARES astrophysics working group
    • 2017 : Convener of the KM3NeT working group on ’neutrino event generators’
    • 2014 – 2018 : Convener of the ANTARES working group on ’diffuse neutrino fluxes’
    • 2013 – 2021: Member of the conference and outreach committee of KM3NeT
    • 2010 – : Member of the TANAMI collaboration
    • 2008 – : Coordination of the offline software and event reconstruction development for ANTARES
    • 2008 – : Member of the ANTARES project steering committee
    • 2007 – : Member of the KM3NeT consortium and collaboration
    • 2007 – : Member of the ANTARES collaboration
    • 2007 – : Neutrino astronomy with ANTARES and KM3NeT
    • 2007: Junior professorship (W1, W2 tenure track) at Technical University of Munich and Cluster of Excellence ’Universe’, Garching, declined in favour of a permanent staff position at ECAP
    • 2004-2007: Convener of the HADES working group on ’dilepton analysis’
    • 1998-2007: Heavy ion physics with the High Acceptance Di-Electron Spectrometer at GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research, Darmstadt and member of the HADES collaboration
    • Referee for scientific journals, e.g. European Physical Journal, Computer Physics Communications, …

Publications

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Publication list on: ADS, inspire

Highlighted publications

  • KM3NeT Coll., Search for quantum decoherence in neutrino oscillations with six detection units of KM3NeT/ORCA, JCAP03(2025)039
  • KM3NeT Coll., Observation of an ultra-high-energy cosmic neutrino with KM3NeT, Nature 638, pages 376–382 (2025)
  • KM3NeT Coll., Study of tau neutrinos and non-unitary neutrino mixing with the first six detection units of KM3NeT/ORCA,
  • A. Domi, T.E., M. Fahn, K. Giesel, L. Hennig, U. Katz, R. Kemper, M. Kobler, Understanding gravitationally induced decoherence parameters in neutrino oscillations using a microscopic quantum mechanical model, JCAP11(2024)006
  • KM3NeT Coll., Measurement of neutrino oscillation parameters with the first six detection units of KM3NeT/ORCA, J. High Energ. Phys. 2024, 206 (2024)
  • N. Reeb, …, and ANTARES Coll., Studying bioluminscence flashes with the ANTARES deep-sea neutrino telescope, Limnology and Oceanography: Methods, vol. 21, issue 11, pp. 734-760, 2023
  • KM3NeT Coll., Determining the neutrino mass ordering and oscillation parameters with KM3NeT/ORCA, Eur. Phys. J. C 82, 26 (2022)
  • KM3NeT Coll., Event reconstruction for KM3NeT/ORCA using convolutional neural networks, JINST 15 P10005 (2020)
  • ANTARES Coll., Model-independent search for neutrino sources with the ANTARES neutrino telescope, Astroparticle Physics, Volume 114, p. 35-47, 2020
  • A.V. Akindinov, …, T.E., …, Letter of interest for  neutrino beam from Protvino to KM3NeT/ORCA, Eur. Phys. J. C 79, 758 (2019)
  • ANTARES Coll., An algorithm for the reconstruction of high-energy neutrino-induced particle showers and its application to the ANTARES neutrino telescope, Eur. Phys. J. C 77, 419 (2017)
  • KM3NeT Coll., Intrinsic limits on resolutions in muon- and electron-neutrino charged-current events in the KM3NeT/ORCA detector, JHEP, 207(8), 39, 2017
  • Kadler, M. et al., Coincidence of a high-fluence blazar outburst with a PeV-energy neutrino event, Nature Physics, Volume 12, Issue 8, pp. 807-814 (2016)
  • KM3NeT Coll., Letter of intent for KM3NeT 2.0, Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics, Volume 43, Issue 8, article id. 084001 (2016)
  • ANTARES Coll., ANTARES: The first undersea neutrino telescope, Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research A, Volume 656, Issue 1, p. 11-38
  • ANTARES Coll., Search for a diffuse flux of high-energy neutrinos with the ANTARES neutrino telescope, Physics Letters B, Volume 696, Issue 1-2, p. 16-22.
  • HADES Coll., Inclusive di-electron production in proton-proton collisions at 2.2. GeV beam energy, Physical Review C, vol. 85, Issue 5, id. 054005, 2012
  • HADES Coll., The high-acceptance dielectron spectrometer HADES, The European Physical Journal A, Volume 41, Issue 2, pp. 243-277
  • HADES Coll., Di-electron production in C12+C12 collisions at 2AGeV with the HADES spectrometer, Physical Review Letters, vol. 98, Issue 5, id. 052302
  • H.-Th. Janka, T.E., M. Ruffert, C.L. Fryer, Black hole – neutron star mergers as central engines of gamma-ray bursts, The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 527, Issue 1, pp. L39-L42

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Dr. Alison Mitchell

 

I’m a researcher working in gamma-ray astronomy, a branch of the wider field of high energy astrophysics. The theme underlying my research interests is the quest to understand the nature and origin of the energetic cosmic rays permeating our universe and continuously bombarding Earth.

I am leading a DFG-funded Emmy Noether group at ECAP focussed on: Unveiling the Origin of Galactic Cosmic Rays: Exploring Pulsar Environments at the Highest Energies.

CV

since October 2021 – Junior research group leader at ECAP, FAU
2021 – Postdoctoral researcher at ETH Zurich
2018 – 2020 – Postdoctoral researcher at University of Zurich
2016 – 2018 Assistant Project Scientist for CTAO, gGmbH (67%)
2016 – 2018 Postdoctoral researcher at MPI Nuclear Physics, Heidelberg (33%)

2013 – 2016 PhD from the University of Heidelberg, IMPRS-HD, Max-Planck-Institute for Nuclear Physics: Dissertation

2008 – 2013 Undergraduate studies at the University of Warwick, UK

Research Interests

  • Gamma-ray Astronomy : with Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes & Particle Detectors
  • Extensive Air Showers : properties of muons
  • Pulsar Wind Nebulae & Pulsar Halos
  • Galactic Novae
  • Gamma-ray data analysis and calibration techniques

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