Karl-Heinz Kampert#
| Membership Number: | 3276 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | PHYSICS & ENGINEERING SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2012 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
| Homepage(s): | http://astro.uni-wuppertal.de/~kampert |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2003 - present Professor, Chair of Astroparticle Physics at University Wuppertal, Germany
- 1995 - 2003 Professor of Physics at University Karlsruhe (TH) and at Helmholtz-Research Centre, Karlsruhe (now KIT), Germany
- 1989 - 1995 Assistant Professor of Physics at University Münster, Germany
- 1986 - 1989 Postdoctoral Research Fellow at CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
- 1983 - 1986 Research Assistant at University Münster, Germany
Fields of Scholarship
- Novel detection methods (particle detectors, radio detection, microwave detection)
- Neutrino physics and neutrino astrophysics
- Cosmic Rays up to the highest energies
- Detector development (Calorimetry, Cherenkov detectors, RICH, photon sensors)
- Physics of extensive air-showers
- High-energy heavy-ion physics
Honours and Awards
- 1990 Prize for the promotion of young scientists, awarded and funded by the "Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Westfälischen Wilhelms Universität zu Münster" in distinction-for the outstanding contributions in investigating the properties of hot nuclear matter
- 2001 Appointment to “Permanent Scientific Member” of Helmholtz Centre Karlsruhe (KIT) for outstanding scientific contributions to the research centre.
