13. October 2008 15:12
ESF names Professor Guenther Rosner as the Chair of the Nuclear Physics European Collaboration Committee
The European Science Foundation (ESF) has named Professor Guenther Rosner as the new chair of the Nuclear Physics European Collaboration Committee (NuPECC). The announcement came after the Governing Council of the ESF voiced its endorsement for Professor Rosner to replace Professor Brian Fulton for a 3-year period starting from 1 January 2009.
“I am delighted to have the opportunity to drive the nuclear physics agenda in Europe in the next couple of years” said Professor Rosner. “This research field has re-gained public attention not only because new large-scale facilities will provide a much better insight into the origin and structure of strongly interacting matter such as atomic nuclei and nucleons, but also because of its extensive applications in industry (energy generation in fission and fusion reactors), medicine (NMR, SPECT, PET imaging and tumor radio and hadron therapy) and other research fields (e.g. astrophysics). ”
Professor Rosner holds currently the Cargill Chair of Natural Philosophy at the Department of Physics & Astronomy of the University of Glasgow. His teaching and research work covers nuclear and hadron structure and spectroscopy, and their applications in related fields such as nuclear medicine or plasma physics. He has written more than 200 original research papers in leading journals.
“I look forward to dealing with a challenging task indeed. My first initiative will be to start the process of formulating a new Long Range Plan for Nuclear Physics in Europe and discuss this with my colleagues in ESF,” added Professor Rosner.
With the new position Professor Rosner said he will focus on exploring new opportunities for nuclear research in Europe. European countries that have an active research programmes in nuclear physics and are not yet members of NuPECC should be invited to join the expert board to establish a true European Research Area (ERA) in this scientific discipline.
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Career
Academic studies
Physics 1969-1977
1971 Vordiplom, Univ. of Munich
1974 Dipl.-Phys., Univ. of Heidelberg
1977 Dr. rer. nat., Univ. of Heidelberg
Medicine 1975-1982
1978 Ärztliche Vorprüfung, Univ. of Heidelberg
1980 1. Ärztliche Prüfung, Univ. of Heidelberg
1982 2. Ärztliche Prüfung, admittance, Univ. of Heidelberg
Venia legendi
1996 Dr. rer. nat. habil., Univ. of Mainz
Employment
Research Associate
1977 - 78 Max Planck-Institute for Nuclear Physics, Heidelberg, Germany
Research Group Leader, Heavy Ion Group
1978 - 82 Max Planck-Institute for Nuclear Physics, Heidelberg, Germany
Feodor Lynen Fellow, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
1982 - 83 Physics Department, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne,
USA
Senior Scientist
1984 - 87 Physics Department E12, Technical University Munich, Germany
1987 - 91 Institute for Nuclear Physics, University of Mainz, Germany
Chief Executive Officer
1991 - 99 Institute for Nuclear Physics, University of Mainz, Germany
Cargill Chair of Natural Philosophy, Head Nuclear Physics
1999 - Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Glasgow,
UK
Declined Calls
1995 Chair, Molecular Biophysics, Medical Faculty, Ruhr-University
Bochum, Germany
1995 Director, Institute of Molecular Biophysics, Radiopharmacy and
Nuclear Medicine, Heart Centre of Northrhine-Westphalia, Bad
Oeynhausen, Germany
Research
Experimental Nuclear Structure Physics with heavy ion, real & virtual photon
beams
Experimental Hadron & Particle Physics with photon, lepton, hyperon and
antiproton beams
Medical Physics, Nuclear Medicine, Medical Imaging, Cancer Radiotherapy
Publications
in refereed journals: more than 200 (most recent ones at
in conference proceedings: ca. 150
Current boards, committees, etc.
Senate, Glasgow Univ. (Scotland, UK)
Leader, Nuclear & Plasma Physics Theme, Scottish Universities Physics Alliance,
SUPA
Coordinator, Scottish Centre for the Application of Plasma-based Accelerators,
SCAPA
SUPA Research Strategy Group (Scotland, UK)
Sectional C’ttee, Physics, Astronomy & Electrical Engineering, Royal Society
of Edinburgh (Scotland, UK)
Nuclear Physics Heads of Groups C’ttee (UK)
Nuclear Physics Consultation Panel, Science and Technology Facilities
Council, STFC (UK)
College, Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, EPSRC (UK)
Physics Panel Specialist Advisor, Research Assessment Exercise 2008,
(UK)
Collaborations:
A2 Collaboration Board, Crystal Ball Steering C’ttee (MAMI, Univ. of
Mainz; Germany)
CLAS Speakers C’ttee, CLAS12 Steering C’ttee (Jefferson Lab, Newport
News; USA)
HERMES Council (DESY, Hamburg; Germany)
Chair, PANDA Collaboration Board; Technical Board; Leader, Magnetic
Spectrometers Group (FAIR, GSI Darmstadt; Germany)
Programme Advisory C’ttee ELSA & MAMI (Universities of Bonn & Mainz;
Germany)
UK Representative, Scientific and Technical Issues C’ttee, STI, FAIR
(Darmstadt; Germany)
UK Representative, In-Kind Advisory Board, IKAB, FAIR (Darmstadt; Germany)
Deputy Spokesman, PANDA; Governing Board; FP6 DIRACsecondary-Beams
Design Study for FAIR (EU)
Chair, Governing Board; Management Board; Council; FP6 “HadronPhysics”
Integrated Infrastructure Initiative (EU)
Steering C’ttee, FP7 "HadronPhysics2" Integrating Activity (EU)
FP6 & FP7 Evaluation Panels; European Research Council (EU)
Nuclear Physics Board, European Physical Society
UK Representative, Chair Elect, Nuclear Physics European Collaboration
Committee, NuPECC, European Science Foundation
Media contact:
- Mr. Thomas LauE-Mail
