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Prof. Dr. Klaus Blaum

Prof. Dr. Klaus Blaum
Name Prof. Dr. Klaus Blaum
Phone +49 6221 516-851
Fax +49 6221 516-852
Address Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik
Saupfercheckweg 1
Gentner lab, room 132
D 69117 Heidelberg
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Curriculum Vitae

Birthday 27.12.1971
Birthplace Sobernheim, now Bad Sobernheim
Abitur 27.05.1991 at the Göttenbach-Gymnasium Idar-Oberstein
Military service 01.07.1991 - 30.06.1992
Family married, two children
  University study and PhD
   
01.10.1992 - 09.10.1997 Physics study, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
23.08.1994 Physics PreDiploma - magna cum laude -
Oct. 1996 - Oct. 1997 Diploma thesis in experimental physics (Prof. Dr. E.W. Otten):
"Optimization of a quadrupole mass spectrometer for isotopic selective ultratrace determination"
09.10.1997 Physics Diploma - summa cum laude -
01.11.1997 - 30.11.2000 Research Assistant, Institute of Physics, Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz
Dec. 1997 - Nov. 2000 Dissertation in experimental physics (Prof. Dr. E.W. Otten):
"Resonance laser ionization mass spectrometry on gadolinium for ultra-trace isotope ratio determinations"
20.11.2000 Doctor rerum naturalium in Physics - summa cum laude -
  PostDoc and habilitation
   
01.12.2000 - 30.09.2004 Project Leader "Mass spectrometry of exotic nuclides with ISOLTRAP" at ISOLDE/CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
01.12.2000 - 30.09.2002 Postdoctoral Research Associate from GSI Darmstadt (Prof. H.-J. Kluge) at CERN (Geneva); ISOLTRAP/ISOLDE
01.10.2002 - 30.09.2004 Research Associate (Fellow) at the European Organization for Nuclear Research CERN (Division EP-IS) in Geneva, Switzerland
01.10.2004 - 31.07.2008 Project Leader of the "Helmholtz Research Group for Young Investigators" on "Experiments with Stored and Cooled Ions" at the Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz
22.02.2006 Habilitation in experimental physics at the Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz (Mentors Prof. Dr. I. Bloch and Prof. Dr. H. Backe)
  Appointment
   
01.10.2007 Appointment as director and scientific member at the Max-Planck-Institute for Nuclear Physics in Heidelberg, Germany
01.04.2008 Appointment as honorary professor (W3) at the Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg, Germany
  Miscellaneous
   
Aug. - Sep. 1999
Oct. - Nov. 2000
Visiting research scientist at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, USA
since 2001 >100 invited talks for seminars, colloquies, and int. conferences
since 2006 Speaker of the German representatives in the ISOLDE Collaboration (ISCC)
June 2007 - Sep. 2008 Member of the Gutenberg-Forschungskolleg (GFK), Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, Germany
since July 2007 Physics Advisory Committee Member of IGISOL, Jyväskylä, FIN
Referee of scientific journals (selection) Science; Phys. Rev. Lett.; European Physical Journal A & D; Journal of Physics B & G; Nuclear Physics A; Nuclear Instruments and Methods A
since Oct. 2008 Member of the Standing group for the upgrade of ISOLDE
2012 - 2014 Vice chairman of the advisory committee "Hadrons and Nuclei" of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)
2012 - 2015 Member of the DFG (German Research Foundation) Review Board 308 Optics, Quantum Optics and Physics of Atoms, Molecules and Plasmas