Personal Data
Dr. Hardy Simgen
| address | Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik (MPIK) Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics Saupfercheckweg 1 69117 Heidelberg Germany |
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| hardy.simgen@mpi-hd.mpg.de | |
| phone | + 49 (0)6221 516-530 Executive Assistant: Anja Berneiser, -801 |
| research | dark matter, neutrino physics, low-background studies, radon counting |
Main Responsibilities
XENONnT Experiment |
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XLZD Experiment |
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LEGEND-1000 Experiment |
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Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics
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Academic History
| From 2009 | Permanent scientific staff at the “Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik”, Heidelberg | ||
| 2007-2009 | Postdoctoral researcher at Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik in the division of Particle and Astroparticle Physics of Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Manfred Lindner | ||
| 2004 | Research fellowship of the Japanese Scociety for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) at the Kamioka observatory of ICRR (3 months) -University of Tokyo, Japan Contributions to background control in the XMASS dark matter experiment | ||
| 2003-2007 | Postdoctoral researcher at Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik in the independent junior research group of Dr. Stefan Schönert | ||
| 2003 | PhD thesis at Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik (Heidelberg University): Title: "‘Highly sensitive detection of radioactive noble gas nuclides and of natural radionuclides from the uranium decay chain"’ | ||
| 2000-2003 | PhD student in physics at Heidelberg University | ||
| 2000 | Diploma thesis at Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik (Heidelberg University): "‘Measurement of 222Rn and 226Ra in water in the scope of the solar neutrino experiment BOREXINO"’ | ||
| 1995-2000 | Study of physics at Heidelberg University | ||
| 1993-1995 | Study of physics at Kaiserslautern University |
Former work at completed experiments
| XENON1T | Leader of the task group ’Gas Purity and Analytics’ | ||
| XENON100 | Member of the XENON100 experiment for the direct search of dark matter | ||
| GERDA | Leader of the task group ’Material screening’ | ||
| BOREXINO | Contributions to radioactive background control with particular focus on 222Rn, 226Ra and 85Kr | ||