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Vita

PD Dr. Thierry Lasserre
  

Positions

 

From 2025

 Leader of the Independent Research Group OMNIA at the Max-Planck-Institu für Kernphysik, Heidelberg 

2001-2025

 Research Director - Senior expert physicist at the particle physics department of CEA/DRF/IRFU.
Head of the Low Energy Neutrino Group since 2004		 

2005-2023

 Associated researcher at the Astro Particle & Cosmology laboratory, Paris 
  

Education

 

2025

 Priv.-Doz. (Habilitation), Fakultät für Physik und Astronomie, Universität Heidelberg 

2015

 Promotionsrecht, as TUM Hans Fischer Senior Fellow 

2010

 Habilitation Thesis, in the field of Neutrinos and Dark Matter, at the Paris VII University 

2000

 PhD at the Paris VI University, ‘with honors’ 

1997

 Master 2 in “Fields, Particules, Matter” at the Paris VI University 

1996

 Master 1 in fundamental physics at the Paris VI University 
  

Awards & Distinctions

 

2024

 Research Director grade 7 (Classe Exceptionnelle) at CEA 

2022

 DFG Mercator Fellow SFB1258 at TUM (KATRIN & NUCLEUS experiments) 

2020

 Invited Lecturer on Neutrino Physics at TUM 

2015

 Hans Fischer Senior Fellowship - Institute for Advanced Study (Munich) - Promotionsrecht 

2012

 W3 ≪Experimentelle Physik≫ - Fakultät für Physik und Astronomie, University Heidelberg (declined) 

2012

 ERC Starting Grant 

2011-2025

 CEA Senior Expert in the field of particle physics 

2011

 Nominated Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Palmes Académiques (teaching award) 

2010

 Delegate in the IAEA as neutrino expert 

2010

 Médaille de Bronze du CNRS (young researcher prize) 
  

Selected Committees

 

2019-2022

 Member of the CEA/DRF/IRFU/DPHP staff recruitment committee 

2012-2015

 Member of the CERN SPS Committee (referee for Dune/Opera/Icarus/SHIP/NuStorm) 

2012-2013

 Member of the ANR Committee (French National Research Agency) 

 

 

Teaching

 

 

 OMNIA Group
CEA
Institut de recherche sur les lois fondamentales de l'Univers