Felicitas Pauss

Felicitas Pauss (born March 26, 1951 in Vorau , Styria) is an Austrian physicist . She is a full professor for experimental particle physics at the Institute for Particle Physics (IPP) at ETH Zurich . Astroparticle physics is one of her main areas of research .

Felicitas Pauss studied theoretical physics and mathematics at the Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz . From 1978 to 1983 she was employed at the Max Planck Institute for Physics in Munich and then until 1991 at CERN . There she continues to do research and is jointly responsible for the planning and construction of the CMS detector. She also works on the MAGIC telescope on La Palma.

Awards and memberships

• 2003: Great Decoration of Honor of the State of Styria
• 2008: Member of the Leopoldina
• 2009: Cross of Honor for Art and Science, 1st class .
• 2014: Honorary doctorate from the Vienna University of Technology

Web links

• Felicitas Pauss's website
• Felicitas Pauss in the database of renowned scientists AcademiaNet

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Christine Loriol: Felicitas Pauss. Archaeologist of the Universe . wiwo.de from September 10, 2008, accessed on October 2, 2008.
2. ↑ Felicitas Pauss - What holds the world together. In: srf.ch. March 1, 2014, accessed February 9, 2018 . 
3. ↑ Info 10/1 - The magazine of the Science Fund
4. ↑ TU Wien: Honorary doctorates ( memento of the original from February 21, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Retrieved March 26, 2015.