Hartmut Grote

Hartmut Grote (born February 19, 1967 in Hemer ) is a German physicist who researches gravitational physics .

Grote studied at the University of Hanover , where he received his Dr. rer. nat. received his doctorate. Since 1999 he has been working at the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute) in Hanover, since 2009 as the scientific director of the GEO600 gravitational wave detector . Research stays led him to other gravitational wave detectors, such as the TAMA 300 in Mitaka ( Japan ) and the LIGO in Livingston ( Louisiana ).

He has been a professor at Cardiff University since 2018 .

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Making it work: Second Generation Interferometry in GEO 600! Diss., University of Hanover 2003 ( digitized version ).
Gravitational waves. Story of a discovery of the century. CHBeck, Munich 2018. ISBN 3-406-71941-4 ( preview in Google Book Search ).
Gravitational waves. A history of discovery. CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, Boca Raton / London / New York 2020. ISBN 978-0-367-13681-9 .
(Associate Editor): Advanced Interferometric Gravitational-Wave Detectors. 2 vols. Edited by David Reitze , Peter Saulson , Hartmut Grote. World Scientific, New Jersey 2019 ( 100 Years of General Relativity , 5). ISBN 978-981-314-608-2 ( preview in Google Book Search ).

personal data
SURNAME	Grote, Hartmut
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German physicist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH	19th February 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH	Hemer