Johannes Wessels (physicist)

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Johannes Wessels (2016)
Johannes Wessels on October 6, 2016 during his speech as the new rector of the Westphalian Wilhelms University (WWU) .

Johannes Peter Wessels (born April 1, 1962 in Bremen ) is a German physicist . He is the rector of the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster . His scientific work focuses on heavy ion physics , detector development and medical imaging .

Life

Johannes Wessels studied physics at the University of Heidelberg from 1981 to 1986 . In 1990 the doctorate to Dr. rer. nat. at the University of Heidelberg and the Society for Heavy Ion Research , Darmstadt, where he was a postdoctoral researcher from 1991 to 1993.

From 1993 to 1996 Johannes Wessels was an Assistant Professor at the State University of New York at Stony Brook . He then worked again as a university assistant ( C1 ) at Heidelberg University until 2001 . During this time he worked on the CERES / NA45 experiment at CERN .

In 2003 he was appointed full professor at the physics department of the Westphalian Wilhelms-Universität Münster, from 2006 to 2010 he was dean of the department.

From 2010 to 2016 he was spokesman for the Hadrons and Cores Association of the German Physical Society . From 2011 to 2016 he was deputy spokesman for the ALICE experiment at CERN.

Johannes Wessels has been Rector of the Westphalian Wilhelms University since October 1, 2016. He succeeded Ursula Nelles in this office . In 2018, Wessels was elected Rector of the Year by the German University Association. He has been a member of the Scientific Policy Committee at CERN since 2019.

Act

Johannes P. Wessels is involved in various leading experiments in heavy ion physics such as ALICE at CERN in Geneva and PHENIX at Brookhaven National Laboratory on Long Island . Further research activities concern the development of new detectors, for example for the future CBM experiment at the International Accelerator Center FAIR at the GSI Helmholtz Center for Heavy Ion Research or for medical applications ( positron emission tomography ).

Web links

Commons : Johannes Wessels  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Johannes P. Wessels. Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Institute for Nuclear Physics, accessed on November 13, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Johannes Wessels elected as the new rector. In: Westfälische Nachrichten . April 7, 2016, accessed April 7, 2016 .
  3. ^ German University Association (DHV) Research & Teaching. 3/18 p. 214 ( hochschulverband.de PDF), accessed on April 10, 2018.
  4. ↑ Johannes Wessels excellent . In: Research & Teaching . February 26, 2018 ( forschung-und-lehre.de ).
  5. ↑ SPC - Composition as from January 2019. Retrieved October 2, 2019 .
predecessor Office successor
Ursula Nelles Rector of the University of Münster
since 2016
personal data
SURNAME Wessels, Johannes
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wessels, Johannes P .; Wessels, Johannes Peter (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physicist
DATE OF BIRTH April 1, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Bremen