Klaus Blaum

Klaus Blaum (born December 27, 1971 in Sobernheim, now Bad Sobernheim , Bad Kreuznach district ) is a German physicist and university professor . He is director at the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics in Heidelberg .

Live and act

Klaus Blaum studied physics at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz , where, after graduating in 1997 and several research at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) in Richland , USA , in 2000 EW Otten doctorate was. Subsequently, he was a research associate at GSI Darmstadt (working group of H.-J. Kluge ) at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland until 2002 , and there as a research associate (CERN Fellow) until 2004, project manager for “Mass spectrometry of exotic nuclei with ISOLTRAP at ISOLDE ". In October 2004, Klaus Blaum took over the position of project manager of the Helmholtz University Young Investigators Group “Experiments with stored and cooled ions” at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz for four years. In 2006 he completed his habilitation there on high-precision mass spectrometry with Penning traps and storage rings .

Klaus Blaum taught at the University of Mainz from 2004 to 2008. In 2006 he was awarded the teaching prize of the State of Rhineland-Palatinate for his teaching activities . In October 2007 he was appointed director and scientific member of the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics in Heidelberg. In April 2008 he was appointed honorary professor (W3) at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg . Since November 2008 he has been a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS). After his first term of office (2012-2014) he was again deputy chairman of the BMBF expert committee “Hadron and Nuclear Physics” from 2018 to March 2020 . For the period from 2012 to 2019 Klaus Blaum was a member of the DFG Review Board 308 “Optics, Quantum Optics and the Physics of Atoms, Molecules and Plasmas”. From June 2016 to December 2019 he was Deputy Chairman of the FAIR / GSI Joint Scientific Council, Chairman of the Scientific Committee of GSI and member of the Supervisory Board of GSI. As Vice President of the Max Planck Society , Klaus Blaum has been responsible for the institutes of the Chemical-Physical-Technical Section since July 2020 .

Research priorities

His scientific work focuses on precision experiments on stored and cooled ions as well as research into elementary processes of molecular ions. The development of new storage, cooling and detection techniques for future experiments is also an important area of ​​his research.

honors and awards

Klaus Blaum has received numerous prizes during his scientific career to date, including the 2004 Gustav Hertz Prize from the German Physical Society (DPG) and the 2005 Mattauch Herzog Prize from the German Society for Mass Spectrometry (DGMS). On March 4, 2010, he received the GENCO Membership Award 2010 from the GSI Exotic Nuclei Community. In the 2011 call for tenders from the European Research Council (ERC) for the prestigious “Advanced Grants”, Klaus Blaum was able to prevail with his MEFUCO project for precision measurements of natural constants. He is one of the three winners of the Helmholtz Prize 2012 for precision measurement. The award ceremony took place on March 27, 2012 as part of the celebrations for the 125th anniversary of the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt in Braunschweig. In March 2013, Klaus Blaum from the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research ( JINR ) in Dubna, Russia, was awarded the GN Flerov Prize 2013 for outstanding contributions to the development of high-precision Penning trap mass spectrometry with applications in nuclear physics. In April 2016 the Gothenburg Physics Center awarded him the Gothenburg Lise Meitner Prize 2016 "for the development of novel techniques for high-precision measurements on stored radioactive ions". In 2019 Blaum was elected to the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences . In March 2019 he was awarded an "Advanced Grant" by the European Research Council (ERC) for the second time for a project to test fundamental interactions (FunI).

Fonts (selection)

• Resonant laser ionization mass spectrometry on gadolinium for isotope frequency analysis with the smallest amounts , dissertation Mainz 2000.
• High-accuracy mass spectrometry with stored ions. In: Physics Reports 425 (2006), pp. 1-78.
• (together with Frank Herfurth): Trapped charged particles and fundamental interactions . Springer, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-540-77816-5 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Personal website of H.-J. Smart
2. ↑ Laureate of the teaching award of the State of Rhineland-Palatinate 2006
3. ↑ Klaus Blaum's personal website
4. ^ Senate of the Max Planck Society elects new Vice Presidents
5. ↑ Helmholtz Prize for the most accurate test of quantum electrodynamics with hydrogen-like ions
6. ^ GN Flerov Prize Winners 2013
7. ^ Website of the Gothenburg Physics Center
8. ^ Gothenburg Lise Meitner Award 2016
9. ^ The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences elects Klaus Blaum as an external member. Retrieved January 24, 2019 . 
10. ↑ Klaus Blaum wins another Advanced Grant from the European Research Council. MPI for Nuclear Physics, April 1, 2019, accessed April 24, 2019 . 

Web links

• Literature by and about Klaus Blaum in the catalog of the German National Library
• Klaus Blaum on the website of the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics in Heidelberg (with list of publications )