Siegfried Bethke

Siegfried Bethke (born April 15, 1954 in Ludwigshafen am Rhein ) is a German physicist and science manager.

Life

Siegfried Bethke studied at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität in Heidelberg , where he received his doctorate in 1983 and qualified as a professor in 1987. In 1987/88 he spent a research stay as a Feodor Lynen fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory . He then did research as a Heisenberg fellow of the German Research Foundation at CERN , the European Center for Nuclear and Particle Physics . In 1993 he was appointed professor for experimental physics at RWTH Aachen University , where he held a chair at the III. Physics institute was. In 1999 he became a "Scientific Member" and Director at the Max Planck Institute for Physics in Munich , which he headed from 2000 to 2005 as Managing Director.

Bethke's research focus is the investigation of high-energy particle collisions at particle accelerators and the development of particle detectors to detect these collisions. Bethke is a member of OPAL -Kollaboration at LEP - storage ring of CERN . He is the responsible director for the activities of the MPI for Physics within the ATLAS collaboration at the LHC of CERN. Bethke also makes contributions to the experimental verification of quantum chromodynamics and experimental astroparticle physics .

Bethke has been co-editor of the European Physical Journal C since 1994 . In 1995 he was awarded the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize of the German Research Foundation. From 1995 to 2002 he was a member of the “ High Energy Physics ” expert committee of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research . From 1997 to 2002 he was a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Physics G - Nuclear and Particle Physics . Since 2000 he has been a member of the scientific advisory board of the particle accelerator DESY in Hamburg, which he chaired in June 2003.

personal data
SURNAME	Bethke, Siegfried
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German experimental physicist and science manager
DATE OF BIRTH	April 15, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH	Ludwigshafen am Rhein