Stefan Schael

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Stefan Schael (* 1961 in Leverkusen ) is a German physicist .

Career

After graduating from high school , Schael studied physics at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn and the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg . He completed his doctorate at the University of Karlsruhe and his habilitation at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . After research stays at CERN and the Max Planck Institute for Physics , Schael has been working at RWTH Aachen University since 2000 , where he heads the I. Physics Institute B.

Research and Teaching

Schematic representation of the AMS-02 experiment

Stefan Schael specializes in the research topics of elementary particle physics and astroparticle physics . Schael was part of the research group responsible for building the CMS detector at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, which was used to prove the existence of the Higgs boson . Schael is also involved in the development of detectors for the LHCb experiment at CERN.

Schael was involved in the development of the AMS-02 experiment and developed the support structure for this particle detector , which was brought to the International Space Station by the Space Shuttle Endeavor in 2011 as part of the STS-134 mission and is used to search for antimatter . He also researches the development of silicon photomultipliers and gives lectures in the field of physics.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Finally in the right place at the right time. Website of the German Aerospace Center , accessed on March 23, 2015.
  2. ↑ a b Thorsten Karbach: Aachen physicist involved in the largest ISS project. Website of the Aachener Zeitung , October 10, 2014, accessed on March 23, 2015.
  3. ↑ Axel Borrenkott: Aachen physicists reach for the anti-stars. Aachener Nachrichten Nr. 133, June 8, 2011, available on the Isatec Aachen website , accessed on March 23, 2015.
  4. ^ CMS Experiment at the LHC. Website of the I. Physikalisches Institut, accessed on March 23, 2015.
  5. ^ LHCb Experiment at the LHC. Website of the I. Physikalisches Institut, accessed on March 23, 2015.
  6. ↑ a b I. Physikalisches Institut B - RWTH Aachen. Institute website, accessed March 23, 2015.
  7. ↑ RWTH: First success in the search for antimatter. Website of the Aachener Zeitung , April 4, 2013, accessed on March 23, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Schael, Stefan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physicist
DATE OF BIRTH 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Leverkusen