Thomas Müller (physicist)
Thomas Müller (born January 16, 1953 in Wuppertal ) is a German physicist . His research area is experimental particle physics .
Career
After studying at the University of Bonn (Diploma 1979), Müller received his doctorate in 1983 with data from the CERN experiment UA5 on the subject of "Particle generation in proton-antiproton reactions at 540 GeV focus energy". In 1988 the habilitation followed in the same place. After research stays at CERN and a professorship at the University of California in Los Angeles, Thomas Müller was appointed full professor at the University of Karlsruhe in 1995 and has since been head of the Institute for Experimental Nuclear Physics (EKP).
From 2000 to 2002 he was Vice Dean of the Faculty of Physics at the University of Karlsruhe, and from 2004 to 2006 he was Dean . In 2008 he was briefly a member of the KIT Senate. In the context of international academic self-administration, Prof. Müller u. a. German representative in the European Committee for Future Accelerators and member of the Executive Board of the European Physical Society.
Müller works on hadron colliders in the field of experimental particle physics . In the context of the Standard Model, he is primarily interested in the properties of the top quark and in the search for the Higgs boson . But physics beyond the standard model is also part of his research area. In addition, he was and is involved in the development of detector components. As part of his research activities, he has so far participated in experiments at CERN , Tevatron and, since 2008, in Belle 2 . In March 2009, Thomas Müller ran for election as spokesman for the CMS collaboration , but was narrowly defeated by Guido Tonelli.
Müller is married and has four children.
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| SURNAME | Müller, Thomas |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 16, 1953 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wuppertal |