Christoph Helmut Keitel

Christoph Helmut Keitel ( born July 30, 1965 in Lübeck ) is a German physicist and director at the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics.

Christoph Helmut Keitel studied physics and mathematics at the University of Hannover and physics at the University of Munich, where he received his doctorate after graduating in 1990 with Georg Süßmann 1992. After several research sojourns in New Mexico and at Imperial College in London, he worked as a Marie Curie Fellow at the University of Innsbruck. In 1998 he was SFB junior research group leader at the University of Freiburg, where he habilitated in 2000 on Atomic Systems in Intense Laser Fields and the venia legendi received.

In his teaching at the universities of Freiburg and Dusseldorf followed in 2004 by the recording as a scientific member of the Max Planck Society and the vocation director of the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics in Heidelberg. Since 2005 he is also an honorary professor at the Ruprecht -Karls- University.

Keitel works primarily in the field of theoretical laser-induced quantum dynamics, quantum electrodynamics and nuclear and high energy physics with extremely strong laser fields.

He was awarded the 2003 Gustav Hertz Prize of the German Physical Society.

Publications (selection)

• Henrich, B., KZ Hatsagortsyan, CH Keitel: Positronium in Intense Laser Fields. Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 013601 (2004)
• Kiffner, M., J. Evers, CH Keitel: Quantum Interference Enforced by Time -Energy Complementarity. Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 100403 (2006)
• Bürvenich, TJ, J. Evers, CH Keitel: Nuclear Quantum Optics with X -ray laser pulse. Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 142501 (2006)
• Salamin YI, SH Hu, KZ Hatsagortsyan, CH Keitel: Relativistic high-power laser -matter interactions. Phys. Rep. 427, 41 (2006)