Klaus Blaum

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

Life and work

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

Klaus Blaum taught from 2004 to 2008 at the University of Mainz. For his teaching him the Teaching Award of Rhineland -Palatinate was awarded in 2006. In October 2007 he received the appointment as Director and Scientific Member of the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics in Heidelberg. In April 2008, his appeal was followed by an Honorary Professor (W3 ) of the Ruprecht -Karls- University of Heidelberg. Since November 2008 he is a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS ). From 2012 to 2014 he has been Deputy Chairman of the BMBF - Project Committee " Hadron and Nuclear Physics ". For the period from 2012 to 2015 Klaus Blaum member of the DFG review board is 308 "Optics, quantum optics and physics of atoms, molecules and plasmas ".

Research priorities

The focus of his scientific work are precision experiments on stored and cooled ions and the investigation of fundamental processes of molecular ions. Also the development of new storage, cooling and detection techniques for future experiments is an important area of his research.

Honors and Awards

Klaus Blaum has received numerous awards, including the Gustav -Hertz- Award 2004 of the German Physical Society (DPG) and the mat -Herzog Award 2005 of the German Society for Mass Spectrometry ( DGMS ) during his academic career. He was awarded by the GSI Exotic Nuclei Community of GENCO Membership Award 2010 On March 4, 2010. When bidding round 2011 of the European Research Council (ERC ) for the prestigious " Advanced Grants " Klaus Blaum prevailed to precision measurements of fundamental constants with his project MEFUCO. He is one of three winners of the Helmholtz Prize 2012 for precision measurement. The award ceremony took place as part of the celebrations for the 125th anniversary of the Physikalisch- Technische Bundesanstalt in Braunschweig on 27 March 2012. In March 2013, Klaus Blaum from the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research ( JINR ) in Dubna, Russia, GN Flerov Prize 2013 awarded for outstanding contributions to the development of high-precision Penning trap mass spectrometry with applications in nuclear physics.

Writings (selection )

• Resonant laser ionization mass spectrometry of gadolinium to Isotopenhäufigkeitsanalye with the smallest quantities, Thesis Mainz 2000.
• (together with Frank Herfurth ): Trapped charged particles and fundamental interactions. Springer, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-540-77816-5.