Manfred Lindner

Manfred Lindner ( born February 22, 1957 in Elle field at Baernau ) is a German physicist. He is a director at the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics in Heidelberg.

Life and work

Manfred Lindner studied from 1978 to 1984 physics at the Ludwig- Maximilians- University of Munich and received his doctorate in 1987 at the Ludwig- Maximilians- University with the theme of the non-linear renormalization flow of the standard model of electroweak interactions and some extensions. After postdoctoral years at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory ( Fermilab ) in Chicago from 1987 to 1989 and at CERN in Geneva from 1989 to 1991 he was from 1991 to 1993 Heisenberg Fellow at the University of Heidelberg.

Lindner habilitated in 1992 in Heidelberg. In 1993 he was appointed Professor of Theoretical Physics at the Technical University of Munich and taught there from 1993 to 2006. In 2006 he became a director at the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics in Heidelberg. Since 2007, Lindner is also known as personal Ordinary Professor at the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Heidelberg, where he continued engaged in teaching. From 2009 to 2011, he was the managing director of the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics. Lindner is a member of the Scientific Advisory Board (Scientific Committee) of the Gran Sasso underground laboratory of the INFN. He also participates in numerous other committees and participates as a reviewer for various national and international research funding organizations. He is a member of numerous advisory committees of international conferences and he has worked as a consultant and member of the editorial boards for scientific journals.

Manfred Lindner research in the field particle and astroparticle physics. Topics range from formal theoretical questions to experimental detection methods. The theoretical research dealt with fundamental properties of matter in the so-called standard model and possible extensions. On the experimental side Manfred Lindner is involved along with his division leader in international projects in the field of neutrino physics and the search for dark matter. The main experimental projects are currently GERDA for the detection of neutrino -less double beta decay, XENON searching for Dark Matter and Double Chooz for the detection of subdominant Antineutrinooszillationen. In addition to his research team, various detection methods or driven to new and leading Sensititvitätsniveaus ahead. Lindner is Chair of the Collaboration Board of the GERDA experiment and the XENON collaboration, which currently operates the XENON100 detector and builds the successor detector XENON1T.

Publications (selection)

• P. Huber et al.: "First hint for CP violation in neutrino oscillations from upcoming super beam and reactor experiments", in JHEP 0911 (2009) 044
• F. Bezrukov, H. Hettmansperger, M. Lindner: " keV sterile neutrino Dark Matter in gauge extensions of the Standard Model ", Physical Review D81, 085 032 (2010).
• E. Aprile et al.: "Dark Matter Results from 100 Live Days of XENON100 Data", in Physical Review Letters 107, 131302 ( 2011).
• Y. Abe et al.: " Indication for the disappearance of reactor electron anti- neutrinos in the Double Chooz experiment", in Phys.Rev.Lett. 108, 131 801 (2012 ).