Rolf-Dieter Heuer

Rolf -Dieter Heuer ( born May 24, 1948 in Boll) is a German physicist and since 2009 Director General of the European Organization for Nuclear Research ( CERN).

Rolf -Dieter Heuer studied physics and obtained his degree at the University of Stuttgart. In 1977 he received his doctorate at the University of Heidelberg under Joachim Heintze with a thesis on the neutral decay modes of the ψ ( 3686 ) resonance. He then worked first in the JADE collaboration at the electron - positron storage ring PETRA of the German Electron Synchrotron (DESY), then from 1984 at the OPAL experiment at CERN. He was also from 1994, spokesman for the OPAL collaboration. In 1998 he returned to DESY and University of Hamburg, where he became a professor. From 2004 to 2008 he was research director for high -energy physics of DESY. There he was responsible for research at the HERA accelerator, DESY collaboration with the LHC particle accelerator at CERN and for research on future electron -positron colliders. In January 2009, Rolf -Dieter Heuer joined the succession of Robert Aymar as Director-General of CERN. Since 2011, Heuer is a member of the Leopoldina.

Documents

• " Professor Rolf -Dieter Heuer Appointed as New Director of Research ," Press Release DESY, Hamburg, October 4, 2004
• " Rolf -Dieter Heuer, CERN Director General to be New ", DESY Press Releases, Hamburg, December 14, 2007 ( version in the web archive WebCite )
• Particles, Strings and the Early Universe: Structure of Matter and Space - Time