Fermilab theorist Andreas Kronfeld appointed Hans Fischer Senior Fellow at TUM-IAS

Dr. Andreas Kronfeld (Fermilab, USA) has been honored with a TUM-IAS Hans Fischer Senior Fellowship for a joint research program with Prof. Nora Brambilla on “Interplay of Effective Quantum Field Theory and Numerical Lattice Gauge Theory”. Nora Brambilla is leader of the research group „Theoretical particle and nuclear physics“ at the Physics Department and a member of the Excellence Cluster Universe. As IAS Senior Fellow, Andreas Kronfeld will spend nine months of the next three years at Brambilla’s group at the TUM. A position for a Ph.D. student will be offered as well. The research targets innovative ideas in particle and nuclear physics – and envisages spin offs to condensed matter and computational physics.

Andreas Kronfeld is a senior scientist at Fermilab’s Theoretical Physics Department. He obtained a PhD from Cornell University in 1985. After a postdoc stay from 1985 to 1988 at DESY in Hamburg he returned to the US and has stayed at Fermilab since then – apart from visiting professorships in Denmark and Japan. He is a fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), on the basis of his work connecting lattice quantum chromodynamics calculations to experimental physics.

Hans Fischer Senior Fellows are outstanding international scientists, who intend to explore innovative, high-risk topics in their scientific research areas together with a TUM research group. The fellowship program is funded by the Excellence Initiative and sponsored by the German federal and state governments.

Contact:
Prof. Dr. Nora Brambilla
Physik-Department T30f 
Technische Universität München?
James-Franck-Str. 1
85747 Garching

E-Mail: nora.brambilla@ph.tum.de
Tel.: +49 89 289 12353