Research Interests:
⦁ Hadron physics with electromagnetic probes
⦁ Precision measurements of hadronic cross sections
⦁ Hadron spectroscopy (light quark and charm sector)
⦁ Flavour physics (kaon, B, charm)
⦁ Hardware: tracking detectors
| since 2022 | Spokesperson of Research Unit FOR5327 |
| 2016 – 2019 | Acting Director of the Institute of Nuclear Physics |
| 2013 – 2016 | Head of the Section “Hadron and Nuclear Physics” of the German Physical Society |
| 2012 – 2020 | Co-Spokesperson of SFB/CRC 1044, The Low-Energy Frontier of the Standard Model |
| since 2012 | Principal Investigator PRISMA(+) Cluster of Excellence Research at IHEP, Beijing (BES-III collaboration) |
| since 2009 | Section Leader SPECF, Helmholtz Institute Mainz |
| since 2008 | W3-Professor, Institute of Nuclear Physics, University of Mainz Research at Mainzer Mikrotron MAMI and GSI (PANDA experiment) |
| since 2004 | Research at Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, USA (BaBar collaboration) |
| 2002 – 2008 | Head of Emmy Noether Young Investigator Group (DFG), University of Karlsruhe |
| 2000 – 2002 | Marie-Curie-Fellow (EU), Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Italy |
| 1994 – 1999 | Doctoral thesis, University of Karlsruhe (summa cum laude) |
| Observation of a charged charmoniumlike structure in e+e- to pi+pi-J/psi at \sqrt{s}=4.26 GeV M. Ablikim et al. [BES III collaboration] Phys. Rev. Lett. 110 (2013) 252001 arXiv: 1303.5949 |
| Search for Light Gauge Bosons of the Dark Sector at the Mainz Microtron H. Merkel et al. [A1 collaboration] Phys.Rev.Lett. 106 (2011) 251802 |
| Measurement of the γγ*→π0 transition form factor B. Aubert et al. [BaBar collaboration] Phys. Rev. D 80 (2009) 052002 |
| Evidence for D0–anti-D0 mixing B. Aubert et al. [BaBar collaboration] Phys. Rev. Lett. 98 (2007) 211802 |
| Measurements of the absolute branching ratios for the dominant KL decays, the KL lifetime, and Vus with the KLOE detector F. Ambrosino et al. [KLOE collaboration] Phys. Lett. B 632 (2006) 43 83 |
| Measurement of σ(e+e-→π+π-γ) and extraction of σ(e+e-→π+π-) below 1 GeV with the KLOE detectorA. Aloisio et al. [KLOE collaboration] Phys. Lett. B 606 (2005) 12 |
| The tracking detector of the KLOE experiment M. Adinolfi et al. [KLOE collaboration] Nucl. Instrum. Meth. A 488 (2002) 51 |
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