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 2022Spokesperson of Research Unit FOR5327
2016 – 2019Acting Director of the Institute of Nuclear Physics
2013 – 2016Head of the Section “Hadron and Nuclear Physics” of the German Physical Society
2012 – 2020Co-Spokesperson of SFB/CRC 1044, The Low-Energy Frontier of the Standard Model
since 2012Principal Investigator PRISMA(+) Cluster of Excellence
Research at IHEP, Beijing (BES-III collaboration)
since 2009Section Leader SPECF, Helmholtz Institute Mainz
since 2008W3-Professor, Institute of Nuclear Physics, University of Mainz Research at Mainzer Mikrotron MAMI and GSI (PANDA experiment)
since 2004Research at Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, USA (BaBar collaboration)
2002 – 2008Head of Emmy Noether Young Investigator Group (DFG), University of Karlsruhe
2000 – 2002Marie-Curie-Fellow (EU), Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Italy
1994 – 1999Doctoral 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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