Science star Prof. Mannel shines with a guest professorship in Vienna!

Science star Prof. Mannel shines with a guest professorship in Vienna!

Prof. Dr. Thomas Mannel from the University of Siegen will receive the Erwin Schrödinger Visiting Professorship in Vienna in 2025, an award given for outstanding contributions to theoretical elementary particle physics. How uni-siegen.de reports, Mannel will be a guest in the particle physics working group at the University of Vienna for four weeks. As part of his visiting professorship, he will give four lectures, including a public colloquium to take place in June.

The lecture series is organized by the “Association for the Promotion of Theoretical Physics in Austria” and supported by the City of Vienna Culture (MA7). Mannel plans to discuss the latest developments in particle physics and also present an inventory of current research. A central concern of the scientist is the initiation of closer cooperation between the universities of Siegen and Vienna.

Background of the visiting professor

Thomas Mannel studied physics at the Technical University of Darmstadt, where he also received his doctorate and habilitation. Since 2003 he has been a professor of theoretical particle physics at the University of Siegen. His previous research projects include the co-speaker role in the Transregio Collaborative Research Center “Phenomenological Elementary Particle Physics after the Higgs Discovery”. Mannel's research focus is on the study of heavy quarks, particularly bottom and charm quarks, where he has developed methods to describe these elementary particles based on relativistic quantum theory.

In addition, Mannel is involved in a cluster of excellence application that brings together the universities of Bonn, Dortmund and Siegen as well as the Research Center Jülich. As part of the 100th anniversary of quantum mechanics, the University of Siegen is planning a series of lectures and an event on the topic of quantum computing.

Another outstanding visiting professor: Matthias Neubert

Matthias Neubert from Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz was also selected as an Erwin Schrödinger guest scientist for 2024. Loud pro-physik.de Neubert will also spend four weeks in Vienna and give a series of lectures there with three specialist lectures in the particle physics seminar and a public lecture. He also receives support from the Cultural Office of the City of Vienna.

Neubert, who studied physics in Siegen and Heidelberg and received his doctorate in 1990, has an impressive career. He worked, among other things, at CERN and was a professor at Cornell University before being appointed to the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz in 2006. There he is also spokesman for the PRISMA Cluster of Excellence and director of the Mainz Institute for Theoretical Physics (MITP).

Thanks to his over 250 publications, Neubert is one of the most cited theoretical physicists in Germany. He is also a member of the Mainz Academy of Sciences and Literature and the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences. His “Physics in Theater” initiative has helped to bring basic physics research closer to a broad audience.