07.07.2025
We are excited to announce that Dr. Christian Glaser has been appointed as a new PI at our CRC.
Christian Glaser is an astroparticle physicist at TUDO with a particular interest in artificial intelligence, high-energy cosmic neutrinos and cosmic rays. His research focuses on developing radio detectors to measure these particles. He is playing key roles in two major international projects at some of the most extreme locations on Earth: the construction of the RNO-G detector in Greenland and the development of IceCube-Gen2 at the South Pole.
He is also involved in the Pierre Auger Observatory in Argentina - the world's largest cosmic ray detector, where he is working on an improved measurement of the muon content in air showers to better understand hadronic interactions at extreme energies, a key objective in the CRC.
In addition to the theoretical modeling of radio emission and the analysis of experimental data, he is also developing new types of detection hardware.
One focus in the coming years will be the ERC NuRadioOpt project, which aims to significantly improve the performance of future neutrino detectors through the use of artificial intelligence.
02.07.2025
We congratulate our CRC Spokesperson Julia Tjus on her election into the Senate of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - German Research Foundation!
The Senate is the central scientific body that advises on all matters of fundamental importance to the DFG and, in many cases, also makes decisions.
18.06.2025
We are pleased to invite you to the public lecture “Die Geburt stellarer Monster - Über die Entstehung der massereichsten Sterne im Universum " (in German).
In his talk, Rolf Kuiper will explore how the most massive stars in the cosmos are formed, which are rare in number, but extremely bright. He will connect the latest insights from astrophysical simulations with brand-new observations of young, massive star-forming regions that have only recently become accessible.
When 25.6.25 at 20:00
Where Planetarium Bochum
For registration and further information, please have a look at the Planetarium’s homepage.
Picture:
In the S 106 region, about 2,000 light-years from Earth, a particularly massive star is being born.
02.06.2025
We are happy to announce that our spokesperson Julia Tjus has been officially named an Honorary Doctor of the Chalmers University of Technology as of May 24, 2025.
This prestigious recognition was awarded during the university’s annual academic celebration in the Gothenburg Concert Hall.
Julia has been honored for her groundbreaking contributions to astroparticle physics. Her pioneering work in neutrino astronomy and cosmic ray research, especially her collaboration with the IceCube Neutrino Observatory, has significantly advanced our understanding of the high-energy universe.
Since her postdoctoral stay in Gothenburg, she has maintained a close connection with Chalmers University. As a Jubilee Professor in 2023 and now as an Associate Professor, she continues to strengthen the strong partnership with Nordic radio and neutrino astronomy.
We also extend our congratulations to the new doctors of Chalmers University, the honorary doctors Babak Hassibi (CalTech), Herre van der Zant (TU Delft), and Marcus Wandt (Saab/Esa), and Chalmers Supervisor of the Year Yinan Yu.
Please also have look at the news articles of Chalmers
and RUB News
Picture:
All honorary doctorates: front: Herre van der Zant, Martin Nilsson Jacobi (President of Chalmers University), back: Marcus Wandt, Julia Tjus, Babak Hassibi, Eva Olsson (Chair of the Faculty Council)
22.05.2025
Congratulations to our SFB1491 members Giacomo Sommani and Niclas Krieger for receiving the IceCube Impact Award 2025!
The IceCube Impact Awards recognize significant contributions to IceCube - the neutrino observatory at the South Pole.
Giacomo received the Individual Impact Award for his outstanding work on the performance and robustness of the reconstruction of IceCube real-time alerts.
Niclas is part of the team that was honoured with the Group Impact Award for the development of the next-generation online and offline filtering and event selection for all IceCube data.
More information on the awards can be found
here
Picture: Niclas (left) and Giacomo (right) with collaborators.
