Bio as of April 2009
Professor Rolf-Dieter Heuer
was born in 1948 in Boll/Goeppingen. He studied physics at
the University of Stuttgart where he graduated in 1974, and obtained his
PhD at the
University
of Heidelberg
in 1977 under the supervision of Prof. Joachim Heintze.
Prof. Heuer is an experimental particle physicist. Most of
his scientific work has been related to the study of
electron-positron reactions, development of experimental
techniques, as well as construction and running of large
detector systems.
In 1977 he became research scientist at the
University
of Heidelberg
working for the JADE experiment at the electron-positron
storage ring PETRA
until 1983, situated at the Deutsche Elektronen- Synchrotron
DESY in Hamburg. From 1984 to
1998, Prof. Heuer was a staff member at CERN, working for
the OPAL experiment at the electron-positron storage ring
LEP. He was responsible for the coordination of design and
construction of the tracking jet chamber and coordinated the
whole tracking system during the experiment construction
phase. He then became the run coordinator during the
start-up phase of LEP1 in 1989-1992 and the OPAL
spokesperson in 1994-1998, responsible for all aspects of
the collaboration, comprising over 300 physicists, and for
its scientific output. His term of office covered LEP1 data
analysis and the LEP2 energy upgrade.
In 1998, Rolf-Dieter Heuer was appointed to a chair at the University of Hamburg
(C4 professor). He established a group working on the
preparations for experiments at an electron-positron Linear
Collider which quickly became one of the leading groups in
this area world wide. Since December 2004, Prof. Heuer is
research director for particle and astroparticle physics at
the DESY laboratory, a member of the Helmholtz association.
The main emphasis is to orient the particle physics groups
at DESY towards LHC, the LHC luminosity upgrade, ILC and
detector R&D, to maintain DESY as the central particle
physics laboratory in Germany, and to strengthen the links
to the Universities and the links to CERN. Recently he
initiated the restructuring and focusing of German particle
physics at the energy frontier with particular emphasis on
the LHC.
Prof. Heuer has been member in many scientific committees
and advisory bodies where he acquired much expertise in
reviewing projects as well as in judging and promoting
people.
During his 15 years at CERN he occupied the highest
managerial positions in the OPAL experiment. As a research
director at DESY he has gained additional managerial
experience and established many international contacts.
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