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Prof. Dr. Hans Hofsäss
Curriculum Vitae Prof. Dr. rer. nat. habil. Hans Christian HofsässDate of birth: 23 August 1956
Place of birth: Biberach/Riss, Germany
Nationality: German
Civil status: Married, two children
Academic degrees
- 1983
Diploma in Physics, grade: very good
Title: Channeling of conversion electrons in molybdenum and gold emitted from radioactive 111-In atoms
Dr. rer. nat. in physics, grade summa cum laude
Title: Channeling of electrons and positrons for the localization of radioactive probe atoms in metals and semiconductors
Habilitation in Experimental Physics
Venia Legendi in Experimental physics
- 1963 - 1966 Elementary school Biberach/Riss
- 1966 - 1975 High school (Gymnasium) Biberach/Riss
- 1975 - 1976 Military service
- 1989 University Konstanz, Dornier-Forschungspreis 1988
- 1988-1989 DFG post doc fellowship
- 1976 - 1983 Study of Phsics, University Konstanz, Germany
- since 1985 Member and later head of experimental group at the on-line Isotope separator ISOLDE of CERN, Geneva
- 1983 - 1988 Research Assistant, University Konstanz
- 1986 - 1987 Radioactivity measurments after the reactor accident in Chernobyl
- 1988 - 1989 University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
Research Assistant Professor at the Department of Physics and Astronomy
Post doc fellowship awarded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft - 1989-1998 Research Assistant, University Konstanz
- 1994 Habilitation in Experimental physics.
- 1995 University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA,
July and August: Guest Scientist at the Department of Physics and Astronomy - 1998 Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
Professor (C3) for Experimental physics at the Second Institute of Physics
(Institute for Atomic and Nuclear Physics) - 2002-2007 Managing director of the Second Institute of Physics
- 2001-2005 Dean of Studies, Faculty of Physics, University of Göttingen
- 2009-2013 Dean of the Faculty of Physics
- 2017-2019 Substitute member of the Senate of the University of Göttingen
- 2019 -2021 Member of the Senate of the University of Göttingen
- Member of the German Physical Society
- Member of the advisory board of the German Physical Society
- Member of the executive board of the Universitätsbund Göttingen e.V.
- Chairman of KFSI, Komitee Forschung mit nuklearen Sonden und Ionenstrahlen (since 2002)
- Member of the KEKM, Komitee Erforschung kondensierter Materie (2002-2008)
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