Beate Heinemann

Chairwoman of the DESY Board of Directors

Beate Heinemann received her PhD at the H1 experiment at DESY's HERA accelerator and worked, among others, at the CDF experiment at Fermilab and ATLAS at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, employed initially at the University of Liverpool (UK) and later at the University of California, Berkeley (USA).

In 2017, she became Leading Scientist at DESY and Professor of Experimental Particle Physics at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg. She has been a professor at the University of Hamburg since August 2023 and received an honorary doctorate from the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences at the University of Zurich in 2024.

Beate Heinemann was Director of Particle Physics from February 2022 to April 2025. Since then, she has headed the DESY research centre as the first female Chair of the DESY Directorate.