Beate Heinemann

Director in charge of Particle Physics

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 a leading scientist at DESY and a professor of experimental particle physics at the Albert Ludwigs University of Freiburg. Beate Heinemann has been Director of Particle Physics since February 2022.