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Klaus Mönig
ATLAS experiment at LHC
Klaus Mönig is leading scientist at DESY in Zeuthen and associate professor at the Humboldt University in Berlin. His main area of specialisation is the ATLAS experiment at LHC where he heads the DESY-group. The Standard Model of particle physics still leaves many questions unanswered, such as dark matter or the reason for matter/antimatter asymmetry. Despite the discovery of the Higgs boson the origin of matter is still not fully understood. A promising approach to find an answer to these questions by experiments is the analysis of particle collisions with highest possible energies. The LHC, the most powerful accelerator in the world, collides protons at a centre-of-mass energy of 14 TeV. In the first phase of energies between 7-8 TeV, the Higgs boson was found. Scientists hope that further operation brings further groundbreaking discoveries.
Academic career
| 2016-2030 | Research stay at CERN, Geneva |
| 2011-2012 | Research project at CERN, Geneva |
| Since 2010 | Associate Professor at Humboldt University Berlin |
| 2005 | Research project LAL, Orsay, France |
| 2000 | Habilitation at University of Hamburg |
| Since 1998 | Leading Scientist at DESY |
| 1991-1998 | Scientist at CERN, Geneva |
| 1986-1990 | PhD at Bergische University of Wuppertal |
| 1981-1986 | Study of physics at University of Wuppertal |
Memberships
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Member of various national and international committees, various functions within the ATLAS experiment, including publications coordinator, coordinator for the search for new particles, physics coordinator.
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