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Marek Kowalski
Astroparticle physics and IceCube experiment
In June 2014, Marek Kowalski officially took up office as a Leading Scientist in the IceCube group in Zeuthen. He graduated there in 2004 within IceCube’s predecessor project, AMANDA, and is thus an old hand at DESY. After his professorships at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory in the USA, Humboldt University (HU) of Berlin and his W3 professorship at the University of Bonn, he now assumes a joint professorship at HU Berlin and DESY. His focus is on the future expansion of IceCube at the geographic South Pole. Apart from his research in neutrino astronomy and observational cosmology, Kowalski will bring an ambitious new project to DESY: the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) – planned in cooperation with Caltech (USA), the Oscar Klein Centre (Sweden) and the Weizmann Institute (Israel) - is an instrument for an all-sky survey with a novel 1.6-gigapixel camera. Kowalski will take data allowing pioneering observations in supernova cosmology, that are also important for neutrino astronomy.
Academic career
| Since 2014 | Professor of Physics (W3) at Humboldt University Berlin and Leading Scientist at DESY |
| 2009 | Physics prize of the Göttingen Academy of Science and Humanities |
| 2009-2014 | Professor of Physics (W3) at the University of Bonn |
| 2006-2009 | Emmy Noether Group Leader at Humboldt University Berlin |
| 2004-2006 | Postdoctoral Reseacher and Research Scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in the supernova cosmology group of Saul Perlmutter |
| 2000-2003 | PhD and PhD Fellowship at DESY in Zeuthen and at Humboldt University Berlin (2004) |
| 1999 | Diploma at Humboldt University Berlin |
Memberships
| Member of the IceCube Collaboration and Executive Board | |
| Member of the Zwicky Transient Factory Board | |
| 2013-2014 | Director of the Physics Institute of the Universtiy of Bonn |
| 2012-2014 | Speaker of the Center for Detector Physics of the University of Bonn |
| 2010-2011 | Director of the Physics Institute of the Universtiy of Bonn |
| Since 2011 | Astronomy Coordinator within Helmholtz Alliance for Astropartice Physics and Member of the Executive Board of Helmholtz Alliance for Astroparticle Physics |
| 2010-today | Chair of the Supernova Factory Collaboration Board |
