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Martin Pohl
Astroparticle Physics
Martin Pohl is Leading Scientist at DESY and works in the field of astroparticle physics and Professor for theoretical physics at Potsdam University. He and his team study energetic particles in the universe, their sources, their interactions with their environment, and their decay products. The universe harbors systems that are capable of accelerating individual particles to energies many orders of magnitude higher than is possible with accelerators built by humans. What drives these systems is a major question in physics and understanding them has broad implications. Scientific questions include: How do cosmic sources accelerate particles to very high energies? How do supermassive black holes for form jets and energetic particles therein? What is the nature of dark matter in the universe?
Academic career
| Since 2009 | Leading Scientist at DESY |
| Since 2009 | Full Professor at the University of Potsdam |
| 2007-2009 | Associate Professor, Iowa State University, USA |
| 2003-2007 | Assistant Professor, Iowa State University, USA |
| 2002-2003 | Lecturer, Ruhr University of Bochum |
| 1999-2002 | Research and Teaching Associate, Ruhr University of Bochum |
| 2002 | Habilitation in Theoretical Physics, Ruhr University of Bochum |
| 1997-1998 | Research Associate, Danish Space Research Institute, Copenhagen |
| 1994-1997 | Research Associate, Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, Garching |
| 1990-1993 | Research Associate, Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy, Bonn |
| 1991 | PhD, University of Bonn |
