My teaching experience results from giving evening classes on non-physics subjects and many years of university physics teaching, from tutoring in the basic and advanced physics teaching laboratories, pre-term introductory courses ("Basic mathematical methods for the sciences", with lectures and tutorial groups), to "Basic physics" classes (up to four hours per week, with tutorials, two terms each) for audiences of civil engineering (2 cycles), biochemistry, biology, chemistry, geology and mineralogy students (also two cycles), "Physics for medical students" (1 term, 1 cycle), several full term lecture series on "Modern experiments in atomic physics", "Spectroscopy of few-electron ions" and "Atomic Physics using Fast Ion Beams", "Spectroscopy of Atoms and Ions", "Production and investigation of highly charged ions" (for physics majors, two hours per week each), seminars, individual lectures and conference contributions, tutoring and training of diploma and doctoral students.
Thesis adviser / referee for PhD theses from USA, India and Germany.
Diploma and PhD examiner
Publications and presentations
More than 320 papers of mine have been published or
accepted by refereed journals.
I am a co-author of a text book on atomic spectroscopy
(Heckmann / Träbert: "Einführung in die
Spektroskopie der Atomhülle", Vieweg: Wiesbaden 1980),
which has been translated into
English ("Introduction to the Spectroscopy of Atoms",
North-Holland, Amsterdam 1989).
I have written two book chapters on invitation.
I have more than 320 contributions to national and international conferences to my credit,
21 of which I have been presented on invitation.
Publications directed at non-specialists include the journals RUBIN (Bochum university), Physicalia Magazine (Belgian Physical Society), forschung - Mitteilungen der DFG, Physikalische Blätter.
Acted repeatedly as a referee for various physics journals
(Z. Physik A/D, Physica Scripta, Physics Letters A, Physical Review A, Physical Review Letters,
Nucl. Instrum. Meth. B, J. Phys. B & E, J. Phys. Conf. Ser., New J. Phys., Journal de Physique
(Paris), Brazilian J. Physics, Eur. Phys. J. D, Acta Physica Polonica A, Indian Journal of Physics,
J. Quant. Spect. Rad. Transf.),
Management experience:
As a student, co-organizing and running a student group that developed learning techniques (speed reading, learning skills, strain relief, group dynamics) and materials, and giving classes (at the university and at extension evening schools) that used the products.
As a graduate student, for several years I was in charge of organizing the series of
internal physics seminars. After my return from the postdoc years in England, I gradually took
over the organization and management of the Heckmann fast-beam spectroscopy group at Bochum.
My part of the group later on amounted to up to three doctoral students and
two diploma students at a time. This management included defining the scientific agenda, applying for
outside funding from various sources, and organizing external research visits and experiments (Stockholm,
Argonne, Toledo, Darmstadt, Heidelberg, Gaithersburg, Livermore)
which involved people from up to five laboratories at a
time, as well as planning for the scientific activities of a number of visitors to Bochum
(including extended visits by two Senior Humboldt awardees).
One term responsibility for the scheduling of the advanced teaching lab (50 students)
Shared in the guidance of 11 diploma students in the group, had main responsibility for 7 (3 women), supervised 6 graduate students on my own projects (3 women).
Funding applications
Obtained external funding (equipment, student and travel grants) for about two dozen projects from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) and the German Minister for Research and Technology (BMFT/BMBF), research fellowship grants from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (Feodor Lynen program) and the Max Kade Foundation (New York), as well as travel funds for collaborative projects from NATO and Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD).
Many years of service on various Bochum faculty committees.
Service on several college committees when a Junior Research Fellow at Wolfson College, Oxford.
Acted repeatedly as a referee for funding agencies in Germany, the USA, Canada, Belgium, and the U.K.
Repeatedly editor of the Dynamitron Tandem Laboratory Annual Report (Jahresbericht DTL)
Correspondent of Comments in Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics (now a section of Physica Scripta)
Member of the editorial board of the Open Access journal "Atoms" (2014)
Member of the local committee of the ASOS10 conference (Berkeley 2010)
Member of the International committee of the ASOS11 conference (Mons 2013)
Languages: English (rather good after more than 9 years in England and the USA), some French, formerly Latin, rudiments of Russian
Computer languages and applications etc.: FORTRAN, Algol, Pascal, HTML; VMS, MS-DOS, Mac OS9, OSX, Windows; Word, TeX, Excel, ORIGIN, Kaleidagraph, Igor, etc.
Technical experience: Nuclear electronics, spectroscopy in various ranges (visible, UV, EUV, x-ray), photoelectric detectors, vacuum equipment, data acquisition.
Sports: (at times) cycling, tennis, downhill skiing, fencing, rowing, walking, sculpting in stone and wood
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