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Harald Reichert
Project leader PETRA IV
In 2022, Harald Reichert was appointed Lead Scientist in the Accelerator Division at DESY and took over leadership of the PETRA IV project, which aims to upgrade the PETRA III light source into the world’s most brilliant high-energy fourth-generation synchrotron radiation source.
Harald Reichert brings extensive experience to this position: After 17 years as an active researcher in condensed-matter physics using synchrotron radiation, he moved to facility management at the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF) in Grenoble, France, taking over as Director of Research in Physical Sciences when the facility embarked on an ambitious upgrade programme in 2009. In the following 13 years, he assumed scientific leadership for the successful transformation of the ESRF into the world’s first high-energy fourth-generation light source (ESRF-EBS) with its Phase I & II upgrade programme.
Harald Reichert is a member of numerous advisory bodies for X-ray science around the world.
Academic career
| since 2022 | Lead Scientist and Project Leader of the PETRA IV project at DESY |
| 2022 | International Research and Innovation Programmes Manager, European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF), France |
| 2009-2021 | Director of Research (Physical Sciences), ESRF, France |
| 2002-2008 | Research Professor, Max Planck Institute for Metals Research in Stuttgart |
| 2000-2002 | Senior Scientist, Max Planck Institute for Metals Research in Stuttgart |
| 1997-2000 | Group Leader, Max Planck Institute for Metals Research in Stuttgart |
| 1996-1997 | Staff Scientist, Institute for Materials Research, University of Wuppertal |
| 1995-1996 | Postdoctoral Associate (Feodor Lynen Fellowship), University of Houston, Texas |
Awards
| 1995 | Feodor Lynen Fellowship, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation |
| 2002 | Walter Schottky Award for Solid State Physics, German Physical Society (DPG) |
