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Joachim Mnich
Particle physics
Joachim Mnich is Lead Scientist at DESY and Professor of Physics at the University of Hamburg. He worked on experiments at DESY’s PETRA storage ring as a doctoral student before moving to CERN in Switzerland for several years. He joined DESY as Lead Scientist in 2005. Here, he headed the DESY CMS group and coordinated the European EUDET detector R&D programme before being appointed DESY Director in charge of Particle and Astroparticle Physics in 2009. Joachim Mnich held this post for 12 years. He has been Director for Research and Computing at CERN since January 2021.
Joachim Mnich’s scientific focus is on the study of elementary particles and their properties, the planning and development of new detectors, physics analysis at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and the preparation of a new electron–positron linear collider.
Academic career
| since 2021 | Director for Research and Computing at CERN |
| 2009-2020 | Director in charge of Particle and Astroparticle Physics at DESY |
| 2008-2009 | Deputy Director in charge of Particle and Astroparticle Physics at DESY |
| 2006-2007 | Head of the DESY CMS group |
| 2006-2009 | Coordinator of the EU project EUDET |
| since 2005 | Lead Scientist at DESY, Professor of Physics at the University of Hamburg |
| 2000-2004 | Professor at RWTH Aachen |
| 1995-1999 | Staff Scientist at CERN |
| 1995 | Habilitation at RWTH Aachen |
| 1988-1999 | Research stay at CERN, L3 experiment at the LEP collider |
| 1987 | PhD at RWTH Aachen on the MARK J experiment at DESY |
| 1979-1984 | Studies of Physics at RWTH Aachen |
| 1977-1983 | Stuies of Electrical Engineering at RWTH Aachen |
Memberships
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Joachim Mnich is a member of numerous national and international
expert and advisory bodies.
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