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Marek Kowalski
Astroparticle physics and IceCube experiment
Marek Kowalski is Lead Scientist in the Neutrino Astronomy Group at DESY in Zeuthen and Professor of Physics at Humboldt University (HU) in Berlin. His research focuses in particular on the IceCube neutrino telescope at the South Pole, where he completed his doctorate in 2004 as part of AMANDA, the predecessor to IceCube. After working at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in the USA, at HU Berlin and as a professor at the University of Bonn, he accepted a joint professorship at HU Berlin and DESY in 2014. Here, he is particularly involved in driving forward the future expansion of IceCube.
Moreover, Marek Kowalski, who conducts research in observational cosmology in addition to neutrino astronomy, brought an ambitious project to DESY: as part of the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) – an all-sky survey using a novel 0.6-gigapixel camera – he is taking data that enable pioneering observations in supernova cosmology and are also important for neutrino astronomy.
Academic career
| Since 2014 | Lead Scientist at DESY in Zeuthen and Professor of Physics at Humboldt University of Berlin |
| 2009 | Physics Prize of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities |
| 2009-2014 | Professor of Physics, University of Bonn |
| 2006-2009 | Emmy Noether Group Leader, Humboldt University of Berlin |
| 2004-2006 | Postdoctoral Reseacher and Research Scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA |
| 2000-2003 | PhD and PhD Fellowship at DESY in Zeuthen and Humboldt University of Berlin (2004) |
| 1999 | Diploma, Humboldt University of 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 University 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 and member of the Executive Board of the Helmholtz Alliance for Astroparticle Physics |
| since 2010 | Chair of the Supernova Factory Collaboration Board |
