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Martin Pohl
Astroparticle physics
Martin Pohl is Lead Scientist at DESY in the field of astroparticle physics and Professor for Theoretical Physics at the University of Potsdam. Together with his team, he studies energetic particles in the universe, their sources, their interactions with their environment and their decay products.
The universe harbours systems that are capable of accelerating individual particles to energies many orders of magnitude higher than is possible with human-built accelerators. What drives these systems is a major question in physics, and understanding them has far-reaching implications. Scientific questions include, for example: How do cosmic sources accelerate particles to very high energies? How are jets and energetic particles formed in supermassive black holes? What is the dark matter in the universe made of?
Academic career
| since 2009 |
Lead Scientist at DESY 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 Bochum |
| 1999-2002 | Research and Teaching Associate, Ruhr University Bochum |
| 2002 | Habilitation in Theoretical Physics, Ruhr University Bochum |
| 1997-1998 | Research Associate, Danish Space Research Institute, Copenhagen, Denmark |
| 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 |
