New professorship in experimental astroparticle physics

The Department of Physics warmly welcomes Prof. Dr. Christian Glaser. After completing his doctorate at RWTH Aachen University in 2017, he was a DFG Fellow at the University of California, Irvine, before receiving an appointment at Uppsala University in Sweden in 2020. Since August 2025, he has been Professor of Experimental Astroparticle Physics at the Department of Physics at TU Dortmund University.

Christian Glaser is an astroparticle physicist with a particular interest in artificial intelligence, high-energy cosmic neutrinos and cosmic rays. His research focuses on the further development of radio technology for measuring these particles. He is playing key roles in two major international projects at some of the most extreme locations on Earth: the construction of the RNO-G detector in Greenland and the development of IceCube-Gen2 at the South Pole. He is also involved in the Pierre Auger Observatory in Argentina - the world's largest cosmic ray detector. In addition to the theoretical modeling of radio emission and the analysis of experimental data, he is also developing new types of detection hardware in Dortmund. One focus in the coming years will be the NuRadioOpt project funded by the European Research Council, with which Prof. Glaser hopes to significantly improve the performance of future neutrino detectors with the help of artificial intelligence. Prof. Glaser will be working closely with colleagues from TU Dortmund University and UA Ruhr who are conducting research in the field of astronomy and particle physics.