Visiting Professor from Prague at the Department of Physics
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The Department of Physics established the Ulrich Bonse Guest Chair for Instrumentation in 2022. This enables the faculty to invite an internationally recognised guest every semester. The visiting professors offer courses from their field of research and also strengthen the scientific networks of the researchers. In addition to teaching subject-specific content, students also gain an impression of the teaching concepts and forms of teaching at other universities abroad. The guest chair is funded by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) as part of its guest lecturer programme.
Prof Dr Andre Sopczak will take over the guest chair in the 2024 summer term. André Sopczak is Associate Professor at the Czech Technical University (CTU) in Prague. After studying at LMU Munich, he completed his doctorate at the University of California, San Diego in 1992, then worked as a CERN and DESY Fellow on the L3 experiment and subsequently as a research and teaching assistant at the University of Karlsruhe on the DELPHI experiment. After the LEP era at CERN, he worked in research and teaching as a UK Lecturer at the D0 experiment at Fermilab and on future linear accelerator projects. In 2012 he moved to the Institute of Experimental and Applied Physics at CTU in Prague with a focus on the ATLAS experiment. His research focuses on the study of heavy particles, in particular the Higgs boson and its connection with the top quark. He is also involved in measuring the luminosity of the ATLAS experiment using modern semiconductor detectors.
The guest chair is named after Prof Ulrich Bonse: he came to the newly founded University of Dortmund in 1970 and was a founding member of the Department of Physics, which he continued to shape after his retirement in 1993. Among other things, he was Dean of the Faculty, Senator of the University and Vice-Rector for Research. Prof Bonse received several awards for his research and his commitment to TU Dortmund University. His research focussed on X-ray interferometry and X-ray microtomography with synchrotron radiation.