Norbert Wermes

Norbert Wermes was born in 1953 in Rheydt, Germany. After high school education until 1972, he studied physics and mathematics at the University of Bonn, Germany, where he received the B.S. degree in physics and mathematics, in 1974, and M.S. degree in physics, in 1978. He carried out his doctoral research at the German accelerator centre DESY in Hamburg on photon-photon interactions in electron-positron collisions with the TASSO experiment at the PETRA storage ring, where he received his Ph.D. degree at the University of Bonn in 1982. In 1982, he moved to Stanford University, USA, to carry out research on charm physics and J/psi decays with the MARK III experiment at the SPEAR storage ring at SLAC. In 1985, he became a staff Researcher at the European Laboratory for Particle Physics, CERN. He became an Associate Professor at Heidelberg University in 1989 and a Full Professor at Bonn University in 1992, declining an offer for a chair from the University of Wuppertal in 1999. In 2001, he was elected as a Member of the Academy of Sciences (NRW). Since 1985, he was involved in several international experiments at CERN: OPAL (electron-positron collisions at the LEP storage ring), NA45/CERES (heavy ion collisions at the SPS), and ATLAS (proton-proton collisions at the LHC), for which he is the National Contact Physicist for Germany and the Spokesman of the German main research program FSP-101 “Physics at the TeV Scale at LHC with ATLAS.” Since 2001, he is also a Member of the D0 collaboration at the Tevatron, Fermilab. From 2003 to 2009, he is a Member of the German high-energy physics funding referee board (BMBF). As the group leader in Bonn, he has supervised, since 1989, 80 diploma students and 45 Ph.D. students. His main research areas are experimental high-energy physics, hadron collider physics (heavy quarks, higgs-bosons), particle detectors, and microelectronics. Dr. Wermes has coauthored 631 papers in refereed journals.

Biography Updated on 29 December 2009

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