Vice President of Universität Hamburg

Prof. Dr. Jan Louis

1. Term of office | 1 August 2016–31 July 2019
2. Term of office | 1 August 2019–31 July 2022
3. Term of office | 1 August 2022–31 July 2025

Responsible for:

Research Management and Funding (Dept. 4)
Funding for doctoral and early career researchers: Hamburg Research Academy (HRA), Doctoral programs
Center for Sustainable Research Data Management
Digitalization
Information provision (libraries)

Office

Mittelweg 177, Room N 5073
20148 Hamburg
Tel.: +49 40 42838-2505
Email: vp.louis"AT"uni-hamburg.de

Profile

since 2003	C4 professor, Department of Physics, Universität Hamburg
1996–2002	C4 professur, Department of Physics, University of Halle
1995	Habilitation in physics, LMU München
1993–96	Heisenberg Fellow of the German Research Foundation (DFG), LMU München
1991–93	CERN (Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire) Fellow, Geneva, Switzerland
1988–91	Research associate at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC), Stanford University, USA
1988	Doctorate in physics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA

Research

theoretical particle physics
supersymmetry
string theory

Academic memberships

since 2019	Spokesperson for the Cluster of Excellence Quantum Universe, Universität Hamburg
since 2012	Member of the Advisory Board of the Mainz Institute for Theoretical Physics (MITP)
2009–15	Member of the scientific committee of the Galileo Galilei Institute for Theoretical Physics (GGI), Florence, Italy
2006–16	Spokesperson for the Collaborative Research Center "Particles, Strings and the Early Universe" (SFB 676)
2006–12	Member of the Minerva Weizmann Committee, Israel
since 2005	Founding member of the Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Hamburg
2004–08	Member of the Academic Senate, Universität Hamburg
2003–08	Member of the scientific advisory board of the Physikzentrum Bad Honnef (PBH)
2003–08	Member of the awards committee of the Deutschen Physikalischen Gesellschaft (DPG)
2000–07	Spokesperson for the DFG Priority Programme "String Theory in the Context of Particle Physics, Quantum Field Theory, Quantum Gravity, Cosmology and Mathematics" (SPP 1096)
1999–2007	Member of the advisory board of the Max-Planck-Institut für Mathematik in den Naturwissenschaften, Leipzig

Publications

https://inspirehep.net/