Nuclear Physics

Since  2012 I am a researcher in the Nuclear Fuel group, a subgroup of the Radiation and Enviromental Protection group at the Gesellschaft fuer Reaktorsicherheit (GRS) at Garching (Munich).

My research circles around model building, resulting predictions and the validation of them via experimental data, mainly in the field of nuclear criticallity safety and predictions concerning long term interim storage of spent nuclear fuel. It covers some fields of physics (e.g. nuclear physics, solid state physics, statistical physics,  phase transitions, particle transport theory,…) and mathematical tools (e.g. data analysis, Monte Carlo simulations, statistics,…).

I am a member of the Working Party for Nuclear Criticality Safety expert groups of the OECD Nuclear Energy Agency, e.g. on “Advanced Monte Carlo Techniques“, “Burn-up Credit Criticality“, and “Uncertainty Analysis for Criticality Safety Assessment“.

Some more or less recent publications can be found here, here or here, and here.

Since the winter term 2015 I am giving lectures on nuclear physics related fields at the Faculty of Physics of the University Bielefeld. Related informations and stuff can be found here.