News from the DESY research centreKerstin Tackmann selected for visiting professorship in Berkeley

16 March 2023

Photo: DESY, Lars Berg

Kerstin Tackmann is now a visiting professor at the University of California for four months.

Award for particle physicist Kerstin Tackmann: From mid-March, she will take up a visiting professorship at the University of California in Berkeley, California. The Miller Institute for Basic Research in Science is an institution of the university that has been promoting basic research since the 1950s. Every year, visiting professorships named “Visiting Miller Research Professorships” are awarded to eminent and aspiring scientists to bring them to campus for a short period of time and to promote collaboration with researchers on site.

Kerstin Tackmann knows the University in Berkeley very well—she completed her PhD there before coming first to CERN and then to DESY. In her almost four months at Berkeley, she will continue the research she is already doing at DESY and in her position as professor at the University of Hamburg: Investigations around the Higgs particle at the ATLAS experiment at CERN and B-meson decays at the Belle II experiment in Japan.

“The professorship will allow me to interact more directly with colleagues there, with whom I also work more or less closely now,” says Tackmann. “We have plans for work in Higgs physics, B physics and reconstruction with the new ATLAS tracker.” She was nominated for the visiting professorship by her colleagues in California.