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Professor Dr. Alexander Kappes

Current affiliations

Professorship for Experimental Physics (Prof. Kappes)

Curriculum Vitae (CV)

Astroparticle and particle physics with neutrino telescopes
Development of optical sensors for neutrino detectors

Academic Education
since 2010	Habilitation in physics at university Erlangen-Nürnberg on "Exploring the non-thermal universe with high-energy neutrinos"
1998 - 2001	PhD thesis at university Bonn, title: "Measurement of e-p -> e-X differential cross sections at high Q^2 and if the structure function xF_3 with ZEUS at HERA"
1997	Diploma thesis at university Bonn
1992 - 1997	Study of physics at university Bonn
Work Experience
since 01/2016	Professor of physics at the University Münster
04/2010 - 12/2015	Akad. Oberrat a.Z. at the University Erlangen-Nürnberg
10/2010 - 09/2013	Interim Professor at the Humboldt-University Berlin
10/2010 - 09/2013	Senior Scientist at DESY in Zeuthen
09/2002 - 03/2010	Research assistant at the University Erlangen-Nürnberg
10/2006 - 11/2008	Research stay at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
01/2002 - 08/2002	Postdoc at the University Bonn

Publications

Search for Galactic Core-collapse Supernovae in a Decade of Data Taken with the IceCube Neutrino Observatory Abbasi R; others (2024) In: Astrophysical Journal, 961(1), 84-84. doi:10.3847/1538-4357/ad07d1 Research article (journal) \| Peer reviewed \| Published
Search for a light sterile neutrino with 7.5~years of IceCube DeepCore data Abbasi R; others (2024) In: Physical Review D (PRD), 110(7), 072007-072007. doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.110.072007 Research article (journal) \| Peer reviewed \| Published
Probing the Connection between IceCube Neutrinos and MOJAVE AGN Abbasi R; others (2024) In: Astrophysical Journal, 973(2), 97-97. doi:10.3847/1538-4357/ad643d Research article (journal) \| Peer reviewed \| Published
Exploration of mass splitting and muon/tau mixing parameters for an eV-scale sterile neutrino with IceCube Abbasi R; others (2024) In: Physics Letters B, 858, 139077-139077. doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2024.139077 Research article (journal) \| Peer reviewed \| Published
Search for an eV-Scale Sterile Neutrino Using Improved High-Energy \ensuremath{ν}\ensuremath{μ} Event Reconstruction in IceCube Abbasi R; others (2024) In: Physical Review Letters, 133(20), 201804-201804. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.133.201804 Research article (journal) \| Peer reviewed \| Published

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Projects

Verbundprojekt 05D2022 - ErUM-Wave: Antizipation 3-dimensionaler Wellenfelder, Teilprojekt 1 (ErUM-Wave) Duration: 01/03/2023 - 28/02/2026 Funded by: Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space Type of project: Participation in federally funded joint project
Deutsch-Spanischer Doppelabschluss in Physik Duration: 01/08/2020 - 30/09/2024 \| 2nd Funding period Funded by: DAAD - Integrated International Degree Programmes with Double Degrees Type of project: Individual project
Verbundprojekt 05A2020 - ICECUBE: Astroteilchenphysik mit dem IceCube Neutrinoteleskop. Teilprojekt 4 (IceCube) Duration: 01/07/2020 - 31/12/2023 \| 2nd Funding period Funded by: Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space Type of project: Participation in federally funded joint project
RTG 2149: Strong and Weak Interactions - from Hadrons to Dark Matter Duration: 01/03/2020 - 31/08/2024 \| 2nd Funding period Funded by: DFG - Research Training Group Type of project: Main DFG-project hosted at University of Münster
Verbundprojekt 05A2017 - ICECUBE: Astroteilchenphysik mit dem IceCube-Observatorium. Teilprojekt 3 (IceCube) Duration: 01/07/2017 - 31/12/2020 \| 1st Funding period Funded by: Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space Type of project: Participation in federally funded joint project

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Doctorates

Development of a soft X-ray spectrometer for fluorescence photons emitted during laser cooling at SIS100 and of a fast high voltage divider for CRYRING@ESR Candidate: Ueberholz, Ken \| Supervisors: Weinheimer, Christian; Hannen, Volker \| Reviewers: Weinheimer, Christian; Kappes, Alexander Period of time: 01/06/2020 - 05/09/2025 Doctoral examination procedure finished at: Doctoral examination procedure at University of Münster
Indirect search for dark matter with the IceCube neutrino telescope Candidate: Busse, Raffaela Solveig \| Supervisors: Kappes, Alexander; Klasen, Michael Period of time: 01/02/2019 - 31/01/2022 Doctoral examination procedure finished at: Doctoral examination procedure at University of Münster
Phenomenology of Beyond the Standard Model extensions in collider experiments Candidate: Frisenna, Fausto \| Supervisors: Kulesza, Anna; Kappes, Alexander \| Reviewers: Kulesza, Anna; Kappes, Alexander; Stöckinger, Dominik Period of time: 01/11/2018 - 30/10/2021 Doctoral examination procedure finished at: Doctoral examination procedure at University of Münster
Analysis of data from the KM3NeT neutrino telescope Candidate: Guderian, Daniel \| Supervisors: Kappes, Alexander Period of time: 01/09/2018 - 31/08/2021 Doctoral examination procedure finished at: Doctoral examination procedure at University of Münster
Development and characterization of a multi-PMT optical module for the upgrade of the IceCube neutrino telescope Candidate: Unland Elorrieta, Martin Antonio \| Supervisors: Kappes, Alexander Period of time: 01/03/2018 - 28/02/2021 Doctoral examination procedure finished at: Doctoral examination procedure at University of Münster

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