Professor Dr. rer. nat. Claus Lämmerzahl

ZARM, University of Bremen
Am Fallturm
28359 Bremen
Germany

phone:
+49 421 218-57834

email:
claus.laemmerzahl(at)zarm.uni-bremen.de

RESEARCH INTERESTS

  • General Relativity
  • Relativistic astrophysics: orbits of stars, accretion disks, shadow of Black Holes
  • Test theories for Special and General Relativity: Robertson-Mansouri-Sexl formalism, Standard Model Extension, parametrized post-Newton formalism, Finsler geometry, and others
  • Test of Special and General Relativity: Universality of Free Fall with MICROSCOPE, gravitational redshift with Galileo satellites, nonlinear electrodynamics, various proposals
  • Cold atoms in gravitational fields
  • Generalized electrodynamics: general constitutive laws, nonlinear electrodynamics
  • Quantum mechanics, in gravitational fields, Bose-Einstein condensates

COOPERATIONS

  • Research Training Group Models of Gravity 2012 - 2021
  • Excellence Cluster Quantum Frontiers (QF) 2019 -
  • Excellence Cluster Quantum Engineering and Space Time Research (QUEST) 2007 - 2013
  • Collaborative Research Center Relativistic Geodesy and Gravimetry with Quantum Sensors (geo-Q) 2014 – 2018
  • Collaborative Research Center Designed Quantum States of Matter (DQmat) 2016 –
  • COST Action CA16104 Black holes, gravitational waves and fundamental physics GWverse)
  • COST Action CA18108 Quantum gravity phenomenology in the multi-messenger approach
  • COST Action CA15220 Quantum Technologies in Space
  • ICRANet International Center for Relativistic Astrophysics

MEMBERSHIPS

  • Mexican Academy of Science AMC
  • International Academy for Astronautics IAA
  • German Physical Society
  • German Astronomical Society
  • Freunde des DLR

ACTIVITIES

  • Since 2018 Member of the National Committee (DFG) for COSPAR
  • Since 2014 Chair of Commission H of COSPAR
  • Since 2019 Member of the Executive Board of the Cluster of Excellence QuantumFrontiers
  • 2014 – 2018 Member of the Board of Directors of the Collaborative Research Center geoQ

SCIENTIFIC CAREER

  • 1975 – 1982 Study of Physics at University of Konstanz
  • 1982 Diploma in Physics, University Konstanz
  • 1989 PhD at University Konstanz
  • 1997 "Habilitation" in Theoretical Physics at University Konstanz

POSITIONS

  • 1989 - 1994 Postdoc at University of Konstanz
  • 1994 - 1996 Postdoc at Université Paris 6 (Pierre et Marie Curie) and at Institute de Physiques des Laser, Université Paris 13
  • 1996 - 2000 Postdoc at University Konstanz
  • 2000 - 2003 Postdoc at the Institute for Experimental Physics of the Heinrich Heine-University Düsseldorf
  • 2003 - 2008 Postdoc at ZARM, University Bremen
  • 2008 - 2012 Head of the group "Fundamental Physics'' at ZARM, University of Bremen
  • 2012 - 2016 Executive Director of ZARM, University of Bremen
  • 2012 - Director "Space Sciences'' am ZARM

TEACHING

Summer term 2021

  • Higher Theoretical Physics (Faculty 1, U Bremen)
  • Space and Research Mission (Faculty 4, U Bremen)

Winter term 2020/21

  • Space and Exploration Missions (Faculty 1, U Bremen)
  • Geodesy and Gravity (Master Space Science and Technology, Faculty 1, U Bremen)
  • Philosophy of time travel and space flight (faculty 1, U Bremen)
  • Higher Theoretical Physics / Höhere Theoretische Physik (Faculty 1, U Bremen): Relativistic quantum mechanics

Summer term 2020

  • Higher Theoretical Physics / Höhere Theoretische Physik (Faculty 1, U Bremen): Theory of distributions, Partial differential equations, relativistic fields, QED
  • Space and Research Mission (Faculty 4, U Bremen)
  • Accretion Disks (U Oldenburg)
  • Fascination Space (Faculty 1, U Bremen)

Winter term 2019/20

  • Space and Exploration Missions (Faculty 1, U Bremen)
  • Geodesy and Gravity (Master Space Science and Technology, Faculty 1, U Bremen)
  • Philosophy of time travel and space flight (faculty 1, U Bremen)
  • Theory of Distributions (U Oldenburg)

Summer term 2019

  • Space and Research Missions (Space Engineering, Faculty 4, U Bremen)
  • Hydrodynamics (Faculty 1, U Bremen)
  • Accretion disks (U Oldenburg)

Winter term 2018/19

  • Space and Exploration Missions (Master Space Science and Technology, Faculty 1, U Bremen)
  • Hydrodynamics (Faculty 1, U Bremen)
  • Statistical Physics (U Oldenburg)
  • Geodesy and Gravity (Master Space Science and Technology, Faculty 1, U Bremen)

Summer term 2018

  • Space and Research Missions (Space Engineering, Faculty 4, U Bremen)
  • Astrophysics (Faculty 1, U Bremen)
  • Quantenmechanik für Lehramtsstudierende (Faculty 1, U Bremen)

Winter term 2017/18

  • Statistische Physik (Faculty 1, U Bremen)
  • Klassische Mechanik für Lehramtsstudierende (Faculty 1, U Bremen)
  • Space and Exploration Missions (Master Space Science and Technology, Faculty 1, U Bremen)

Summer term 2017

  • Quantenmechanik für Lehramtsstudierende (Faculty 1, U Bremen)
  • Quantum mechanics and General Relativity (Faculty 1, U Bremen)
  • Ähnlichkeitsmechanik (Faculty 4, U Bremen)
  • Quantenmechanik II (U Oldenburg)

Winter term 2016/17

  • Klassische Mechanik für Lehramtsstudierende (Faculty 1, U Bremen)
  • Relativistische Hydrodynamik (U Oldenburg)

Summer term 2016

  • Quantenmechanik für Lehramtsstudierende (Faculty 1, U Bremen)
  • Ähnlichkeitsmechanik (Faculty 4, U Bremen)
  • Relativistische Hydrodynamik (Faculty 1, U Bremen)
  • Philosophie Schwarzer Löcher (U Oldenburg)

Winter term 2015/16

  • Klassische Mechanik für Lehramtsstudierende (Faculty 1, U Bremen)
  • Philosophie von Raum und Zeit (Faculty 1, U Bremen)

Summer term 2015

  • Introduction to General Relativity (U Oldenburg)
  • Ähnlichkeitsmechanik (Faculty 4, U Bremen)

Winter term 2014/15

  • Quantenmechanik II (U Oldenburg)
  • Spezielle Lösungen der Einsteinschen Feldgleichungen (U Oldenburg)
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