Overview
Research Focus
- Heavy-flavor physics
- Effective field theories
- Heavy-quark expansions and renormalization group techniques
- B-physics and CP violation
- Quantum-field theories of strong and electroweak interactions
- Physics beyond the Standard Model
- Collider physics
Awards and Honors
- Fellow, German National Scholarship Foundation, 1985-93
- Research Award, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, 2005
- Fellow, American Physical Society, 2006
- Member, Heidelberg Academy of Sciences, 2008
- Member, Gutenberg Academy Mainz, 2009
- J. Hans D. Jensen Award, 2010
- Editor, Journal of High Energy Physics, 1997-present
- Editor, European Physics Journal, 1998-present
- Editor, Reviews of Modern Physics, 2001-2004
Professional Experience
- Research Associate, Heidelberg University, 1990-91.
- Research Associate, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC), 1991-93.
- Staff Member, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland, 1993-98.
- Visiting Professor, Stanford University and SLAC, 1999.
- Adjunct Professor, Physics, Heidelberg University, 1988-present.
- Professor, Physics, Cornell University, 1999-2008.
- Chair for Theoretical Physics, Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany, 2006-present.
- Adjunct Professor, Cornell University, 2008-present.