New DESY Board Representative in Zeuthen:

Astroparticle physicist Prof. Dr. Christian Stegmann is the new head of the Brandenburg DESY site. He took over responsibility on 1 October 2011 and represents the site on the DESY executive board. With this move, Stegmann responds to a joint call to the University of Potsdam and to DESY. Stegmann takes over management of the Zeuthen site from Hans-Jürgen Grabosch, who had been filling the post in an acting capacity since Ulrich Gensch, head of the Zeuthen site for many years, had entered into retirement. Stegmann earned his diploma in the context of the ZEUS experiment at DESY in Hamburg after studying physics at the University of Bonn. After earning his doctorate at the University of Freiburg, Stegmann came to the DESY site Zeuthen in 1995, where he researched for the HERA-B detector for five years. Christian Stegmann subsequently shifted his focus to ground based astroparticle physics. In the period prior to his taking up his new duties in Zeuthen, Stegmann taught at the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg. The astroparticle physicist conducts research for the H.E.S.S. experiment (High Energy Spectroscopic System), a system of Cherenkov detectors located in Namibia, by which the scientists investigate cosmic showers of ultra-high energy gamma particles.

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