Contact information:
Dr. Lars Mohrmann
Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics
Saupfercheckweg 1, 69117 Heidelberg, Germany
Office BO-221
Phone: +49 6221 516145
E-Mail: lars.mohrmann AT mpi-hd.mpg.de
I am a researcher in the field of astroparticle physics.
Experiments in this field are often quite large projects, run by hundreds of scientists, and producing “Big Data”. I am an expert in analysing these data.
I became first interested in astroparticle physics during my studies at RWTH Aachen University. In my Bachelor and Master thesis projects, I have worked on radio detection of cosmic-ray air showers at the Pierre Auger Observatory, located in Argentina.
For my PhD I went to DESY, Zeuthen, joining the IceCube Collaboration – a large international group of scientists operating the IceCube Neutrino Observatory at the geographical South Pole. In my PhD project, I carried out the first comprehensive measurement of the energy spectrum and flavour composition of the cosmic neutrino flux that has been discovered with IceCube (see here for more details about my PhD work).
At my first PostDoc position at the Erlangen Centre for Astroparticle Physics, I then turned to gamma-ray astronomy and have worked with the High Energy Stereoscopic System (H.E.S.S.), an array of five so-called “Cherenkov telescopes” located in Namibia. With H.E.S.S., I study the sources of the highest-energy gamma rays in our Galaxy, the Milky Way. I also contributed to the development of a successor experiment to H.E.S.S., the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA), which is going to be constructed during the next years in Chile and on the island of La Palma.
Currently, I work at the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics (MPIK) in Heidelberg, where I lead the H.E.S.S. group and am also still involved with the CTA project.
When I’m not working, I enjoy spending time with my family, reading a good book, and photography.
For more information about my scientific career, check out my CV. Visit the Research site to learn more about the science I’m doing.