Beate Heinemann
Beate Heinemann is a German particle physicist who has held positions at universities in Europe and the USA. She currently holds a joint appointment at two German institutions, Albert Ludwigs University of Freiburg and the DESY laboratory in Hamburg.Early career
Born in Germany, Beate Heinemann studied for her undergraduate degree and PhD in Physics at the University of Hamburg in Germany. She became an associate professor at the University of California, Berkeley in 2006.Research
She worked on the H1 experiment at DESY, Hamburg, before starting work in the international CDF collaboration at the Tevatron.
She became a member of the ATLAS collaboration in 2007 at CERN, where she has been researching to secure a deeper understanding of the fundamental particles of the standard model. The research has progressed with confirmation of the existence of the Higgs boson at the Large Hadron Collider in 2012. Beate Heinemann and her colleagues at CERN also strive to understand at a very fundamental level, how the universe works, what matter is made of, how matter dominated antimatter at the early hours of the universe.Publications and media work
She has published several hundred articles in peer reviewed scientific journals.
In 2013 she was elected as deputy spokesperson of the ATLAS Collaboration at CERN. She served until 2017 and has been quoted in the media.Awards
In 2004 Beate Heinemann was awarded a Royal Society University Research Fellowship at the University of Liverpool.
In 2009 she was made a fellow of the American Physical Society.
