Markus Klute

Markus Klute is Alexander-von-Humboldt Professor of experimental particle physics at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), heading the Institute of Experimental Particle Physics (ETP). He is a long-standing member of the CMS collaboration at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider and has previously held professorships at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the University of Göttingen.

Education

• Studied mathematics and physics at the University of Bonn

Research interests

His work focuses on probing the fundamental constituents of matter and the forces governing them. Using the CMS detector, he investigates the properties of the Higgs boson and searches for signatures of physics beyond the Standard Model. Complementary efforts include detector R&D for high-precision tracking and calorimetry, application of machine-learning algorithms to petabyte-scale collision data, and the development of distributed computing infrastructures. He also leads and contributes to several next-generation experiments aimed at discovering feebly interacting or dark-matter particles, such as DELight, FCC-ee, LUXE_NPOD and SHADOWS.

Awards

• Alexander-von-Humboldt-Professorship

Teaching & advising

At KIT he teaches undergraduate and graduate courses, offers laboratory exercises, and supervises bachelor and master theses in particle physics, detector technology, and data analysis. He actively engages in outreach, presenting the mysteries of high-energy physics to scientists, students, and the public.

Labs & teams

Prof. Klute leads the CMS group at KIT and coordinates efforts on detector construction, data analysis, and computing. His team collaborates closely with international partners across CERN, DESY, and Fermilab.