Ulrich Wiedner

Prof. Ulrich Wiedner is a Professor and Chair of Experimental Physics I at Ruhr University Bochum. His research focuses on hadron physics and the strong interaction, particularly through experiments at FAIR's PANDA facility and China's BES collaboration. He has led major international collaborations like the Crystal Barrel experiment at CERN and the PANDA Collaboration.

• Key roles: Spokesperson of PANDA Collaboration, Member of European Long Range Plan for Hadron Physics
• Current experiments: PANDA (FAIR), BES (charmonium studies), WASA-Celsius, COMPASS

Research emphasizes gluon ball discovery, mass generation mechanisms in hadrons, and confinement of quarks. Active in graduate education through programs like gradU in Uppsala. Extensive advisory roles include organizing major conferences like the European Nuclear Physics Conference and Enrico Fermi Summer School.