Thomas Aumann

Thomas Aumann is a Professor at the Institute of Nuclear Physics, Technical University of Darmstadt, serving as Working Group Leader for Experimental Nuclear Physics with Exotic Ion Beams, Coordinator of BMBF-FSP ErUM T07, and Managing Director of the Helmholtz Research Academy Hesse for FAIR (HFHF). His research group conducts experiments at major international facilities including GSI/FAIR and RIKEN.

His research focuses on experimental studies of exotic nuclei with extreme neutron-to-proton asymmetry to understand nuclear structure, reactions, and applications in nuclear astrophysics (e.g., element synthesis in the universe) and neutron star properties. His team develops instrumentation for facilities like R3B at GSI/FAIR, SAMURAI at RIKEN, and NEPTUN at S-DALINAC.

Professor Aumann leads the R3B collaboration—the only worldwide experiment enabling kinematically complete measurements of exotic nuclear reactions at high beam energies (up to 1 GeV/nucleon) with heavy nuclei and high resolution. His team includes permanent scientists, postdocs, doctoral students, and administrative staff.

Scientific Awards: None mentioned in the provided text.

He advises doctoral students Martin Baumann, Christian Helmel, and Nikhil Mozumdar. Research funding sources include:

• German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)
• Collaborative Research Center 1245 (SFB 1245)
• ELEMENTS Research Cluster
• German Research Foundation (DFG)
• LOEWE Research Cluster Nuclear Photonics
• GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research
• Helmholtz Research Academy Hesse for FAIR (HFHF)