Prof. Dr. James D. Wells

Profil

Derzeitige StellungProfessor W-3 und Äquivalente
FachgebietElementarteilchenphysik,Astrophysik
Keywordsparticles, forces, top quark, colliders, Higgs boson

Aktuelle Kontaktadresse

LandUSA
OrtAnn Arbor
Universität/InstitutionUniversity of Michigan
Institut/AbteilungDepartment of Physics, Randall Laboratory

Gastgeber*innen während der Förderung

Prof. Dr. Christophe GrojeanDeutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY), Hamburg
Beginn der ersten Förderung01.07.2016

Programm(e)

2015Humboldt-Forschungspreis-Programm für Naturwissenschaftler*innen aus den USA

Projektbeschreibung der*des Nominierenden

Professor Wells is an internationally renowned theoretical physicist with several seminal contributions in collider physics and physics beyond the Standard Model. He is especially known for developing new approaches to supersymmetry. In addition, Professor Wells and collaborators were the first to show rigorously how to test theories of extra dimensions at a high energy collider. In Germany, he intends to pursue his research to fully characterize the Higgs boson profile and to study the interplay between Higgs physics and cosmology.