Alexandre Obertelli
Alexandre Obertelli is a French experimental nuclear physicist and Alexander von Humboldt Professor of Experimental Nuclear Structure Physics at the Institute of Nuclear Physics of the Technische Universität Darmstadt.
His research areas include radioactive nuclei and antimatter.
Life
Obertelli studied Physics at the University of Paris XI from 1999. He graduated with a Master's degree in 2002. He earned a PhD in Nuclear Physics in 2005 from the Institute of research into the fundamental laws of the Universe of the Fundamental Research Division of the Saclay Nuclear Research Centre. He was a postdoctoral fellow at the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory at Michigan State University. In 2006, he returned to IRFU for research. In 2011, he habilitated at the University of Paris XI. In 2013/14 he became a fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science at Riken. In 2017 he joined the Institute of Nuclear Physics of the Technische Universität Darmstadt. In 2019, he became Alexander von Humboldt Professor.He is a member of the User Executive Committee of the Radioactive Isotopes Beam Factory of Riken and co-spokesperson of the SEASTAR Collaboration. In 2018 he became a member of the scientific council of the R3B project group at the Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research in Darmstadt. He is a member of the scientific steering committees of the Grand Accélérateur National d'Ions Lourds and the Institute of Nuclear Physics in Orsay.