Reiner Kruecken
Reiner Kruecken is an experimental nuclear physicist and the at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory since 2022. Previously, he served as deputy director at TRIUMF, Canada's Particle Accelerator Centre for 7 years. From 2011 to 2015 Kruecken was the Head of the Science Division at TRIUMF. During his time at TRIUMF he held a joint appointment as full professor in the at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. Before joining TRIUMF in 2011 he held the chair for Experimental Physics of Hadrons and Nuclei at the Technical University Munich, Germany from 2002 to 2011.
Education
Kruecken received both his undergraduate and doctorate degrees in physics from the University of Cologne in Germany.Career
After a postdoctoral fellowship at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Kruecken became an assistant professor at the Physics Department and the A.W. Wright Nuclear Structure Laboratory at Yale University in 1997. He has published on various topics in nuclear physics, nuclear astrophysics, and radiation detection, and applications of nuclear physics methods to radiation biology and medicine. He has carried out experiments at various particle accelerator facilities, including the, the at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, the of Argonne National Laboratory, GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research, the ISOLDE Radioactive Ion Beam Facility at CERN, and the at RIKEN.He has served as member on various international review, funding and advisory committees, including the Canadian Light Source, GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research, GANIL, J-PARC, RIKEN, SNOLAB. He served as member of the IUPAP Commission C12 on Nuclear Physics. He served as a member of the Committee of Experts of the . He served in the chair line of the 'Hadrons and Nuclei' chapter of the Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft, and Division of Nuclear Physics of the .
He was a member of the editorial boards of Progress in Nuclear and Particle Physics as well as European Physical Journal A. From 2006 to 2011 he was a member of the selection committee for the German Cecil Rhodes Scholarships of The Rhodes Trust, for which he served as chairmen from 2010 to 2011.