Profile
Benjamin Rienacker
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About Me:
I was once pleasantly surprised by the fact that people would pay me to play with oscilloscopes, electricity, magnets, cryogenics, mildly radioactive sources and all of these things. From that point on it felt kind of natural to study Applied Physics and then join a great group (AEgIS) at CERN. More recently I joined the University of Liverpool as Research Associate, and keep on conducting Slow Neutral Antimatter Precision Experiments.
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I'm a member of team AEgIS
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My Work:
Creating antimatter atoms and systems, and then I perform atomic physics experiments with a great team!
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Education:
Rudolf-Diesel Gymnasium (Augsburg, Germany)
University of Applied Sciences (Munich, Germany)
Technical University of Munich, Germany
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Qualifications:
B.Sc. in Applied Physics
M.Sc. in Micro- and Nanotechnology
PhD in physics
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Work History:
Studied in Munich
Working student at OSRAM
Research experience at the research neutron source Heinz Maier-Leibnitz (FRM II)
Doctoral Student at CERN in Geneva (3 years)
Senior Fellow at CERN in Geneva (3 years)
Research Assisstant at Liverpool since 2022 -
Job title:
Research Assisstant at the University of Liverpool
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Employer:
University of Liverpool
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My Interview
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How would you describe yourself in 3 words?
positively attituded positron-expert
What did you want to be after you left school?
inventor
Were you ever in trouble at school?
sure
If you weren't doing this job, what would you choose instead?
Hmm musician? I can't play, but I guess I could learn?
Who is your favourite singer or band?
Music is great. And there are many, many great singers and bands. My favourites fluctuate frequently (Now it is Devin Townsend, tomorrow maybe Aurora)
What's your favourite food?
Pizza
If you had 3 wishes for yourself what would they be? - be honest!
Time and/or the ability to require less sleep and actually nothing else. Some funding for some garage experiments maybe :)
Tell us a joke.
"Thunderbolt and Lightning, very very frightening me." - Galileo
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