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35041 Marburg (DE)
phone: +49 (0) 6421 8867702
e-mail: claude.krantz 'at' zwergenschaenke.net
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Personal Details |
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| Name | Claude Krantz, Dr. rer. nat. Dipl.-Phys. |
| born | on 14th May 1980 in Luxembourg |
| Citizenship | Luxembourgian |
| Civil status | married, one child |
| Employer | GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy-Ion Research |
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Professional Career |
| Since 2020 | Staff scientist, GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy-Ion Research, Darmstadt, assigned to the Beam Cooling department. |
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• Operation of the CRYRING@ESR cooler storage ring • Maintenance and upgrades of the electron cooler |
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| 2015 - 2020 | Accelerator physicist, Marburg Ion-Beam Therapy Centre, Marburg, with focus on synchrotron operation and high-energy beam transfer. |
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• Deputy head of accelerator operations (2017 – 2020) • Head of accelerator controls group (2018 – 2019) • Research and development in slow extraction |
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| 2009 - 2015 | Postdoctoral scientist, Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics, Heidelberg. |
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• Co-development and commissioning of the Cryogenic Storage Ring CSR • Development of the CSR electron cooler and particle detectors • Research in electron cooling at the heavy-ion storage ring TSR • Realisation of many electron cooler experiments at TSR |
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Other Academic Activities |
| Collaboration | Guest scientist, Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics, Heidelberg. |
| • Electron cooler experiments at the Cryogenic Storage Ring CSR (since 2017) | |
| Teaching | Guest lecturer at |
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• University of Gießen (2016 – 2024) • Christoph-Schmelzer Summer School (2023) • Helmholtz Graduate School for Hadron and Ion Research (2017) |
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| Tutor at | |
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• Helmholtz Graduate School for Hadron and Ion Research (since 2022) • University of Heidelberg (2012 – 2015) |
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| Awards | Dieter Möhl Medal of CERN (2023) |
| Journals refereed |
Optik, Nuclear Instrum. Methods Phys. Res. Sect A, J. Phys. Conf. Ser., Atoms, Materials, Nanomaterials |
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Education |
| Doctoral Studies | |
| 28th October 2009 | Doctor of Natural Science (Dr. rer. nat.) of the University of Heidelberg. Graduation with great honor ("magna cum laude"). |
| 2006 - 2009 | PhD work, Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics, Heidelberg, under supervision by Prof. Dr. Andreas Wolf. |
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• Research in cold electron sources and electron cooling • Realisation of many TSR experiments on atomic and molecular physics |
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| Graduate and Undergraduate Studies | |
| 2000 - 2006 | Studies in physics at the University of Heidelberg. |
| 3rd March 2006 | Graduation in physics (Dipl.-Phys.) in Heidelberg, with verdict very good. |
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• Master work ("Diplomarbeit") supervised by Prof. Dr. Hartmut Abele (2005) • Research at Institut Laue-Langevin, Grenoble, France (March 2005) |
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| 15th April 2002 | Intermediate graduation ("Vordiplom") in physics with verdict very good. |
| College and School | |
| 1992 - 1999 | Secondary education at Lycée de Garçons, in Esch/Alzette, G.-D. of Luxembourg. |
| 1985 - 1992 | Elementary education at the primary school of Pontpierre, G.-D. of Luxembourg. |
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Notable Skills |
| Languages | |
| Native language | Luxembourgish |
| Fluent in | German, English, French |
| Basic knowledge | Latin |
| Computing | |
| Software | MS Office, LibreOffice, LaTeX, Mathematica, SolidEdge, Origin, QtiPlot, GnuPlot, MAD/X, MIRKO, SIMION, BetaCOOL |
| Programming | C/C++, Python, Mathematica, ROOT, bash |
| Op. systems | GNU/Linux, FreeBSD, Windows, Windows Server |
| Non-Professional Activities | |
| Leisure | Running, cycling, archery |
| Memberships | German Physical Society (DPG), Naturschutzbund (NABU), Schnelle Ionen |
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Publications |
| Dissertation | C. Krantz, Intense Electron Beams from GaAs Photocathodes as a Tool for Molecular and Atomic Physics, Universität Heidelberg, 2009. [ http ] |
| Articles | (Selection, full list at https://findus.zwergenschaenke.net/∼puma/publist.html) |
| C. Krantz et al., Operational tests of CRYRING@ESR without electron cooler solenoid compensation, J. Phys. Conf. Ser. 2687 (2024) 052026. [ doi ] | |
| C. Krantz et al., Transverse electron cooling of heavy molecular ions, Phys. Rev. Accel. Beams 24 (2021) 050101. [ doi ] | |
| C. Krantz et al., Single-particle detection of products from atomic and molecular reactions in a cryogenic ion storage ring, Nucl. Instrum. Methods Phys. Res., Sect. A 851 (2017) 92-102. [ doi ] | |
| C. Krantz et al., Recombination of open-f-shell tungsten ions, J. Phys. B: At. Mol. Opt. Phys. 50 (2017) 052001. [ doi ] |