Reiner Kruecken

Who is Reiner Kruecken?

Reiner Kruecken is Head of the Science Division at TRIUMF, Canada’s National Laboratory for Particle and Nuclear Physics. He joined TRIUMF in February 2011 after 8 1/2 years at the Technical University Munich, Germany, where he holds the chair for Experimental Physics of Hadrons and Nuclei. Kruecken received his Ph.D. in nuclear physics from the University of Cologne in 1995. After a postdoctoral fellowship at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory he moved to Yale University in 1997 where he was an Assistant Professor at the Physics Department and the A.W. Wright Nuclear Structure Laboratory until he moved to Munich in 2002. His current research interests are in the area of the structure of exotic nuclei and nuclear matter, nuclear astrophysics, as well as applications of nuclear physics methods to radiation biology and medicine.

From 2007 until 2010 he served as the chair of the ‘Hadrons and Nuclei’ chapter of the Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft, and was its deputy chair in 2010 and 2011. From 2003 to 2009 Kruecken was a member of the German Advisory Committee for Hadrons and Nuclei and was its deputy chair from 2003 to 2006.