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Prof. Dr. Gisela Anton

Professor of Experimental Physics and Senior Fellow at ECAP · Erlangen Center for Astroparticle Physics (ECAP) & Department of Physics · University of Erlangen-Nuremberg

Academic focus & active research

Prof. Dr. Anton, recipient of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize, pioneered underwater acoustic neutrino detection and med-tech photon-counting detectors in collaboration with Siemens.

Acoustic Neutrino Detection X-Ray Phase-Contrast Imaging Photon-Counting Detectors Dark Matter Searches

Supervision & prospective applicants

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Department / Faculty
Erlangen Center for Astroparticle Physics (ECAP) & Department of Physics
Primary Field
Acoustic Neutrino Detection
Campus Location
Erlangen & Nuremberg, Bavaria, Germany

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