updated: April 2007

CURRICULUM VITAE

MEYER, Hans-Otto, Department of Physics, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405, USA (meyer1@indiana.edu, phone: (812)855-2883, fax: (812)855-6645).

Born October 29, 1943, Basel, Switzerland. Swiss citizen. Attended schools in Basel. Diploma in experimental physics, 1966, University of Basel (thesis: fabrication of lithium-drifted silicon detectors). Ph.D. in experimental nuclear physics, 1970, University of Basel (thesis: tensor polarization in low-energy deuteron scattering from carbon).

Research Associate, University of Wisconsin, 1971-73 (polarization phenomena in low-energy elastic scattering and transfer reactions, development of photon-imaging detector for use in nuclear medicine, US patent). Visiting Scientist, Los Alamos Meson Physics Facility, under fellowship by Schweizerischer Nationalfonds, 1973-74 (pion-nucleus total cross sections, polarization in three-body breakup in few-nucleon systems, participation in pion radiation therapy program at LAMPF). Research Associate, University of Washington, 1974 (proton scattering from ¹²C, spectroscopy of ¹³N). Assistent, University of Basel 1974-77 (pionic atoms, anomalous alpha scattering from medium-weight nuclei). Privatdozent (venia legendi), 1977, University of Basel (thesis of habilitation: forward dispersion relations in proton-nucleus elastic scattering).

Associate Professor, Indiana University, 1978-83; Professor, Indiana University, 1983 to present. Research activities while at Indiana: nucleon-nucleus elastic scattering and reactions at intermediate energies, effective NN interaction and nuclear matter density, pion production from nuclei, few-nucleon electromagnetic reactions, development of liquid hydrogen target. After 1982 (start of the new Cooler project) research focused on physics with stored, cooled beams: internal target development, interaction of stored beams with internal targets, exploration of electron cooling and of new experimental possibilities, development of new techniques, pion production near threshold in few-nucleon systems, nucleon-nucleon interaction, stored, polarized beams, polarized, internal targets.

After shutdown of Cooler, development of a Neutron Radiography station at LENS-IUCF, member of the MiniBoone collaboration (neutrino oscillations), member of the Finesse collaboration (neutrino reactions, development of new detector concept), member of the nEDM collaboration (neutron electric dipole moment measurement, study of photomultipliers at low temperature), member of the PAX collaboration at the GSI, Germany (anti-proton-proton scattering experiments with polarization).

Sabbatical year at CERN, Geneva, Switzerland, 1985/86 (neutral decay modes of the proton-antiproton system at rest, LEAR experiment). Member of Program Advisory Committee COSY, Juelich, Germany, 1995-2001. Experiment Evaluation Committee, TRIUMF, Vancouver, Canada, 1998-2002. Fellow of the American Physical Society, 1996, German Humboldt prize, 2007. Professor Emeritus, 2007.