Michael Grefe.
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Dr. Michael Grefe Portrait of Michael Grefe
Universität Hamburg
Cluster of Excellence Quantum Universe
Luruper Chaussee 149
22761 Hamburg
Germany
Office: Building 68, Room 102
Phone: +49 (0)40 8998-2151
E-Mail: michael.grefe@uni-hamburg.de
michael.grefe@desy.de
Homepage: http://www.desy.de/~mgrefe

Since February 2019 I am scientific manager of the research center CHAMPP at Universität Hamburg and of the Cluster of Excellence "Quantum Universe" funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) under Germany's Excellence Strategy. Quantum Universe is a project of the Universität Hamburg in collaboration with DESY.
From January 2017 to January 2019 I was managing director of the Collaborative Research Center SFB 676 "Particles, Strings and the Early Universe" funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). It is a joint research project of the Universität Hamburg and DESY. My duties include the controlling of the project finances, the management of the scientific programme and the implementation of equal opportunity measures. I am also scientific project coordinator for the Cluster of Excellence "Quantum Universe" and the research center CHAMPP at Universität Hamburg and part of the team behind the outreach format "Wissen fom Fass" (Science on Tap).
From January 2015 to December 2016 I was officer for public relations and communications at the Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter at the Center for Free-Electron Laser Science in Hamburg. From June 2015 to May 2016 I was also acting project coordinator of the ERC Synergy Grant Frontiers in Quantum Materials' Control (Q-MAC). The project aims at realizing ultrahigh temperature superconductivity by using a combination of material design, quantum optics theory, as well as ultrafast laser and X-ray physics. It involves groups from the Department of Quantum Matter Physics at the Université de Genève, the Clarendon Laboratory at the University of Oxford, the Centre de Physique Théorique at the École Polytechnique and the Condensed Matter Dynamics Department at the Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter in Hamburg.
From January 2014 to January 2015 I was coordinator of the research training program Astroparticle Physics with Multiple Messengers funded by the Forschungs- und Wissenschaftsstiftung Hamburg and led by Professor Günter Sigl. The program promoted the exchange of Ph.D. students between the Universität Hamburg, the Laboratoire Astroparticule et Cosmologie, Paris in France and the Astrophysics group of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. Participating groups in Hamburg were the Theoretical Astroparticle Physics Group, the Experimental Astroparticle Physics Group and the Hamburger Sternwarte at the Universität Hamburg, as well as the DESY Theory Group.
From October 2011 to December 2013 I was a postdoctoral researcher at the Departamento de Física Teórica of the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid and the Instituto de Física Teórica UAM/CSIC. I was involved in the Madrid node of the Marie Curie Initial Training Network "UNILHC" (Unification in the LHC era) PITN-GA-2009-237920 of the European Commission led by Professor Luis Ibáñez.
From November 2008 to September 2011 I was a research associate at the DESY Theory Group and involved in project C3 (Leptogenesis and Dark Matter) of the Collaborative Research Centre 676 funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft.
From October 2008 to July 2011 I was a doctoral candidate at the Department Physik of the Universität Hamburg. I prepared my doctoral thesis at the DESY Theory Group under the supervision of Professor Dr. Laura Covi.
From October 2007 to September 2009 I was involved in the Helmholtz Young Investigators Group Particle Physics and Cosmology: Beyond the two Standard Models led by Dr. Laura Covi and funded by the Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres.
From October 2003 to September 2008 I studied physics at the Department Physik of the Universität Hamburg. I prepared my diploma thesis at the DESY Theory Group under the supervision of Dr. Laura Covi.