Contact

Email: Jochen.Schieck(at)oeaw.ac.at

Telephone: +43 1 51581 - 2801

Location: HEPHY

Room: 110

Biographical sketch

Postdoctorate career

• winter term 16/17 visiting Professor at the Universität für angewandte Kunst Wien
• since 2014 full Professor at the Vienna University of Technology
• since 2013 Director of the Institute of High Energy Physics of the Austrian Academy of Sciences
• 2010-2013 W2 Professor at the Ludwig Maximilians University Munich and Junior Research Group Leader at the Excellence Cluster Universe "Origin and Structure of the Universe"
• 2006-2010  Assistant to the Managing Director of the Max Planck Institute for Physics, Munich, Germany
• 2005-2006 Scientific Coordinator of the International Max Planck Research School for Elementary Particle Physics, the Max-Planck-Institute for Physics, Munich
• 2001-2005, Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Max-Planck-Institute for Physics, Munich
• 1999-2001, Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Maryland, US

 Academic education with degree

• 1992-1996 Physics at the University of Heidelberg, Diploma, Prof. J. v. Krogh

 Scientific degrees

• Doctorate: Physics, University of Heidelberg, 1999, Prof. J. v. Krogh

Funding

• Spannungsversorgung,  Service und Positionsbestimmung für den Belle II-DEPFET Pixel Detektor, BMBF 05H12WM8
• Erforschung der Grenzen des Standardmodells mit dem ATLAS Detektor bei LHC (main proposer and project leader: Prof. Dorothee Schaile), BMBF 05H12WM1
• Excellence Cluster Origin and Structure of the Universe, DFG 153, one out of 25 principal investigator
• A new detector concept for Dark Matter Searches, Innovation Fund Research, Science and Society of ÖAW
• Simulation for the development of detectors for direct dark matter searches, SFB “Neutrinos and Dark Matter in Astro- and Particle Physics” (SFB 1258), FWF I 3299
• Faculty member of the Doktoratskolleg "Particles and Interactions", FWF W1252 
• Simulation for the Search of Dark Matter with CRESST,  SFB “Neutrinos and Dark Matter in Astro- and Particle Physics” (SFB 1258), FWF I 5420
• Strong-SM, FWF FG-1

 

Professional Service

• Chair of the local organizing committee of the European Physical Society Conference on High Energy Physics (2015) 
• Chair of the collaboration board of the CRESST collaboration (since 2017)
• Vice-President of CERN Council (2019-2022)
• Member of the Scientific Advisory Board for non-clinical research of MedAustron (since 2022)
• Member of the Scientific Council of DESY (since 2023) 
• Chair of CERN Audit Committee (since 2023)
• Chair of the local organizing committee XVIII International Conference on Topics in Astroparticle and Underground Physics 2023 (TAUP 2023) 

 

 

Teaching

• TU Vienna 
  • 142.092, Lecture "Atomic, Nuclear and Particle Physics II"
  • 141.243, Lecture "Selected Experiments of Atomic, Nuclear and Particle Physics"
  • 141.A49, Lecture "Search for Dark Matter"
  • 141.069, Seminar on Atomic- and Subatomic Physics
  • 141.A45, Project Work "Methods for Particle Physics"
  • 141.039, Project Work "Experimental Particle Physics"

Research interests

I am searching for signatures of physics beyond the Standard Model of particle physics. This involves several different search paths like direct searches for Dark Matter with the CRESST experiment at Gran Sasso and indirect searches for unknown physics signatures with flavour physics. Besides this searches for new phenomena I studied aspects of the strong interaction, in particular the strong coupling constant of Quantum Chromo Dynamics (QCD). 

Instrumentation and commissioning of modern high energy physics experiments is another focus of my work. Here my emphasis is on tracking, starting from the development and construction of silicon based particle detectors to calibration of tracking detectors using track based alignment algorithms.   

Outreach activities

I gave several presentations about particle physics for the general public, including presentations for high school students within the High Energy Physics Masterclass program. I acted as a tour guide for various experimental setups and I participated in dedicated outreach programs approaching the public in an unusal way like the Cafe and Kosmos program.  

I was in charge for the contribution from HEPHY to the exhibition "The beginning of everything. About Galaxies, Quarks and Collisions"  at the Naturhistorisches Museum Wien. 

During the exhibition I gave a presentation about the Standard Model of particle Physics - "Alles Quark?".

Publications