CV

Andrzej Buras is recognized as one of the world’s leading scientists in applied quantum field theory. His research in this area is aimed at constructing a “flavor theory” (diverse quarks and leptons). As part of this, he examines various extensions of standard models of elementary particle physics with an emphasis on flavor-changing meson decay and violation of CP symmetry. He carried out studies on tests of the standard model and alternative proposals as part of super symmetry, Little Higgs models and models with extra spatial dimensions. With more than 230 academic publications and over 60 conference papers, he is one of the most cited elementary particle theorists in Europe. Until 2008 Andrzej Buras was also committed to the organization of workshops for the German Electron Synchrotron (Deutsches Elektronen Synchrotron, DESY) and Schloss Ringberg research centres. Even after becoming a professor emeritus, he continues to conduct research at the TUM Institut for Advanced Study (IAS) as the 2011 recipient of an ERC grant (2011-2016).

 

Short biography

until 1971	Study of physics, University of Warsaw; Masters Degree in Theoretical Physics
1972	Doctoral studies in high energy theoretical physics, Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen
1972 – 1975	Postdoctoral fellow, Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen
1975 – 1977	Fellow in the Theoretical Physics Group at CERN, Geneva
1977 – 1982	Visitor, associate scientist, staff member at Fermilab Theory Group (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory), USA
1982 – 1988	Scientific associate, Max Planck Institute of Physics, Munich
1988 – 2012	Professor of theoretical elementary particle physics, TUM
2008 – 2011	Carl von Linde senior fellowship, Institute for Advanced Study, TUM

 

Memberships and honors

Member of the Program Advisory Committee (SPSC) at CERN (1985-1988)

Member of the referee committee “Middle Energy” Federal German ministry of research and technology, Bonn (1989-1993)

Member of the programming and organization committee, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, USA (1991-1995)

Member of the editorial board, Physical Review D Journal, American Physical Society (1992-1995)

Review board for elementary particle physics, German Research Foundation (DFG) (1996-2004)

Member of the Physics Research Committee of German Electron Synchrotron (DESY) research centre (1998-2002)

Member of the editorial board, Physical Review Letters magazine, American Physical Society (2002-2005)

Member of the European Committee for Future Accelerators (ECFA), CERN, Geneva (1986-1992, 2002-2006)

Member of the advisory committee (BELLE), KEK High Energy Accelerator Research Organization, Japan (2006-2010)

Research group leader of the excellence cluster “Origin and Structure of the Universe”, TUM (2007-2011)
Member of the Research Board of the Cluster (2006-2012)

Leader of the focus group “Fundamental Physics”, TUM-IAS (Institute for Advanced Study) (2007-2011)

Member of the advisory council, TUM-IAS (2008-2011)

 

Honorable memberships

Ordinary Member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities (from 2010)

International member of the Polish Academy of Punditry (PAUZA), Crakow (from 2011)

International member of the Polish Academy of Science (PAN), Warsaw (from 2013)

Member of the Warsaw Scientific Society, Warsaw (from 2021)

Member of the Academia Europaea (from 2022)

 

Guest lecturer/professor

Distinguished lecturer, University of Alberta (2004)

Schrödinger guest professor, University of Vienna (2010) 

 

Membership of organizing committees

Member of the Local Organizing Committee of the Rochester Conference in Munich (1988)

Member of the organization committee of the Ringberg Workshop “Hadronic Matrix Elements and Weak Decays” (1988), “Advances in Non-Perturbative and Perturbative Techniques” (1994), “Heavy Flavors” (2003, 2006), “Flavors and Jets” (2009)

Member of the local Organizing Committee of the Photon-Lepton Konferenz in Hamburg (1997)

Chair of the organization committee of the DESY (German Electron Synchrotron) Workshop “Waiting for the Top Quark” (1990), “Discrete Symmetries” (1996), “CP Violation” (2000)

Co-organizer of the workshop “Indirect searches for New Physics at the time of the LHC”, Galileo Galilei Institute for Theoretical Physics (GGI) (2010)

 

Awards

• Polish-German Marian Smoluchowski-Emil Warburg Physics Prize, collaborative award from the German and Polish Physics Societies (2007)
• Carl von Linde Senior Fellowship at the TUM Institute for Advanced Study, TU Munich (2008)
• European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grant (2011-2016)
• TUM Emeritus of Excellence, TU Munich (2012)
• Max-Planck-Medal of the German Physical Society (2020)

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