PD Dr. Edwin Kolbe
LecturerPhilosophisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät
Departement Physik
Studium/Lehre
Lecturer
Departement Physik
Klingelbergstrasse 82
4056
Basel
Schweiz
PD Dr. Edwin Kolbe
Short Biography
- 1982-1988 Student of Physics and Mathematics at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität in Münster, Germany
- 1988 Diploma in Physics
- 1992 PhD in theoretical Physics, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster
- 1993-1994 Research Fellow at the Kellogg Radiation Laboratory of the California Institute of Technology, USA
- 1999 Privat-Dozent (Habilitation in Physics), University of Basel
- 2001-2005 Project Manager at nagra
- 2006-2011 Research Associate at the Laboratory for Reactor Physics and Systems Behaviour at the Paul Scherrer Institute, Villigen, Switzerland
- 2012-2014 Station Nuclear Engineer at the Axpo NPP Beznau, Switzerland
- Since 2015 Head of the section Reactor at the Axpo NPP Beznau, Switzerland
Research Summary
- Theoretical Nuclear Physics, description of nuclear reactions within microscopic models and the
- Statistical Model Focus on scattering reactions relevant in Neutrino- and Astrophysics
- Climate Research, computer-analysis of Earthshine-observations.
- Reactor Physics, criticality safety calculations, burnup calculations