PD Dr. Edwin Kolbe
LecturerLecturer
Philosophisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät
Departement Physik
Bereich Physik
Lecturer
Klingelbergstrasse 82
4056
Basel
Schweiz
Tel. +41 61 207 37 40
edwin.kolbe@clutterunibas.ch
Philosophisch-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
Publications
ALL PUBLICATIONS1.
Thielemann, F.-K., Mocelj, D., Panov, I., Kolbe, E., Rauscher, T., Kratz, K.-L., Farouqi, K., Pfeiffer, B., Martinez-Pinedo, G., Kelic, A., Langanke, K., Schmidt, K.-H. & Zinner, N. The r-process : supernovae and other sources of the heaviest elements. International journal of modern physics. E, Nuclear physics16, 1149-1163 (2007). edoc
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Panov, I. V., Kolbe, E., Pfeiffer, B., Rauscher, T., Kratz, K. L. & Thielemann, F. K. Calculations of fission rates for r-process nucleosynthesis. Nuclear physics. A, Nuclear and hadronic physics747, 633-654 (2005). edoc
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Thielemann, F. K., Argast, D., Brachwitz, F., Fisker, J. L., Frohlich, C., Hirschi, R., Kolbe, E., Mocelj, D. & Rauscher, T. Nuclear physics : a key ingredient in astrophysical modeling. Nuclear physics. A, Nuclear and hadronic physicsVol. 751 , S. 301C-326C, (2005). edoc