Encyclopedia of Particle Physics

Since 2012, Christian S. Fischer has been Full Professor for Theoretical Hadron Physics at the Justus-Liebig University in Giessen, Germany. He was educated at the University of Tübingen, where he received his PhD in Theoretical Physics in 2003 and an MSc-degree in Philosophy in 2000. After postdoc positions at the University of Heidelberg, Germany and the Institute of Particle Physics Phenomenology (IPPP) in Durham, UK, he was awarded with a joint Helmholtz-University Young-Investigator-Grant at the Technical University of Darmstadt and the GSI Helmholtz Center for Heavy-Ion Research in 2007. His research includes various topics in Hadron Physics and Heavy-Ion Physics with connections to Astrophysics and Particle Physics. A particular focus are topics associated with experiments at the FAIR facility in Darmstadt: he is vice-director of the Helmholtz Research Academy Hesse for FAIR and spokesperson of the theory advisory group of the PANDA collaboration. Christian S. Fischer is Editor-in-Chief of the Review Journal 'Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics'. He has been Director of the 'International School for Nuclear Physics' since 2022, a yearly conference series hosted by the Ettore Majorana Foundation in Erice, Sicily. The School brings together international experts and young researchers in the fields of Nuclear Physics, Hadron Physics, Heavy-Ion Physics and Neutrino Physics since 1971. At his home university, Christian S. Fischer is very active in teaching Bachelor and Masters courses and he loves presenting science to the public in the Saturday morning lecture series 'Physik im Blick’.