CURRICULUM VITAE

 

Name: Univ.Prof.Dr. Ernst Wolfram KITTEL
Birthdate, place : June 12, 1940 in Jägerndorf (Krnov), Czech Republic

Citizenship : Austrian

Marital status : married to Dipl.Dolm. Susanne Kittel-Haböck (Artist)

                           2 children

                           3 grandchildren

Function : retired full professor of experimental physics (high energy), University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands

Home address : Schlossgasse 9 A-3422 Hadersfeld, Austria

tel.: ++43-2242-5244

e-Mail: wolfram.kittel@aon.at

 

Academic and professional career:
1960 Beginning studies of physics and mathematics at the University of Vienna

1966 Physicist at the “Inst. für Hochenergiephysik der Österreichischen Akademie der  Wissenschaften”, Vienna
1967 PhD (Dr. phil.) at the University of Vienna
1968 “Fellow” at CERN, Geneva
1969 Staff Member at CERN
1972 Indefinite contract at CERN
1973 Univ. Dozent (High Energy Physics) at the University of Vienna
1973 Full professor at the University of Nijmegen
1974 Removal from Geneva to Nijmegen

1978/1979 Guest year at the “Institut für Hochenergiephysik der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften”, Vienna
since 1978 Spokesman of the CERN experiment NA22 (Aachen- Berlin- Brussels- Krakow-Helsinki- Nijmegen- Rio de Janeiro- Serpukhov- Warsaw- Yerevan)
1980-2003 Member of the Curatorium of the “Institut für Hochenergiephysik der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften”, Vienna
1981-1983 Chairman of the Section of Physics of the University of Nijmegen
1987-1988/1989-1991 Chairman Research Committee of the Section of Physics of the Univ. of Nijmegen
1988 Member Evaluation Committee for Elementary Particle Physics of the Swedish Natural Science Research Council
1988/1989 Paid Associate at CERN (L3 experiment)
1990-2000 Chairman Dept. of Experimental High Energy Physics, Univ. of Nijmegen
1991-1993 Chairman Discipline of Physics, University of Nijmegen
1994-2003 Founding Chairman and Scientific Director High Energy Physics Institute Nijmegen (HEFIN, now extended to IMAPP)
2003 official Retirement

2005 publication of scientific book on "Soft Hadron Dynamics", together with Prof. E.A. De Wolf

2008 Promotion of last two Ph.D. students

since then occasional lectures and publications