Professor Dr. rer. nat. Claus Lämmerzahl

ZARM, University of Bremen
Am Fallturm
28359 Bremen
Germany

phone:
+49 421 218-57834

RESEARCH INTERESTS

General Relativity
Relativistic astrophysics: orbits of stars, accretion disks, shadow of Black Holes
Test theories for Special and General Relativity: Robertson-Mansouri-Sexl formalism, Standard Model Extension, parametrized post-Newton formalism, Finsler geometry, and others
Test of Special and General Relativity: Universality of Free Fall with MICROSCOPE, gravitational redshift with Galileo satellites, nonlinear electrodynamics, various proposals
Cold atoms in gravitational fields
Generalized electrodynamics: general constitutive laws, nonlinear electrodynamics
Quantum mechanics, in gravitational fields, Bose-Einstein condensates

Research Training Group Models of Gravity 2012 - 2021
Excellence Cluster Quantum Frontiers (QF) 2019 -
Excellence Cluster Quantum Engineering and Space Time Research (QUEST) 2007 - 2013
Collaborative Research Center Relativistic Geodesy and Gravimetry with Quantum Sensors (geo-Q) 2014 – 2018
Collaborative Research Center Designed Quantum States of Matter (DQmat) 2016 –
COST Action CA16104 Black holes, gravitational waves and fundamental physics GWverse)
COST Action CA18108 Quantum gravity phenomenology in the multi-messenger approach
COST Action CA15220 Quantum Technologies in Space
ICRANet International Center for Relativistic Astrophysics

Since 2018 Member of the National Committee (DFG) for COSPAR
Since 2014 Chair of Commission H of COSPAR
Since 2019 Member of the Executive Board of the Cluster of Excellence QuantumFrontiers
2014 – 2018 Member of the Board of Directors of the Collaborative Research Center geoQ

1989 - 1994 Postdoc at University of Konstanz
1994 - 1996 Postdoc at Université Paris 6 (Pierre et Marie Curie) and at Institute de Physiques des Laser, Université Paris 13
1996 - 2000 Postdoc at University Konstanz
2000 - 2003 Postdoc at the Institute for Experimental Physics of the Heinrich Heine-University Düsseldorf
2003 - 2008 Postdoc at ZARM, University Bremen
2008 - 2012 Head of the group "Fundamental Physics'' at ZARM, University of Bremen
2012 - 2016 Executive Director of ZARM, University of Bremen
2012 - Director "Space Sciences'' am ZARM

Summer term 2021

Winter term 2020/21

Space and Exploration Missions (Faculty 1, U Bremen)
Geodesy and Gravity (Master Space Science and Technology, Faculty 1, U Bremen)
Philosophy of time travel and space flight (faculty 1, U Bremen)
Higher Theoretical Physics / Höhere Theoretische Physik (Faculty 1, U Bremen): Relativistic quantum mechanics

Summer term 2020

Higher Theoretical Physics / Höhere Theoretische Physik (Faculty 1, U Bremen): Theory of distributions, Partial differential equations, relativistic fields, QED
Space and Research Mission (Faculty 4, U Bremen)
Accretion Disks (U Oldenburg)
Fascination Space (Faculty 1, U Bremen)

Winter term 2019/20

Summer term 2019

Winter term 2018/19

Space and Exploration Missions (Master Space Science and Technology, Faculty 1, U Bremen)
Hydrodynamics (Faculty 1, U Bremen)
Statistical Physics (U Oldenburg)
Geodesy and Gravity (Master Space Science and Technology, Faculty 1, U Bremen)

Summer term 2018

Winter term 2017/18

Statistische Physik (Faculty 1, U Bremen)
Klassische Mechanik für Lehramtsstudierende (Faculty 1, U Bremen)
Space and Exploration Missions (Master Space Science and Technology, Faculty 1, U Bremen)

Summer term 2017

Winter term 2016/17

Summer term 2016

Winter term 2015/16

Summer term 2015

Winter term 2014/15