Peter Schweitzer

Associate Department Head for Undergraduate Affairs and Professor

Physics

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CV

Research Interests

Research in theoretical particle physics with focus on theory and phenomenology of strong interactions, and the understanding how the QCD quark & gluon degrees of freedom make up hadrons. The research interests include the following topics:

• theoretical nuclear and particle physics
• theory and phenomenology of strong interactions
• QCD and spontaneous breaking of the chiral symmetry
• quark-gluon structure of hadrons in high energy processes
• bound states in strongly interacting systems and hadrocharmonia
• non-perturbative calculations in effective chiral field theories and models
• spin and azimuthal asymmetries in high energy collisions involving hadrons
• transverse parton momentum dependent distribution and fragmentation functions
• form factors, parton distributions, generalized parton distributions, quasi distributions

Experience

• 2008-present:  Professor, Department of Physics, UConn
• 2003-2008: Postdoc, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany
• 2001-2003: Postdoc, Universita degli Studi di Pavia, Italy

Education

• Habilitation, Nuclear Theory, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany 2009
• Ph.D. (Dr.rer.nat.), Physics, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany 2001
• M.Sc. (Diplom), Physics, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany 1997

Professional Societies

• Member, American Physical Society