Curriculum Vitae

                                                                    Volker Metag

29.07.1942                        Born in Berlin, Germany

1961                                  Abitur at Lilienthal-Schule Berlin-Lichterfelde

1961 -1968                        Study of Physics at Technische Universität Berlin

1968                                  Diploma (Dipl. Ing) in Physics, TU Berlin

                                          Diploma Thesis: Modifizierung des Hanle-Effekts im elektrischen  

                                          Feld und Bestimmung von Termbeimischungen zum 

                                          3d10 4p 2P3/2-Term im Cu I -Spektrum , Thesis adviser: Prof. Dr. H. Bucka  

1970                                  Dr. rer. nat., University of Heidelberg,

                                          Thesis work at Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik, Heidelberg: 

                                          Untersuchung der isomeren Kernspaltung induziert durch 

                                          4He- und 3He Teilchen, Thesis adviser: Prof. Dr. P. von Brentano

1970 – 1971                      Postdoc at MPI für Kernphysik, Heidelberg

1971 – 1973                      Postdoc at Niels-Bohr Institute, Copenhagen, Denmark

1973 -  1975                      Postdoc at MPI für Kernphysik, Heidelberg

1975                                  Habilitation at University of Heidelberg:

                                          Thesis: Systematik der Halbwertszeiten spaltisomerer Zustände

1975 – 1978                      Staff scientist at MPI für Kernphysik, Heidelberg

1978 – 1980                      Senior research associate at Institute for Nuclear Physics,

                                          University of Washington, Seattle, USA 

1980 – 1982                      Staff scientist at MPI für Kernphysik, Heidelberg

1982 – 2012                      Full professor at University of Gießen

1982 - 1992                       Geschäftsführender Direktor II. Physikalisches Institut, Univ. Gießen

1985 – 1986                      Dean of Faculty of Physics, University of Giessen

1987   -                              Member (chairman) of the TAPS, CBELSA/TAPS collaboration

1987 -  2010                      Member of the A2 collaboration at MAMI (Mainz)

1988                                  Offer as full professor University of Washington, Seattle, declined

1992   -                              Member of the HADES collaboration

1992                                  Offer as full professor at University of Mainz combined with leading Scientist 

                                          at Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung (GSI), declined

1993 – 1998                      Research director of GSI, Darmstadt

1999 – 2012                      Geschäftsführender Direktor II. Physikalisches Institut, Univ. Gießen

1999 – 2008                      Member of steering committee of European Graduate School: 

                                          Complex systems of hadrons and nuclei, 

                                          (Copenhagen, Gießen, Helsinki, Torino)                                            

2003 -                                Member, PANDA collaboration

2004 - 2016                       Member (steering committee) of collaborative research center:  

                                          SFB/TR16 Subnuclear structure of matter, electromagnetic  

                                          excitations of subnuclear systems, (Univ. Bonn, Bochum, Giessen) 

2006 – 2009                      Dean of Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Geography, 

                                          University of Giessen

2008 – 2012                      Member of steering committee of Helmholtz International Center for FAIR

                                          LOEWE Zentrum HIC-for-FAIR (Darmstadt, Frankfurt, Gießen, GSI)

2012 -                                Member of the etaprime collaboration

2012                                  Professor Emeritus

 Professional Committees

1983 - 1985                     Member (Chairman), Program Advisory Committee at GSI, Darmstadt

1983 - 1986                     Member, Nuclear structure facility program panel, Daresbury, 

1986 - 1987                     Member, Program Advisory Committee on nuclear physics, Institute 

                                         Laue-Langevin, Grenoble, France

1988 – 1992                    Member (deputy Chairman) Scientific Council GSI, 

1988 - 1992                     Chairman of GSI Forschungsausschuß

1993 – 1995                    Member, Program Advisory Committee at COSY, Jülich

1997 - 1999                     Member, Scientific Council, Deutsches Elektronen Synchrotron, Hamburg  

1998 - 2001                     Member Fachbeirat Max-Planck Institut für Kernphysik, Heidelberg

1999 - 2002                     Member, Scientific Council, KVI Groningen

2000 - 2005                     Member, Scientific Council; GSI Darmstadt 

2000 – 2006                    Chairman BMBF-Gutachterausschuss “Hadronen und Kerne“

2000 – 2006                    Member, Program Advisory Committee at COSY, Jülich

2010 - 2015                     Chairman of Scientific Council of Helmholtz Institute Mainz

Chairman of major Conferences

2000                                Co-chair International Conference on Nucleus-Nucleus Collisions,    

                                        Strasbourg, France

 Editorial activities

1999 - 2018                     Editor, Physics Letters B

 Awards

1978                               Gustav-Hertz-Preis der Deutschen Physikalischen Gesellschaft together with D. Habs

Publications

1968 – 2023                   more than 500 publications in refereed journals

                                       See list of selected papers or look up Research Gate

Teaching

1982 – 2012                   repeatedly all obligatory physics courses: Experimental Physics I,II,III;

                                       Nuclear and Particle Physics, graduate course on Hadron Physics

Diploma and Doctoral Students

1982 – 2012                   close to 80, 3 Habilitations