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Kai Hencken, born in Hamburg in 1965, received his diploma in physics from the University of Basel in 1990 and completed his Ph.D. in theoretical physics at the same institution in 1994. His doctoral thesis focused on "Electromagnetic Production of Electron-Positron Pairs in Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions." He then worked as a post-doctoral research associate at the Institute for Nuclear Theory at the University of Washington, Seattle, from 1995 to 1997. After returning to the University of Basel, he received the Venia Docendi in 2000 and has since focused on electromagnetic diffractive processes in high-energy nuclear collisions. In 2005, he joined the Corporate Research Center of ABB in Baden-Dättwil, where he currently holds the position of senior principal scientist in the theoretical physics group, specializing in physical statistical modeling. Hencken has made significant contributions to the field, notably in areas involving ultraperipheral heavy ion collisions at RHIC and LHC, as well as Coulomb excitation nuclear reactions. He has published over 70 journal articles and has contributed to numerous review articles and proposals for experiments at CERN and GSI, holding more than 15 patents.
University of Basel • Basel, Switzerland
Lecturer in the Department of Physics, focusing on theoretical physics.
ABB Corporate Research Center • Baden-Dättwil, Switzerland
Senior principal scientist in the theoretical physics group specializing in physical statistical modeling.
The University of Basel generally requires C1 level proficiency in the language of instruction. For most English-taught Masters, TOEFL (min 92-95) or IELTS (min 7.0) is the standard.