Ikaros Bigi

Ikaros Bigi
Born (1947-08-27) August 27, 1947
Munich, Germany
Residence Germany
Nationality Germany
Fields Physicist
Institutions Rockefeller University
Nagoya University
University of Notre Dame
Alma mater University of Munich
Known for CP violation
B meson decays
Notable awards Mercator Visiting Professorship (2002)
Sakurai Prize (2004)

Ikaros Bigi (born August 27, 1947) is a German theoretical physicist. His research focuses on refining the Standard Model phenomenology.[1][2]

Biography

Bigi graduated from Gymnasium Fridericianum, Erlangen, in 1967. Six years later he received a Master from the Max-Planck-Institute for Physics, University of Munich, where he stayed until 1977 to finish his PhD in Theoretical Physics. Since 1984 he is also a holder of Habilitation degree in Physics, acquired from RWTH Aachen University.

During his career, Bigi has been a research associate in many research teams in laboratories for Physics around the world. To summarize, some of them were SLAC (1973-1974), the Max Planck Institute for Physics in Munich (1975-1981), CERN (1978-1980), the Fermilab (1984). He has also been a visiting professor to Universities over the U.S. and Europe, with duties currently being performed for the University of Notre Dame, Indiana.

Bigi is an enthusiastic writer and reviewer with plenty of contributions to scientific journals; he is a member of International Committees and organisations for Physics, taking active part in seminars and conferences held worldwide.

Bigi is married and has three children.

Awards

Along with Anthony Ichiro Sanda, he was awarded the 2004 Sakurai Prize for his work on CP violation and B meson decays.[3]

References

  1. Krewald, Siegfried; Machner, Hartmut (March 2008). "Symmetries and hadron dynamics go on the MENU". CERN Courier 48 (2): 30–31.
  2. Harrison, Paul (October 2014). "CP violation: past, present and future". CERN Courier.
  3. APS Physics, 2004 J. J. Sakurai Prize for Theoretical Particle Physics Recipient

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