Apl.-Prof. Dr. Stefan Scherer

Professional and Scientifc Career

1990:	PhD, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU)
1990-1992:	Postdoc at NIKHEF-K, Amsterdam
1992-1994:	Research Associate, TRIUMF, Vancouver
1994-1996:	Habilitation Grant of German Research Foundation (DFG), JGU
1996:	Habilitation, JGU
1996-1999:	Scientific Employee, JGU
1999-2005:	Lecturer (C2-Hochschuldozent), JGU Mainz
since 2004:	Extraordinary Professor of Physics (Apl. Professor), JGU
2005-2007:	Academic Councillor (Akademischer Rat), JGU
2007-2011:	Senior Academic Councillor (Akademischer Oberrat), JGU
since 2011:	Academic Director (Akademischer Direktor), JGU
since 2011:	Member of the Gutenberg Teaching Council (GTC), JGU

Awards and Grants

1984-1985:	Stipend of German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), University of Washington, Seattle
1994-1996:	Habilitation Grant of German Research Foundation (DFG)
1995-1998:	NATO Collaborative Research Grant
2003:	Lehrpreis JGU
2007:	Lehrpreis des Landes Rheinland-Pfalz
2012:	Lehrpreis des Landes Rheinland-Pfalz

Main Research Interests

• chiral perturbation theory
• chiral effective field theories of unstable particles
• quantization and renormalization of effective field theories
• pion photo- and electroproduction
• real and virtual Compton scattering
• electromagnetic and weak form factors

Current Students

• Torsten Bauer
• Sandro Gorini
• Patricia Bickert

Former PhD Students

• Dr. Germar Knöchlein
  Virtual Compton Scattering off the Nucleon and Chiral Perturbation Theory
  Das Buch wurde im Shaker Verlag veröffentlicht (ISBN 3-8265-2956-1).
  Full list of publications from SPIRES.
• Dr. Christine Unkmeir
  Pion polarizabilities from inelastic pion-electron scattering and radiative pion photoproduction on the proton (2000)
  Full list of publications from SPIRES.
• Dr. Thomas Ebertshäuser
  Mesonic chiral perturbation theory - odd intrinsic parity sector (2002)
  Full list of publications from SPIRES.
• Dr. Thomas Fuchs
  Formfaktoren des Nukleons in relativistischer chiraler Störungstheorie  (2003)
  Full list of publications from SPIRES.
• Dr. Matthias Schindler
  Higher-order calculations in manifestly Lorentz-invariant baryon chiral perturbation theory (2007)
  Full list of publications from SPIRES.
• Dr. Björn Lehnhart
  Elektromagnetische Pionproduktion in manifest Lorentz-invarianter baryonischer chiraler Störungstheorie (2007)
  Full list of publications from SPIRES.
• Dr. Dalibor Djukanovic
  Virtual Compton scattering in baryon chiral perturbation theory (2008)
  Full list of publications from SPIRES.
• Dr. Christian Hacker
  Chirale Störungsrechnung im Sektor ungerader innerer Parität bis zur chiralen Ordnung O(q 6) (2008)
  Full list of publications from SPIRES.
• Dr. Marius Hilt
  Photo- und Elektropionproduktion in chiraler effektiver Feldtheorie (2011)

Teaching

• SS 2012
  Symmetrien in der Physik (C-SV1/2)
• WS 2011/2012
  Theoretische Physik 2, (MEd)
• SS 2011
  Theoretische Physik 1 (BEd);
  Chiral Dynamics 2
  Klausurergebnisse 
• WS 2010/2011
  Chiral Dynamics 
• WS 2009/2010 und SS 2010
  Gruppentheorie in der Physik I und II
• WS 2008/2009 und SS 2009
  Theoretische Physik für Lehramtskandidaten I und II
• WS 2007/2008 und SS 2008
  Chiral Dynamics I und II
• WS 2006/2007 und SS 2007
  Gruppentheorie in der Physik I und II
• WS 2005/2006 und SS 2006
  Effektive Feldtheorie I und II
• WS 2004/2005 und SS 2005
  Gruppentheorie in der Physik I und II
• WS 2003/2004 und SS 2004
  Chiral Dynamics I und II
• WS 2002/2003 und SS 2003
  Gruppentheorie in der Physik I und II
• SS 2002
  Introduction to Chiral Dynamics
• WS 2000/2001 und SS 2001
  Gruppentheorie in der Physik I und II
• WS 1999/2000
  Einführung in die chirale Störungstheorie
• SS 1999
  Gruppentheorie in der Physik
• SS 1998
  Gruppentheorie in der Teilchenphysik  
• WS 1996/1997 und SS 1997
  Chirale Störungstheorie für Mesonen, Chirale Störungstheorie für Baryonen

Selected Publications

• Path integral quantization for massive vector bosons
  D. Djukanovic, J. Gegelia, S. Scherer
  e-Print: arXiv:1001.1077 [hep-th]  
• Infrared renormalization of two-loop integrals and the chiral expansion of the nucleon mass
  M.R. Schindler, D. Djukanovic , J. Gegelia, S. Scherer
  Published in Nucl.Phys.A803:68-114,2008
  e-Print: arXiv:0707.4296 [hep-ph]
• Including the Delta(1232) resonance in baryon chiral perturbation theory
  C. Hacker, N. Wies, J. Gegelia, S. Scherer
  Published in Phys.Rev.C72:055203,2005
  e-Print: hep-ph/0505043
• Renormalization of relativistic baryon chiral perturbation theory and power counting
  T. Fuchs, J. Gegelia, G. Japaridze, S. Scherer
  Published in Phys.Rev.D68:056005,2003
  e-Print: hep-ph/0302117
• Introduction to chiral perturbation theory
  S. Scherer
  To be edited by J.W. Negele and E. Vogt
  Published in Adv.Nucl.Phys.27:277,2003
  e-Print: hep-ph/0210398
• Field transformations and simple models illustrating the impossibility of measuring off-shell effects
  H.W. Fearing, S. Scherer
  Published in Phys.Rev.C62:034003,2000 
  e-Print: nucl-th/9909076
• Generalized polarizabilities and the spin averaged amplitude in virtual Compton scattering off the nucleon
  D. Drechsel, G. Knochlein, A. Metz, S. Scherer
  Published in Phys.Rev.C55:424-430,1997
  e-Print: nucl-th/9608061
• Virtual Compton scattering off the nucleon at low-energies
  S. Scherer, A.Yu. Korchin, J.H. Koch
  Published in Phys.Rev.C54:904-919,1996
  e-Print: nucl-th/9605030
• Extension of the chiral perturbation theory meson Lagrangian to order p(6)
  H.W. Fearing, S. Scherer
  Published in Phys.Rev.D53:315-348,1996
  e-Print: hep-ph/9408346
• Pion electroproduction at threshold and PCAC
  S. Scherer, J.H. Koch
  Published in Nucl.Phys.A534:461-477,1991
  Journal Server [doi:10.1016/0375-9474(91)90456-G]

complete list of publications