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- 1988-1998 Diploma, PhD and Postdoc (Habilitation) at Regensburg University (Germany)
- 1998-2004 Senior Research Fellow at Friedrich-Schiller University, Jena (Germany)
- since 2004 Lecturer, then Senior Lecturer at UoP
Roles:
- Programme Manager MSc Mathematics (2006-2008)
- Member of Maths and Stats Coordination Team (2014-22)
- Member of Maths and Stats Workload Allocation Team (2014-22)
- Exams Coordinator (2006-22)
Professional memberships
- German Physical Society
Roles on external bodies
- Member of User Forum, Central Laser Facility, STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL)
- Member of Vulcan 20 Petawatt Project (theory)
- Member of HIBEF user consortium (Helmholtz International Beamline for Extreme Fields)
- Member of BIREF@HIBEF experiment
- Member of planned LUXE experiment (DESY, Hamburg)
- Peer reviewer for many international Physics journals:
- Annalen der Physik
- Annals of Physics
- European Physical Journal C
- Europhysics Letters
- Few Body Systems
- High Power Laser Science and Engineering
- JHEP
- Journal of Physics A, B, G
- Journal of Plasma Physics
- Nature - Scientific Reports
- Nature Physics
- New Journal of Physics
- Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research A
- Optics Letters
- Physical Review A, D, E, X
- Physical Review Letters
- Physica Scripta
- Physics Letters A, B
- Referee for Research Councils and Funding Bodies:
- Austrian Foundation for the Promotion of Science
- Czech Science Foundation
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC)
- French National Research Agency (ANR)
- German Research Foundation (DFG)
- Humboldt Foundation, Germany
- Helmholtz Society, Germany
- National Research Foundation, South Africa
- The Royal Society, UK
Supervised research degrees
- 10 physics diploma students (co-supervision, Germany)
- 5 PhD students (co-supervision, Germany and France)
- 3 PhD students, UoP, 2010, 2013, 2019
Teaching interests
Undergraduate:
- Theoretical Physics
- Applied Mathematics for mathematicians, engineers and scientists
- Statistical Methods
Postgraduate:
- Quantum Field Theory
- Strong-Field Quantum Electrodynamics
- Statistics of Inequality (MSc)
Academic qualifications
Physical sciences, Other, Habilitation Thesis: Light-Cone Dynamics of Particles and Fields, University of Regensburg
Award Date: 31 Jul 1998
Physical sciences, Doctorate, Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking in Light-Cone Quantum Field Theory, University of Regensburg
Award Date: 13 Feb 1992
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Coherent enhancement of QED cross sections in electromagnetic backgrounds
Heinzl, T., King, B. & Liu, D., 14 Mar 2025, In: Physical Review D. 111, 5, 056018.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Towards a vacuum birefringence experiment at the Helmholtz International Beamline for Extreme Fields: Letter of Intent of the BIREF@HIBEF Collaboration
Edwards, J., Heinzl, T. & King, B., 12 Mar 2025, In: High Power Laser Science and Engineering. 13, p. e7 31 p., e7.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Letter of Intent: Towards a Vacuum Birefringence Experiment at the Helmholtz International Beamline for Extreme Fields
Ahmadiniaz, N., Bähtz, C., Benediktovitch, A., Bömer, C., Bocklage, L., Cowan, T. E., Edwards, J., Evans, S., Viñas, S. F., Gies, H., Göde, S., Görs, J., Grenzer, J., Acosta, U. H., Heinzl, T., Hilz, P., Hippler, W., Huang, L. G., Humphries, O. & Karbstein, F. & 32 others, , 28 May 2024.Research output: Working paper / Preprint › Preprint
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Technical Design Report for the LUXE experiment
LUXE Collaboration, 2 Oct 2024, In: European Physical Journal: Special Topics. 233, 10, p. 1709-1974 266 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review
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Strong field vacuum birefringence in plane wave pulses
King, B., Heinzl, T. & Blackburn, T., 26 Jul 2023.Research output: Working paper / Preprint › Preprint