Prof. Susanne Mertens
Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Susanne Mertens
Technical University of Munich
Associate Professorship of Dark Matter (Prof. Mertens)
Postal address
James-Franck-Str. 1
85748 Garching b. München
- Phone: +49 (89) 289 - 53601
- Room: 5101.01.013
- Homepage
- susanne.mertens@tum.de
Research
We study the elusive particle, the neutrino, to unlock fundamental mysteries of physics: What is our universe made of? How did structures evolve? Why is our world made of matter and not anti-matter? Despite major discoveries in the last decades, the neutrino is still one of the most mysterious particles of the standard model of particle physics: What is its mass? Is it its own antiparticle? Does there exist a right-handed partner to the known left-handed neutrino, a so called sterile neutrino? Exploring these properties will help us understand fundamental open questions about our universe.
