Title: Senior Scientist
Company: Los Alamos National Laboratory
Location: Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States
Dr. Rene Reifarth, Senior Scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory, has been recognized by Marquis Who’s Who Top Scientists for dedication, achievements, and leadership in physics.
Dr. Reifarth has had a distinguished career in physics, beginning at the Los Alamos National Laboratory as a physicist in 2002, a position in which he thrived until 2007. He subsequently returned to Germany and served as a professor at the Goethe-Universität Frankfurt a. Main between 2007 and 2023. He is currently back at Los Alamos National Laboratory as a senior scientist, where he is working on a new approach to measure reaction rates by determining how often neutrons react with isotopes in nuclei.
Attributing knowledge, curiosity, intelligence, persistence, and hard work as the factors to his success, Dr. Reifarth utilized these skills to garner a stellar education. He earned an SPS from Erfurt, Abitur, in 1992. In 1998, he obtained a master’s degree in physics from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), following with a PhD from the University of Tübingen, Germany, in 2002.
Dr. Reifarth’s most significant accomplishment was establishing a method for proton capture and inverse kinematics. He participates as a member of the American Physics Society, the European Physical Society (EPS), and the Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft e. V. (DPG). He is a board member for the German Physical Society, and has acted as the chair for the Nuclear Physics Division Board for two years. In 2021, he was recognized with a scholarship from the Los Alamos National Laboratory. Additionally, he received the European Research Council Award.
Motivated by the impossible, Dr. Reifarth is determined to prove that a new idea published in the last few years to study short-lived nuclei with half-lives of seconds that will advance the technology and revolutionize the field of neutron research. He prides himself on the ability to guide his students without pushing them and opening doors for them to go through on their own. His advice to be willing and open to learning what is required of the job and to developing what you have so far allows his students to find great success.
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