Markus Klute, Ph.D.

Prof of Physics, MIT; and Humboldt Prof of Physics, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany

Markus Klute joined MIT in 2009, and in 2020 he was also awarded the prestigious Humboldt Professor of Physics at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (Germany). Professor Klute’s research in particle physics represents the energy frontier in the design, construction and commissioning of particle detectors, and also in the analysis of the data collected. In 2012 his group played a central role in the discovery of the Higgs boson using the CMS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider. The discovery of the Higgs boson will help to determine the origin of mass in matter as well as various symmetry mechanisms. Dr. Klute is also involved in the LHC search for physics beyond the Standard Model. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, a reviewer for the National Science Foundation and a member of the scientific advisory board of the PRISMA+ cluster of excellence in Mainz.