Andrzej Buras honored with membership of the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences

Andrzej Buras, professor of theoretical elementary particle physics at the Technische Universität München (TUM) and founding member of the Excellence Cluster Universe has been elected a foreign member of the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences in Cracow/Poland.

Educated both in Poland and Denmark, Buras belongs to the world’s leading researchers in the field of applied quantum field theory, dedicating himself to Flavor Physics in particular. He is elected to the Academy on the basis of his studies regarding Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD), a theory of the strong interaction, and his extensive studies of the physics beyond the Standard Model.

The Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences was founded in 1872. Its scientific work is focused mainly on commission and sub-commission work. There are more than twenty subject commissions in different classes and all of them publish their own papers, periodicals or other publication series according to their respective subjects.

All international members of the Academy maintain active contact with the Polish science community. Besides Andrzej Buras, other foreign members who are theoretical particle physicists include James Bjorken and the Nobel Prize winners Martinus Veltman and Frank Wilczek.

“The Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences has a great reputation among Polish academics. Therefore, it has been a great honor for me to become a member” Buras said. For his research work, he was also honored with a Carl von Linde Senior Fellowship of the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) in 2007 and with the membership of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities in 2010. Only recently he received a grant of the European Research Council, which will support his work over the next five years with a funding of 1.6 million Euros.