Curriculum vitae

German version CV in German

Personal data

   
Name: Albert Hirtl
Place of birth: Klagenfurt (Carinthia, Austria)
E-Mail: albert dot hirtl at meduniwien dot ac dot at
   

Scientific career

   
since 02/2009 Postdoc at the Medical University of Vienna, Department of Nuclear Medicine
   
10/2010 Special radiation protection officer training for nuclear diagnostics and therapy
   
10/2010 Basic radiation protection officer training
   
06/2008 - 01/2009 Member of the FAIR (Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research) Joint-Core-Team at the Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung (GSI) in Darmstadt, Germany. Scientific coordinator of the project FLAIR (Facility for Low energy Antiproton and Ion Research).
   
03/2008 - 05/2008 Time out
   
03/2002 - 02/2008 Junior scientist at the Austrian Academy of Sciences at the Stefan-Meyer-Institute of Subatomic Physics, Boltzmanngasse 3, 1090 Wien, <http://www.oeaw.ac.at/smi>
   
12/2005 - 02/2008 Responsibility for the database-system AkademIS (Akademie Informationssystem) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (administration and compilation of the relvant data for the annual report and the assessment of the scientific performance of the institute)
   
02/2005 Organisation of the conference: International Conference on Exotic Atoms - Future Perspectives (EXA05), Wien
  Compilation and publication of the proceedings volume Proceedings of EXA05, Editor
   
12/2004 Organisation of the symposium: Cutting Edge Technologies for fundamental sciennces, life science and medical applications (CET04), Wien
   
11/2002 Organisation of the workshop: International Workshop on Exotic Atoms - Future Perspectives (EXA02), Wien
  Compilation and publication of the proceedings volume Proceedings of EXA02, Editor
   

University

   
03/2008 PhD in thechnical sciences at the TU Vienna with distinction
  Awarding of the academic degree Doktor der technischen Wissenschaften - Doctor technicae (Dr. techn.)
   
03/2002 - 03/2008 Work on the dissertation (PhD) with title: Determination of the Strong Interaction Ground State Width in Pionic Hydrogen (download in pdf or ps format)
  The experiments for the PhD thesis were performed in an international collaboration (webpage of the piH-collaboration) at the particle accelerator at the Paul-Scherrer-Institut (PSI), Villigen, Switzerland, <http://www.psi.ch>
   
11/2000 Awarding of the academic degree Diplom-Ingenieur (DI) - equivalent to Master of Science (DI)
   
11/1999 Grant of the faculty of physics of the TU Vienna
10/1993 - 10/2000 Study of Technical Physics at the Vienna University of Technology (TU Vienna / TU Wien) with spicialisation on atomic, nuclear and particle physics
  Diploma-work with title Untersuchungen zur Vortexstruktur des Quarkconfinements (in german)
   

School

   
06/1993 Bundesrealgymnasium für Slowenen / Zvezna realna gimnazija za Slovence, Klagenfurt / Celovec (equivalent to highschool with emphasis on natural sciences)
   

Other skills

   
Languages: German & Slovenian, native languages
  English, fluent
  Russian, advanced basic knowledge
   
EDP: Linux (setup and administration of Linux based computer systems and networks)
NFS and Samba-server
  MS Office, LaTeX
  Several programming languages (Bash-Script, C, FORTRAN, LabVIEW, MATLAB, Perl)
  R - Project for Statistical Computing
  GATE - Geant4 Application for Emission Tomography
   
Technical skills: Setup and operation of vacuum systems with turobomolecular- and cryo-pumps
  Operation of quadrupole-massspectrometers
  Operation of CCD-detectors
  Setup and operation of a Bragg-spectrometer
  Experience in cryogenics
   

Civil service

   
02/2001 - 02/2002 Medic at the Austrian Red Cross, Vienna
   

Other activities

   
since 06/2005 Medic (Notfallsanitäter)
since 03/2002 Volunteer at the Austrian Red Cross, Vienna
since 09/2000 Brevet Gold International (4*-diver)
Diving instructor assistant in the holidays during the time of study