Volker Burkert

Volker D. Burkert is a German physicist, academic and researcher. He is a Principal Staff Scientist at the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility at Jefferson Lab (JLab) in Newport News, Virginia (USA). He has made major contributions to the design of the CEBAF Large Acceptance Spectrometer (CLAS) that made it suitable for high luminosity operation in experiments studying spin-polarized electron scattering.

Beginning in 2002, Burkert developed the concept of a new large acceptance detector, CLAS12, tuned for the much higher rate capabilities that were needed to take full advantage of the doubling of the energy of the CEBAF machine to 12 GeV. CLAS12 has been in operation since 2018. Burkert's work contributed to JLab's flagship program investigating the three-dimensional structure of the proton.

Burkert is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, and the recipient of the 2019 Virginia Governor's Outstanding Scientist award. Provided by Wikipedia