Apl.-Prof. Dr. Stefan Scherer

Short CV

1987-1990
Doctoral thesis, University of Mainz

1990-1992
Research Associate, NIKHEF, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

1992-1994
Research Associate, TRIUMF, Vancouver, Canada

1994-1996
DFG habilitation grant

1996-1999
Scientific employee

1999-2005
Lecturer (C2-Hochschuldozent)

2004
Extraordinary professor of physics (Apl. Prof.)

2005-2007
Academic councilor (Akademischer Rat)

since 2007
Senior academic councilor (Akademischer Oberrat)

Research interests

• chiral perturbation theory
• chiral effective field theories of unstable particles
• quantization and renormalization of effective field theories
• pion photo- and electroproduction
• real and virtual Compton scattering
• electromagnetic and weak form factors

Key publications

• How to define physical properties of unstable particles
  J Gegelia and S. Scherer
  Eur. Phys. J. A 44, 425 (2010)
• Infrared renormalization of two-loop integrals and the chiral expansion
  of the nucleon mass
  M.R. Schindler, D. Djukanovic, J. Gegelia, S. Scherer
  Nucl. Phys. A803, 68 (2008)
• Renormalization of relativistic baryon chiral perturbation theory and power counting
  T. Fuchs, J. Gegelia, G. Japaridze, S. Scherer
  Phys. Rev. D 68, 056005 (2003)
• Introduction to chiral perturbation theory
  S. Scherer
  Adv. Nucl. Phys. 27, 277 (2003)
• Extension of the chiral perturbation theory meson Lagrangian to order p(6)
  H.W. Fearing, S. Scherer
  Phys. Rev. D 53, 315 (1996)