1998         Ph.D. TU Darmstadt
1999-2001   Postdoctoral Fellow, Physics Division, Argonne National Laboratory
2001-2002   Fermi Fellow, Physics Division, Argonne National Laboratory
2002-2003 Guest Scientist, GSI Darmstadt
2003-       Assistant Professor, Physics Department, Yale University

Research Interests

A. Heinz has a wide range of research interests, focused mainly on the production and the properties of heavy nuclei. He has worked on the fission properties of radioactive nuclei and studied the influence of a strong ground-state shell effects on the survival probability of fissile compound nuclei. He worked on the determination of fission barrier of exotic nuclei using different experimental approaches. He participated in experiments using gamma spectroscopy to study the structure of No (Z=102) isotope using the Gammasphere array and the Fragment Mass Analyzer (FMA). Using the FMA alone he worked on a program to search for super-heavy elements at Argonne and performed first experiments on the alpha-decay properties of 257-Rf (Z=104). He is interested in the description of the level density of highly excited compound nuclei, nuclear dissipation and the statistical model. He also worked the production of exotic nuclei using relativistic projectile fragmentation, nuclear astrophysics questions, proton emitting nuclei, superdeformation, mass measurements of unstable nuclei using a penning trap and used accelerator mass spectrometry measurements to answer questions of geophysical and oceanographic interest. He did experiments at GSI, GANIL, ANL and LBNL using mostly different kinds of recoil separators and various experimental setups of gamma and particle detectors.





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