Research Profile

Andrzej Buras is regarded as one of the world’s leading scientists in the field of quantum field theory applied to particle physics. He conducts research in this field with the aim of constructing a theory of flavour (the different types of quarks and leptons). In this context, he investigates various extensions of the Standard Model of particle physics, with a focus on flavour-changing meson decays and CP violation. His work includes tests of the Standard Model and alternative proposals within supersymmetry, Little Higgs models, and models with extra spatial dimensions. His current research focuses on the so-called Standard Model Effective Theory.

He is one of the most cited particle theorists in Europe, with more than 230 scientific publications and over 60 conference contributions. Until 2008, he was regularly involved in the organization of workshops at DESY (German Electron Synchrotron) and at Ringberg Castle.

Even after his retirement, he continues his research at the TUM Institute for Advanced Study (IAS). He received an ERC Advanced Grant in 2011. For his work, Andrzej Buras has been honoured with numerous international awards, including the Max Planck Medal of the German Physical Society (2020) and the J. J. Sakurai Prize for Theoretical Particle Physics of the American Physical Society (2024).

 

Academic Career

until 1971	Study of physics, University of Warsaw; Masters Degree in Theoretical Physics
1972	Doctoral studies in high energy theoretical physics, Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen
1972–1975	Postdoctoral fellow, Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen
1975–1977	Fellow in the Theoretical Physics Group at CERN, Geneva
1977–1982	Visitor, associate scientist, staff member at Fermilab Theory Group (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory), USA
1982–1988	Scientific associate, Max Planck Institute of Physics, Munich
1988–2012	Professor of theoretical elementary particle physics, TUM
2008–2011	Carl von Linde senior fellowship, Institute for Advanced Study, TUM

 

Memberships and honors

• Member of the Program Advisory Committee (SPSC) at CERN (1985-1988)
• Member of the referee committee “Middle Energy” Federal German ministry of research and technology, Bonn (1989-1993)
• Member of the programming and organization committee, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, USA (1991-1995)
• Member of the editorial board, Physical Review D Journal, American Physical Society (1992-1995)
• Review board for elementary particle physics, German Research Foundation (DFG) (1996-2004)
• Member of the Physics Research Committee of German Electron Synchrotron (DESY) research centre (1998-2002)
• Member of the editorial board, Physical Review Letters magazine, American Physical Society (2002-2005)
• Member of the European Committee for Future Accelerators (ECFA), CERN, Geneva (1986-1992, 2002-2006)
• Member of the advisory committee (BELLE), KEK High Energy Accelerator Research Organization, Japan (2006-2010)
• Research group leader of the excellence cluster “Origin and Structure of the Universe”, TUM (2007-2011)
  Member of the Research Board of the Cluster (2006-2012)
• Leader of the focus group “Fundamental Physics”, TUM-IAS (Institute for Advanced Study) (2007-2011)

• Member of the advisory council, TUM-IAS (2008-2011)

   

Honorable memberships

• Ordinary Member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities (from 2010)
• International member of the Polish Academy of Punditry (PAUZA), Crakow (from 2011)
• International member of the Polish Academy of Science (PAN), Warsaw (from 2013)
• Member of the Warsaw Scientific Society, Warsaw (from 2021)

• Member of the Academia Europaea (from 2022)

   

Guest lecturer/professor

• Distinguished lecturer, University of Alberta (2004)

• Schrödinger guest professor, University of Vienna (2010) 

   

Membership of organizing committees

• Member of the Local Organizing Committee of the Rochester Conference in Munich (1988)
• Member of the organization committee of the Ringberg Workshop “Hadronic Matrix Elements and Weak Decays” (1988), “Advances in Non-Perturbative and Perturbative Techniques” (1994), “Heavy Flavors” (2003, 2006), “Flavors and Jets” (2009)
• Member of the local Organizing Committee of the Photon-Lepton Konferenz in Hamburg (1997)
• Chair of the organization committee of the DESY (German Electron Synchrotron) Workshop “Waiting for the Top Quark” (1990), “Discrete Symmetries” (1996), “CP Violation” (2000)

• Co-organizer of the workshop “Indirect searches for New Physics at the time of the LHC”, Galileo Galilei Institute for Theoretical Physics (GGI) (2010)

   

Awards

• Polish-German Marian Smoluchowski-Emil Warburg Physics Prize, collaborative award from the German and Polish Physics Societies (2007)
• Carl von Linde Senior Fellowship at the TUM Institute for Advanced Study, TU Munich (2008)
• European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grant (2011-2016)
• TUM Emeritus of Excellence, TU Munich (2012)
• Max-Planck-Medal of the German Physical Society (2020)
• J. J. Sakurai Prize for Theoretical Particle Physics, American Physical Society (2024)
   

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