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WALLMARK PRIZE

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences honors Prof. Christian Glaser

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Portrait photo of Christian Glaser: Prof. Glaser is wearing a light blue shirt and has his arms crossed. There are bushes in the background. © Beran Kosan
Prof. Christian Glaser has been a professor of experimental astroparticle physics at the Department of Physics at TU Dortmund University since August 2025.
In March, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded the 2026 Wallmark Prize to Prof. Christian Glaser of the Department of Physics at TU Dortmund. The prize, worth 435,000 Swedish kronor (equivalent to more than 40,000 euros) recognizes his internationally acclaimed research in the field of radio detection of ultra-high-energy neutrinos, particularly his significant contributions to the real-time analysis of data from in-ice detectors installed using machine learning.

Each year, the Academy awards the Wallmark Prize to scientists whose discoveries or inventions have significantly advanced science and industry. The prize is named after the Swedish physicist Lars Johan Wallmark and has been awarded since 1859 for achievements in the fields of mathematics, astronomy, applied mechanics, physics, chemistry, mineralogy, or engineering.

From Uppsala to Dortmund

Prof. Christian Glaser has been a Professor of Experimental Astroparticle Physics at the Department of Physics since August 2025. Prior to this, he spent several years at Uppsala University in Sweden, first as a junior professor on a tenure track (2020–2023) and subsequently as an associate professor (2023–2025). With his appointment at TU Dortmund University, he returned to Germany, where he had previously studied and earned his doctorate. After completing his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in physics at RWTH Aachen University, he earned his doctorate in astroparticle physics there in 2017. As a postdoc and DFG fellow, he conducted research at the University of California, Irvine, in the United States.

Glaser began the work that earned him the Wallmark Prize in Uppsala and is now continuing it at the Department of Physics at TU Dortmund University, the RAPP Center and at the Lamarr Institute for Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence. His research is funded by the European Research Council, among others. For his NuRadioOpt project, in which he aims to improve the performance of future neutrino detectors using artificial intelligence, he secured an ERC Starting Grant in 2024 worth approximately 1.7 million euros over five years.

Research on Neutrinos and Cosmic Rays

Glaser conducts research on high-energy cosmic neutrinos and cosmic rays. These are particles produced during extreme processes in the universe that provide new insights into distant astrophysical events. A key focus of his work is radio technology for measuring these particles in ice. His group also relies on artificial intelligence to filter signals from large amounts of data in real time, detect rare astrophysical events, and further improve the detectors. His research group is involved in major international projects such as the IceCube neutrino observatory at the South Pole, the RNO-G radio neutrino observatory in Greenland, the ARIANNA experiment in Antarctica, and the Pierre Auger cosmic ray observatory in Argentina.

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