Andreas Schiller grew up near Stuttgart in South-Western Germany,
where he studied Physics between 1989 and 1995 and obtained his
Diploma in Physics with nuclear physics as his specialty. After one
year of work at a nuclear reactor near Hamburg, Germany, he was
accepted into the Ph.D. program of Oslo University, Norway. After
obtaining his Ph.D. in 2000, he took up a three-year post-doctoral
position at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California
and afterwards a four-year position as Visiting Assistant Professor at
the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory of Michigan State
University. In 2007, he became an Assistant Professor at Ohio
University.
Andreas Schiller works in experimental low-energy nuclear physics. His main interest is the investigation of nuclear reactions and the structure of atomic nuclei at an energy scale which coincides with most practical applications (reactors, isotope production for medicine, industry and research, nuclear astrophysics). Most of this research is done either locally at the Edwards Accelerator Laboratory of Ohio University, or with several colleagues at a range of national and international laboratories (e.g. at Michigan State, Los Alamos (NM), Berkeley (CA), Oslo (Norway), Budapest (Hungary), etc.).
Schiller summarizes his teaching philosophy by quoting Einstein: ``The important thing is not to stop questioning''. His favorite quote outside of physics is from M. K. Gandhi: ``Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever''.
When Schiller is not at work, he takes care of his two children and the yard work at home.
