For now I just want to say that I am Baldo, a PhD-Student at the "Institut für Kernphysik" at the University of Münster. My thesis will be about measurements at the PHENIX-Experiment which is located at the Brookhaven National Laboratory, on Long Island.
In times I do not think about physics, I do some other things. Yeah,
really, physicists DO other stuff! They don't walk or sit around 24
hours a day, murmuring strange formulas, creating incomprehensible
apparatuses or hacking strange things into computers. Well, may be
some do...
The one "official" stuff I am involved: I am a member of the "students parliament" of my university, this thing (I like calling things "thing") is part of the students representation in the German state I live in.
Oh, you want to know how I look like? Well, go to the PHENIX-webpage and have a look. I am a little annoyed of putting my face everywhere in the internet.
And now let's look at the things I have done in my life:
I was born as the child of two teachers in Münster, the major
city in the "Münsterland", one of the major regions in the state
of "Northrhine-Westphalia". I assume the day of my birth, July 7 1977,
was a sunny day, but I don't remember anything about that. One year
later my parents and I moved to Rheine, a 70.000 inhabitant city about
40 km north of Münster. There I grew up and went to school.
During the 19 years I lived in Rheine, I had different hobbies. At
school, I did some extra sports as hockey (in elementary school,
actually I just remember having scored one goal in a match against
another school team) and rowing (one summer, at high school). I also
tried to play tennis, but most of all, I played volleyball. Here I
even became a trainer for a junior team. Were we succesful? Partly,
yes, I (and my team, of course!) won several championships in our
county, as player as well as as trainer.
After I finished my civil services at the Red Cross in Rheine in 1997,
I moved (back) to Münster to study physics. During my studies I
started to do political work at the university, I worked in my
"Fachschaft", later I was elected into the students parliament and the
"AStA". This cost me some time but I do not regret doing that, I
learnt a lot there; and so I finished my diploma in 2004.