HGB's C.V.

work address:

home address:

Hans-Gerd Berns
University of Washington
B208 Physics-Astronomy Bldg.
Box 351560
Seattle, WA 98195-1560 (USA)

phone: (206) 685-4725, fax: (206) 685-9242
mobile: (206) 713-5919

berns@phys.washington.edu

Hans-Gerd Berns
16549 21st Ave NE
Shoreline, WA 98155 (USA)

phone: (206) 365-3960

Personal History

19 May 1961	Born in Kranenburg (Niederrhein) / Germany
June 1981	High School Diploma (Abitur) at the Konrad Adenauer Gymnasium, Kleve-Kellen / Germany
Oct. 1981 - Dec. 1982	Military Service (Bundeswehr), 15-month draft at the Wachbataillon des BMVG, Bergisch-Gladbach / Germany
Jan. - Sep. 1983	Engineering Intern at the Karl-Kisters-Maschinenbau GmbH, Kleve / Germany
Oct. 1983 - Oct. 1989	Engineering Student at the Fachbereich Elektrotechnik (Dept. of Electrical Engineering) of the Universität-GH (Gerhard-Mercator-Universität) Duisburg / Germany; finished October 1989 with the Diplom-Ingenieur (~ MSEE) degree, thesis title "Zeitdiskrete Regelsysteme mit zwei Tastzeiten"
Jan. - Aug. 1990	Electrical Engineer position at the R&D and Quality Control Dept. of Mannesmann-Rexroth GmbH (now Bosch-Rexroth), Lohr am Main / Germany
Oct. 1990 - June 1993	Graduate Student at the Dept. of Electrical Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, WA / USA; finished June 1993 with the Master of Science degree, thesis title "Electro-Acoustical Subsystems in DUMAND"
June 1993 - May 1994	Research Engineer (professional staff) position at the Dept. of Physics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA / USA
May 1994 - June 2003	Research Technologist/Engineer (classified staff) at the Dept. of Physics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA / USA
July 2003 - current	Research Engineer/Scientist (changed to professional staff) at the Dept. of Physics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA / USA

Professional Experience

Jan. - Sep. 1983	Engineering Internship at Karl-Kisters-Maschinenbau GmbH, Kleve / Germany (contact: Dipl.-Ing. H. Meisters, phone: +49 2821 5030): practical training at a variety of engineering tools and materials assembling and installation electronics boards and racks for industrial packaging machines testing, diagnostics and repair of electronics boards and devices
Dec. 1983 - Sep. 1988	Service Technician, 5 - 10 hours per weekend at Radio Röpling, Duisburg / Germany {contact: R. Röpling, phone: +49 203 351-688}: repair and servicing of radio, audio stereo products, TV and VCR sets customer service
Mar. 1986 - Dec. 1989	Student / Research Assistant, 6 - 20 hours per week with the Meß-, Steuer- und Regelungstechnik (Measurement and Control Engineering) group at the Fachbereich Maschinenbau (Dept. of Mechanical Engineering), Universität-GH Duisburg / Germany {contact: Prof. Dr.-Ing. H. Schwarz, phone +49 203 379-3429}: supervising ME grad. and undergrad. students at Fortran programming beginner classes preparing and supervising ME student laboratory classes adapting computer and control hardware to hydro-mechanical lab installations designing software tools under MS-DOS, CP/M, HP-1000-OS in Fortran, Assembler, Step-5 (Siemens), Pascal, and Basic designing, assembling, installation and testing of additional safety electronics modules for a hydraulic installation, in part with CAD tools (Auto-CAD) independent contract engineering assignments in collaboration with Mannesmann-Rexroth GmbH, Lohr / Germany and Bosch GmbH, Munich / Germany
Jan. - Aug. 1990	Electrical Engineer at Mannesmann-Rexroth GmbH, Lohr / Germany {contact: Dr.-Ing. H. Lausch, phone: +49 9352 18-0}: developing and testing of interfaces and electronic hardware for computer-controlled hydraulic production machines designing of installations for quality and safety experiments with in-house developed and built 68xxx computer devices
Aug. 1991 - June 1993	Research Assistant with the Particle Astrophysics Group at the Dept. of Physics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA / USA {contact: Prof. R.J. Wilkes, phone: 206-543-4232 or Prof. K. Young, phone: 206-543-4186}: design and development of electronic modules (analog, digital, in part with state-of-the-art DSP technology) for several Particle Astrophysics projects, using CAD tools (such as ORCAD, TANGO, and AutoSketch) and the production facilities of the Physics Dept. responsible for the "Acoustical Positioning System" of the DUMAND project (Hawaii) participation at several engineering and deployment operations with DUMAND collaboreuters
June 1993 - current	Research Engineer/Technologist at the Physics Dept., University of Washington, Seattle / USA {same contacts as with the Research Assistant position above}: responsible for all engineering assignments of the Particle Astrophysics group, including design and development of state-of-the-art electronic modules, purchasing and evaluation of industrial DAQ and lab equipment supervising students and technical assistants with electronics and CAD assignments participation as chief engineer for the Seattle group at collaborative Neutrino and Cosmic Ray observatory projects DUMAND (Keahole / Hawaii, until 1995), BES (Bejing / China, 1994) Super-Kamiokande (Kamioka / Japan, 1995-current) K2K (KEK, Tsukuba / Japan, 1998-current) WALTA (2000-current) responsible for the Super-Kamiokande Radon-Free Air Supply (contracted by the UCI Super-K group), the Super-Kamiokande Outer Detector Data Acquisition electronics, online software, and Super-K GPS subsystem. web master of the Super-Kamiokande US Collaboration Website participation at the long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiment K2K (KEK E362) (1998-current): designing and building the GPS Time Synchronization System for K2K member of the engineering team designing and building a low-cost QuarkNet Data Acquisition (DAQ) board in collaboration with QuarkNet (Fermilab), CROP (University of Nebraska), and WALTA.

Scholarships

Mar. 1986 - Dec. 1989	R&D engineering assignment contracts (Werkverträge) with Mannesmann-Rexroth GmbH and Prof. H. Schwarz, Universität-GH Duisburg; (total value of approx. DM 8000)
Oct. 1990 - June 1991	Tuition waiver for 3 quarters of graduate study at the University of Washington, Seattle, supported through a student exchange program between the EE departments of the Universität-GH Duisburg (Prof. P.M.Frank) and the University of Washington (Prof. R.N.Clark and Prof. E.Noges); (total value of approx. US$ 8500)

Publications

H. G. Berns, "Electro-Acoustical Subsystems in DUMAND,"
MSEE thesis, University of Washington, EE Dept., June 1993.
DUMAND Collaboration (co-author), "Acoustical Locating System for DUMAND-II",
DUMAND-10-93, UWSEA-PUB-93-07, June 1993.
H. G. Berns & R. J. Wilkes, "GPS Time Synchronization System for K2K,"
(presented at 11th IEEE NPSS Real-Time Conference, 14-18 June 1999, Santa Fe, NM) IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci., vol. 47, no. 2, pp. 340-343., April 2000.
WALTA group (co author), "The Washington large area time coincidence array," Proc. 28th ICRC (Tsukuba), 2003.
Super-Kamiokande Collaboration (co-authored), "The Super-Kamiokande Detector,"
Nucl. Instrum. Meth., A501, pp. 418-462, 2003.
S. Hansen, et al. (co-author), "Low-Cost Data Acquisition Card for School-Network Cosmic Ray Detectors,"
(presented at IEEE NSS-MIC 2003 conference, Oct. 2003, Portland, OR), IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci., vol. 51, no. 3, June 2004.
H. G. Berns, T. H. Burnett, R. Gran, R. J. Wilkes, "GPS Time Synchronization in School-Network Cosmic Ray Detectors",
(presented at IEEE NSS-MIC 2003 conference, Oct. 2003, Portland, OR), IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci., vol. 51, no. 3, June 2004.

last edited 5/6/2004