Professor for Science and Peace Research, University of Hamburg (Germany)
Director, Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker Center for Science and Peace Research

Education: Ph.D., Darmstadt University of Technology (Nuclear Physics)

Areas of Expertise

Scientific-technical based innovations to nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation towards a nuclear weapons-free world; verification of arms control treaties; concepts for international control of nuclear weapons-usable materials (plutonium, highly enriched uranium, tritium); and anthropogenic sources of atmospheric radioactivity and their transport through the atmosphere.

Biography

Martin B. Kalinowski holds a PhD in nuclear physics dealing with international tritium control. He was a scientific assistant for a decade in the Interdisciplinary Research Group on Science, Technology, and Security (IANUS) at Darmstadt University of Technology, Darmstadt, Germany. He co-founded the International Network of Scientists and Engineers Against Proliferation (INESAP) and acted as the Scientific Coordinator of this non-governmental organization from 1994 to 1997. In October 1998, Kalinowski joined the International Data Center of the Provisional Technical Secretariat of the Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO), Vienna, Austria. In spring 2005, he was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Nuclear, Plasma, and Radiological Engineering at the University of Illinois.

Beginning in spring 2006, Kalinowski will be a professor for science and peace research at the University of Hamburg, Germany. He will be the founding director of the Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker Center for Science and Peace Research. His current research deals with atmospheric radioactivity monitoring and analysis as a means to detect clandestine nuclear testing.

Selected Publications

Books or Edited Collections:

Martin B. Kalinowski, International Control of Tritium for Nuclear Nonproliferation and Disarmament. Science and Global Security Monograph Series Vol. 4 (edited by Harold A. Feiveson) with a foreword by Frank v. Hippel, CRC Press: London 2004.

Articles or Book Chapters:

Winger, K., Feichter, F., Kalinowski, M.B., Sartorius, H., Schlosser, C. A new compilation of the atmospheric krypton-85 inventories from 1945 to 2000 and its evaluation in a global transport model. Journal of Environmental Radioactivity 80/2 (2005) 183-215.

Scheffran, J., Liebert, W., Kalinowski, M.B. Beyond the NPT. The transformation of the nuclear control regime into a nuclear-weapon-free world. INESAP Information Bulletin No. 25, Darmstadt April 2005, 4-9.

Kalinowski, M.B., Erickson, L., Gugle, G. Preparation of a Global Radioxenon Emission Inventory: Understanding Sources of Radioactive Xenon Routinely Found in the Atmosphere by the International Monitoring System for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty. ACDIS Research Report Series, University of Illinois, December 2005.

Kalinowski, M.B. Nuclear Arms Race and Arms Control at the Beginning of the 21st Century. Security Dialogue 35(2) June 2004, 217-225.

Kalinowski, M.B., Sartorius, H., Uhl, S., Weiss, W. Conclusions on Plutonium Separation from Atmospheric Krypton-85 Measured at Various Distances from the Karlsruhe Reprocessing Plant. Journal of Environmental Radioactivity 73/2 (2004) 203-222.

Kalinowski, M.B. Liebert, W., Aumann, S. The German Plutonium Balance, 1968-1999. Nonproliferation Review 9 (2002), No. 1, Spring 2002, 146-160

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Link(s)

http://www.uni-hamburg.de/ZNF

Contact Information

Mailing Address

Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker Center for Science and Peace Research,
University of Hamburg,
Room 02/024,
Beim Schlump 83,
20144 Hamburg, Germany

Email

martin[DOT]kalinowski [at] uni-hamburg[DOT]de