Kai Germaschewski is Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics of the University of New Hampshire and a member of the Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space there.

During his visit in July 2009, Prof. Dr. Kai Germaschewski will work with Prof. Dr. Hartmut Ruhl from the Faculty of Physics of the LMU on the development of Adaptive-Mesh-Refinement Particle-In-Cell Codes (AMR-PIC), which is to be used for the modeling of new radiation sources.