Person
Dr. rer. nat., Professor als JuniorprofessorMalte Göttsche
Nuclear Verification and Disarmament
Address
Building: Rogowski
Room: 432
Schinkelstraße 2
52062 Aachen
Professional Experience
- Postdoctoral Research Associate, Program on Science and Global Security, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Princeton University, 2015-2017
- Research Assistant, Centre for Science and Peace Research, University of Hamburg, 2012-2015
- Visiting Scholar, Center for Nonproliferation Studies, Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey, 2010/2011
Education
- Doctorate in Physics, University of Hamburg, Germany, 2012 - 2015
- Diploma in Physics, University of Hamburg, Germany, 2006 - 2012
- Exchange, Uppsala University, Sweden, 2008/2009
Awards and Achievements
- Awarded with the Nuclear-Free Future Award 2022
- Participation at Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings 2019 after successful application
- Inducted into Junges Kolleg, North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences, Humanities and the Arts, 2019
Publications
| Title | Author(s) |
|---|---|
| Using Fuel Cycle Simulators and Bayesian Inference in Nuclear Archaeology Journal Article (2022) | Schalz, Max Bormann, Lewin Göttsche, Malte |
| Zwischen Destabilisierung und der Ermöglichung von Resilienz: Perspektiven aus den Technikwissenschaften, den Sozialwissenschaften und den Rechtswissenschaften Journal Article (2022) | Reuter, Christian Göttsche, Malte Frieß, Friederike Thielbörger, Pierre Vüllers, Johannes |
| Die Friedens-Warte 93:3-4 (Special Issue) Book (2022) | Reuter, Christian Göttsche, Malte Frieß, Friederike Thielbörger, Pierre Vüllers, Johannes |
| Forensic Measurements for Nuclear Archaeology - A New Approach Contribution to a conference proceedings (2022) | Rademacher, Lukas Göttsche, Malte |
| Assessing Uncertainty in Plutonium Production Estimates Based on the Isotope Ratio Method Journal Article (2022) | Jung, Benjamin Rolf Dieter (Corresponding author) Göttsche, Malte |
| Liquid-organic time projection chamber for detecting low energy antineutrinos Journal Article (2022) | Radermacher, Thomas Bosse, Johannes Friedrich, Sarah Göttsche, Malte Roth, Stefan Schwefer, Georg |
| Conference Proceedings : Science, Peace, Security '21 : The Impact of new Technologies: Destabilizing or Enabling Resilience? : 8-10 September 2021 Proceedings (2022) | Göttsche, Malte (Editor) Bauer, Sibylle (Editor) Dahlmann, Anja (Editor) Frieß, Friederike (Editor) Lentzos, Filippa (Editor) Neuneck, Götz (Editor) Niemeyer, Irmgard (Editor) Riebe, Thea (Editor) Silomon, Jantje (Editor) Reuter, Christian (Editor) Brochhaus, Jakob (Editor) Rademacher, Lukas (Editor) |
| Implementation and Validation of the Pulse-Height Tally in OpenMC Contribution to a conference proceedings (2021) | Fichtlscherer, Christopher Frieß, Friederike Göttsche, Malte Kütt, Moritz |
| Can We Fake Gamma Emissions of Nuclear Warheads? An Exploratory Study Contribution to a conference proceedings (2021) | Fichtlscherer, Christopher Göttsche, Malte Kütt, Moritz |
| Uncertainty Assessment of the Isotope Ratio Method in Nuclear Archaeology Contribution to a conference proceedings (2021) | Jung, Benjamin Rolf Dieter Göttsche, Malte |
| Nuclear Archaeology Based on Measurements of Reprocessing Waste: First Experimental Results Contribution to a conference proceedings (2021) | Figueroa Caceres, Antonio Jose Göttsche, Malte |
| Conclusion: Building up Transparency and Verification Contribution to a book (2021) | Göttsche, Malte Glaser, Alexander |
| Fissile Material Stocks and Production Contribution to a book (2021) | Squassoni, Sharon Göttsche, Malte |
| Toward Nuclear Disarmament : Building up Transparency and Verification Book (2021) | Göttsche, Malte (Editor) Glaser, Alexander (Editor) |
| Gaussian processes for surrogate modeling of discharged fuel nuclide compositions Journal Article (2021) | Figueroa Caceres, Antonio Jose (Corresponding author) Göttsche, Malte |
| An integrated approach to nuclear archaeology Contribution to a book, Contribution to a conference proceedings (2020) | Göttsche, Malte Figueroa Caceres, Antonio Jose Frank, Martin |
| Interdisciplinary Contributions to Natural Science/Technical Peace Research Journal Article (2020) | Reuter, Christian (Editor) Altmann, Juergen (Editor) Göttsche, Malte (Editor) Himmel, Mirko (Editor) |
| Natural Science and Technical Peace Research: Definition, History, and Current Work Journal Article (2020) | Reuter, Christian Altmann, Jürgen Göttsche, Malte Himmel, Mirko |
| Sicherheit durch Verifikation: Wie ließe sich nukleare Abrüstung in Nordkorea überprüfen? Preprint (2020) | Göttsche, Malte Englert, Matthias Wittel, Madalina Hebel, Simon |
| Gaussian Processes for Surrogate Modeling of Discharged Fuel Nuclide Compositions Preprint (2020) | Figueroa Caceres, Antonio Jose (Corresponding author) Göttsche, Malte (Corresponding author) |
| Nuclear Archaeology to Assess Fissile Material Inventories for Nuclear Safety and Security, Transparency and Disarmament Preprint (2020) | Göttsche, Malte |
| Sicherheit durch Verifikation: Wie ließe sich nukleare Abrüstung in Nordkorea überprüfen? Journal Article (2020) | Göttsche, Malte Englert, Matthias Wittel, Madalina Hebel, Simon |
| Antineutrino Detection Techniques for Monitoring Long-Term Geological Repositories Journal Article (2020) | Wittel, Madalina (Corresponding author) Göttsche, Malte (Corresponding author) |
| Zur naturwissenschaftlich-technischen Friedens- und Konfliktforschung: Aktuelle Herausforderungen und Bewertung der Empfehlungen des Wissenschaftsrats Journal Article (2020) | Reuter, Christian (Corresponding author) Altmann, Jürgen Göttsche, Malte Himmel, Mirko |
| Verifying Baseline Declarations of Fissile Materials for Stability and Irreversibility of Nuclear Disarmament Poster (2020) | Wittel, Madalina (Corresponding author) Göttsche, Malte |
| Integrated Nuclear Archaeology Poster (2020) | Figueroa Caceres, Antonio Jose Göttsche, Malte |
| A Technical Forum for Confidence-Building in the Autonomous Weapons Realm Contribution to a book (2020) | Göttsche, Malte |
| Attribute Information Barriers Contribution to a book (2020) | Göttsche, Malte (Corresponding author) Kirchner, Gerald |
| Stellungnahme zur Anhörung "Die Friedens- und Konfliktforschung stärken" Report (2020) | Göttsche, Malte |
| Stellungnahme zur Zukunft der nuklearen Rüstungskontrolle und des Nichtverbreitungsvertrags Report (2020) | Göttsche, Malte |
| Nuclear Archaeology : reconstructing reactor histories from reprocessing waste Journal Article (2019) | Figueroa Caceres, Antonio Jose (Corresponding author) Göttsche, Malte (Corresponding author) |
| Science Peace Security '19 : Proceedings of the Interdisciplinary Conference on Technical Peace and Security Research : 25.-27.9.2019, Darmstadt, Germany Proceedings (2019) | Reuter, Christian (Editor) Altmann, Jürgen (Editor) Göttsche, Malte (Editor) Himmel, Mirko (Editor) |
| Nuclear Archaeology: Reconstructing Reactor Histories From Reprocessing Waste Contribution to a book, Contribution to a conference proceedings (2019) | Figueroa Caceres, Antonio Jose (Corresponding author) Göttsche, Malte (Corresponding author) |
| Liquid Argon : Based Antineutrino Detection Techniques for Nuclear Waste Verification Contribution to a book, Contribution to a conference proceedings (2019) | Wittel, Madalina (Corresponding author) Göttsche, Malte Stahl, Achim |
| An integrated approach to nuclear archaeology Contribution to a conference proceedings (2019) | Göttsche, Malte (Corresponding author) Figueroa Caceres, Antonio Jose Frank, Martin |
| Nuclear Archaeology for Nonproliferation, Disarmament and Transparency Contribution to a book, Contribution to a conference proceedings (2019) | Göttsche, Malte (Corresponding author) |
| Verifikation nuklearer Abrüstung News (2019) | Göttsche, Malte |
| Überprüfung waffenfähiger Spaltmaterialien für Abrüstungsverifikation Contribution to a book (2019) | Göttsche, Malte |
| Verifikation nuklearer Abrüstung : Herausforderungen, Lösungsansätze und Grenzen der Kernwaffenauthentifizierung Book (2019) | Göttsche, Malte Postelt, Frederik Kirchner, Gerald |
| Understanding Uncertainties in Nuclear Archaeology Contribution to a conference proceedings (2018) | Kütt, Moritz de Troullioud de Lanversin, Julien Göttsche, Malte |
| Nuclear inspections in the matrix: virtual reality for the development of inspection approachesin new facility types Contribution to a conference proceedings (2018) | Kütt, Moritz Glaser, Alexander Patton, Tamara Göttsche, Malte |
| Mit Teilchendetektoren gegen Atomwaffen Journal Article (2018) | Göttsche, Malte |
| The grand picture of verifying nuclear disarmament: What needs to be done? News (2018) | Göttsche, Malte |
| Information barrier experimental: Toward a trusted and open-source computing platform for nuclear warhead verification Journal Article (2018) | Kütt, Moritz Göttsche, Malte (Corresponding author) Glaser, Alexander |
| Nuclear Archaeology to Distinguish Plutonium and Tritium Production Modes in Heavy-Water Reactors Journal Article (2018) | de Troullioud de Lanversin, Julien (Corresponding author) Göttsche, Malte Glaser, Alexander |
| An integrated nuclear archaeology approach to reconstruct fissile material production histories Contribution to a conference proceedings (2017) | Göttsche, Malte Mouginot, Baptiste |
| Nuclear inspections in the matrix: working with radiation detectors in virtual reality Contribution to a conference proceedings (2017) | Petruzzi, Luke Cogswell, Bernadette Glaser, Alexander Göttsche, Malte Patton, Tamara Wallace, Drew |
| Nuclear archaeology for heavy water reactors to distinguish plutonium and other isotope production modes Contribution to a conference proceedings (2017) | de Troullioud de Lanversin, Julien Glaser, Alexander Göttsche, Malte |
| Examining reprocessing waste to helpestimate past plutonium production Contribution to a conference proceedings (2017) | Göttsche, Malte de Troullioud de Lanversin, Julien Tietze-Jaensch, Holger |
| Fissile Material Stockpile Declarations and Cooperative Nuclear Archaeology Contribution to a book (2017) | Glaser, Alexander Göttsche, Malte |
| Toward an Open-Source Neutronics Code for Circulating-Fuel Reactors Contribution to a book, Contribution to a conference proceedings (2017) | Göttsche, Malte de Troullioud de Lanversin, Julien Glaser, Alexander |
| Disarmament hacking 2.0: toward a trusted, open-hardware computing platform for nuclear warhead verification Contribution to a conference proceedings (2016) | Kütt, Moritz Göttsche, Malte Glaser, Alexander |
| Neutron multiplicity simulations: geant4 versus mcnpx-polimi Contribution to a conference proceedings (2016) | Kütt, Moritz Göttsche, Malte |
| Low-resolution gamma-ray spectrometry for an information barrier based on the template-matching approach Contribution to a conference proceedings (2016) | Göttsche, Malte Glaser, Alexander |
| Low-resolution gamma-ray spectrometry for an information barrier based on a multi-criteria template-matching approach Journal Article (2016) | Göttsche, Malte (Corresponding author) Schirm, Janet Glaser, Alexander |
| Overcoming challenges of non-nuclear weapon states involvement in disarmament verification Poster (2015) | Göttsche, Malte |
| Neutron multiplicity counting for warhead authentication: bias reduction and quantification Contribution to a conference proceedings (2015) | Göttsche, Malte Kirchner, Gerald |
| Advancing disarmament verification tools : a task for Europe? Journal Article (2015) | Göttsche, Malte Kütt, Moritz Neuneck, Götz Niemeyer, Irmgard |
| Improving neutron multiplicity counting for the spatial dependence of multiplication : Results for spherical plutonium samples Journal Article (2015) | Göttsche, Malte (Corresponding author) Kirchner, Gerald |
| Mcnpx-polimi simulation capacity using thermal neutron cross-sections to assess the reliability of the neutron multiplicity mass analysis where shielding is unknown Contribution to a conference proceedings (2014) | Göttsche, Malte Kirchner, Gerald |
| Neutron multiplicity counting for future verification missions: bias when the sample configuration remains unknown Contribution to a conference proceedings (2014) | Göttsche, Malte Kirchner, Gerald |
| Editors’ Note Journal Article (2014) | Glaser, Alexander Göttsche, Malte |
| New Tools & New Actors to Reduce Nuclear Risks : Verifying Baseline Declarations of Nuclear Materials and Warheads Book (2014) | Fuller, James Carlson, John Göttsche, Malte |
| Measurement Techniques for Warhead Authentication with Attributes: Advantages and Limitations Journal Article (2014) | Göttsche, Malte (Corresponding author) Kirchner, Gerald |
| Concepts for dismantlement verification and neutron multiplicity measurements for plutonium mass attribute determination Contribution to a conference proceedings (2013) | Göttsche, Malte Peerani, Paolo Kirchner, Gerald |
| Panel Discussion: Disarmament Verification - a Dialogue on Technical and Transparency Issues Journal Article (2013) | Göttsche, Malte Neuneck, Götz |
| Introduction to attributes information barrier for nuclear warhead authentication Contribution to a conference proceedings (2011) | Göttsche, Malte Dalnoki-Veress, Ferenc |
| C/O Kerma coefficient ratio for 96 MeV neutrons deduced from microscopic measurements Journal Article (2010) | Göttsche, Malte (First author) Pomp, S. Tippawan, U. Andersson, P. Bevilacqua, R. Blomgren, J. Gustavsson, C. Österlund, M. Simutkin, V. |
Memberships
- Junges Kolleg, North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences, Humanities and the Arts
- Working Group Physics and Disarmament, German Physical Society
- Research Association for Science, Disarmament and International Security (FONAS), Deputy Chairman
- Bonn International Center for Conversion, Associate Researcher
International Conference Organization
- Christian Reuter, Malte Göttsche, Mirko Himmel and Jürgen Altmann, Science · Peace · Security ’19, TU Darmstadt, September 25 to 27, 2019, Darmstadt.
- Malte Göttsche (conference chair), Science · Peace · Security '21, RWTH Aachen University, September 8 to 10 2021, Aachen.
Invited Talks
- Malte Göttsche, Verifikation nuklearer Rüstungskontrolle, Zentrum für Verifikationsaufgaben der Bundeswehr, Geilenkirchen, January 29, 2020.
- Malte Göttsche, Kathryn Nixdorff, Jürgen Scheffran, Wie kann die naturwissenschaftliche Friedens- und Konfliktforschung den künftigen Herausforderungen begegnen? Podiumsdiskussion, Symposium Naturwissenschaften und Friedensforschung, Institut für Friedensforschung und Sicherheitspolitik, October 16, 2019.
- Malte Göttsche, Nuclear archaeology and more: Verifying nuclear disarmament, Nuclear Waste Management Colloquium, Forschungszentrum Jülich, April 16, 2019.
- Malte Göttsche, Nuclear Weapon Control, Physics Colloquium, RWTH Aachen University, April 15, 2019.
- Malte Göttsche, Physics and Nuclear Disarmament, Particle Physics Seminar, University of Bonn, December 20, 2018.
- Malte Göttsche, Nuklear-Archäologie: Verifikation von Produktionshistorien waffenfähiger spaltbarer Materialien, Fraunhofer-Institut für Naturwissenschaftlich-Technische Trendanalysen INT, September 5, 2018.
- Malte Göttsche, Understanding Fissile Material Production Histories using Nuclear Archaeology, United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research, May 15, 2018, Geneva, Switzerland.
- Malte Göttsche, Physics and Nuclear Disarmament, Institute for Radioecology and Radiation Protection, Hannover University, April 19, 2018, Hannover, Germany.
- Malte Göttsche, Verification of Fissile Material Restrictions, Center for Strategic and International Studies, June 28, 2016, Washington, D.C., United States.
- Malte Göttsche, Measurement Techniques for Warhead Authentication with Attributes: Advantages and Limitations, China Academy of Engineering Physics, June 15, 2015, Beijing, China.