17.06.2026 - Dr. Dr. Antje Peters

Teil der Veranstaltungsreihe "Physiker*innen im Beruf"

From Tetraquarks to Sharp Waves: How Physics Prepared Me for Challenges It Never Taught Me About

Nine years ago, I earned my Ph.D. from the Department of Physics at Goethe University Frankfurt, focusing on the spectroscopy of exotic hadrons, particularly tetraquark candidates. Today, I work as a physician in neurology and researcher in the field of neuroscience and epileptology, investigating neural processes using invasive and non-invasive electrophysiological methods and functional imaging. Although particle physics and cognitive neuroscience differ profoundly in their questions, methods, and degree of formalization, my training in physics provided something that turned out to be unexpectedly transferable: confidence in quantitative reasoning, familiarity with computational tools, and the conviction that even complex problems can be approached systematically.

The talk traces my path from particle physics through neuroscience to clinical epileptology and discusses which ways of thinking and methods from physics continue to shape my current research and how this background prepared me for working in a fundamentally different scientific environment

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