Christian Spiering
Christian Spiering, born in 1948, is one of the world's most renowned representatives of neutrino astrophysics and, thanks to his role in the telescopes at Lake Baikal and the South Pole, is one of the pioneers in this field. Until 2013, he headed the neutrino group at DESY, and in 2014 he initiated the Global Neutrino Network. Christian Spiering lives in Berlin. He is the author of two popular science books, Auf der Suche nach der Urkraft (Teubner/Harry Deutsch 1986) and Neutrinoastronomie - Blick in verborgene Welten (Springer 2021).