Dr Patrick Reichherzer holds a Walter Benjamin Fellowship at the University of Oxford. His research bridges artificial intelligence and plasma-astrophysics.
He completed a joint PhD at Ruhr University Bochum and Paris-Saclay University with summa cum laude (2022), featuring first-author papers on theoretical plasma-astroparticle physics and multimessenger astrophysics (e.g., the popular Astro-COLIBRI platform). Before, he received the RUB Master's Thesis Prize (2018). His recent work on cosmic-ray confinement in galaxy clusters, published as a cover article in Nature Astronomy (2025), revealed the role of microscale plasma physics in macroscopic particle transport. He also develops AI methods for scientific computing, with recent work on physics-informed diffusion models (under review), turbulence reconstruction for NASA's Helioswarm mission (in prep.), and AI for physics and medicine.