Research Interests:

⦁ Effective field theories
⦁ Electroweak precision fits
⦁ Precision observables
⦁ Mathematical methods in physics

2021
University professor, University of Mainz
2018 – 2020Guest scientist, Helmholtz Institute Mainz and University of Mainz
2013 – 2014Guest scientist, University of Mainz
2011Guest scientist, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ
2009 – 2010Guest scientist, RWTH Aachen
2008Guest scientist, University of Washington in Seattle, WA
2007 – 2020Tenured professor, National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM)
2002 – 2007Tenure-track position, National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM)
1997 – 2001Postdoc, University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, PA
1995 – 1997Postdoc, University of California at Santa Cruz, CA
1994 – 1995Postdoc, Autonomous University of Madrid (UAM), Spain
1992 – 1994Postdoc, University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, PA
1992Postdoc, Technical University of Munich (TUM)
Jens Erler and Ayres Freitas, Electroweak model and constraints on new physics, in the Review of Particle Physics: Prog. Theor. Exp. Phys. 2022, 083C01 (2022) DOI: 10.1093/ptep/ptac097
Jens Erler, Pere Masjuan and Hubert Spiesberger, Bottom Quark Mass with Calibrated Uncertainty, Eur. Phys. J. C 82, 1023 (2022) DOI: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-022-10982-x
Jens Erler, Rodolfo Ferro-Hernández and Ayres Freitas, Hadronic effects in Møller scattering at NNLO, JHEP 2208 (2022) 183 DOI: 10.1007/JHEP08(2022)183
Jens Erler and Rodolfo Ferro-Hernández, Alternative to the application of PDG scale factors, Eur. Phys. J. C 80, 541 (2020) DOI: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-020-8115-3
Jens Erler and Matthias Schott, Electroweak Precision Tests of the Standard Model after the Discovery of the Higgs Boson, Prog. Part. Nucl. Phys. 106, 68–119 (2019) DOI: 10.1016/j.ppnp.2019.02.007
Dominik Becker et al., The P2 Experiment — A Future High-precision Measurement of the Weak Mixing Angle at Low Momentum Transfer, Eur. Phys. J. A 54, 208 (2018) DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2018-12611-6
Jens Erler and Rodolfo Ferro-Hernández, Weak Mixing Angle in the Thomson Limit, JHEP 1803, 196 (2018) DOI: 10.1007/JHEP03(2018)196
Jens Erler, Pere Masjuan and Hubert Spiesberger, Charm Quark Mass with Calibrated Uncertainty, Eur. Phys. J. C 77, 99 (2017) DOI: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-017-4667-2
Jens Erler, On the Combination Procedure of Correlated Errors, Eur. Phys. J. C 75, 453 (2015) DOI: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-015-3688-y
Eduardo Rojas and Jens Erler, Alternative Z’ Bosons in E6, JHEP 1510, 063 (2015) DOI: 10.1007/JHEP10(2015)063
Jens Erler, Charles J. Horowitz, Sonny Mantry and Paul A. Souder, Weak Polarized Electron Scattering, Annu. Rev. Nucl. Part. Sci. 64, 269–298 (2014) DOI: 10.1146/annurev-nucl-102313-025520
The Jefferson Lab PVDIS Collaboration: D. Wang et al., Measurement of parity violation in electron-quark scattering, Nature 506, 67–70 (2014) DOI: 10.1038/nature12964
Jens Erler and Shufang Su, The Weak Neutral Current, Prog. Part. Nucl. Phys. 71, 119-149(2013) DOI: 10.1016/j.ppnp.2013.03.004
Jens Erler, Paul Langacker, Shoaib Munir and Eduardo Rojas, Z’ Bosons at Colliders: a Bayesian Viewpoint, JHEP 11, 076 (2011) DOI: 10.1007/JHEP11(2011)076
Jens Erler and Paul Langacker, Precision Constraints on Extra Fermion Generations, Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 031801 (2010) DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.105.031801
Jens Erler, Mass of the Higgs Boson in the Standard Electroweak Model, Phys. Rev. D 81, 051301(R) (2010) DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.81.051301
Jens Erler, Paul Langacker, Shoaib Munir and Eduardo Rojas, Improved Constraints on Z’ Bosons from Electroweak Precision Data, JHEP 08, 017 (2009) DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2009/08/017
Jens Erler and Genaro Toledo Sánchez, Upper bound on the hadronic light-by-light contribution to the muon g-2, Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 161801 (2006) DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.97.161801
Jens Erler and Michael J. Ramsey-Musolf, Weak mixing angle at low energies, Phys. Rev. D 72, 073003 (2005) DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.72.073003
Jens Erler and Michael J. Ramsey-Musolf, Low energy tests of the weak interaction, Prog. Part. Nucl. Phys. 54, 351-442 (2005) DOI: 10.1016/j.ppnp.2004.08.001
Jens Erler, Andriy Kurylov and Michael J. Ramsey-Musolf, Weak charge of the proton and new physics, Phys. Rev. D 68, 016006 (2003) DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.68.016006
Jens Erler, Electroweak radiative corrections to semileptonic decays, Rev. Mex. Fis. 50, 200-202 (2004) https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.hep-ph/0211345
Jens Erler, Paul Langacker and Tianjun Li, Z-Z’ mass hierarchy in a supersymmetric model with a secluded U(1)’-breaking sector, Phys. Rev. D 66, 015002 (2002) DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.66.015002
Jens Erler and Mingxing Luo, Hadronic loop corrections to the muon anomalous magnetic moment, Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 071804 (2001) DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.87.071804
Jens Erler, Probability density of the mass of the standard model Higgs boson, Phys. Rev. D 63, 071301(R) (2001) DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.63.071301
Jens Erler, Chiral models of weak scale supersymmetry, Nucl. Phys. B 586, 73-91 (2000) DOI: 10.1016/S0550-3213(00)00427-2
  • Prof. Dr. Hubert Spiesberger
  • Dr. Mikail Gorshteyn
  • Dr. Lisong Chen
  • Rolando Martinez Ramirez
  • Vigneshwaran Palaniappan
  • Vanessa Hert
  • Gabriel Hander
  • Saharsh Saraogi
  • Rodolfo Ferro Hernandez
  1. Arbeitsgruppenseminar zu aktuellen Themen in der Theoretischen Kern- und Elementarteilchenphysik
    Instructor: Prof. Dr. Jens Erler; Mikhail Gorshteyn; apl. Prof. Dr. Hubert Spiesberger
  2. Theoretische Physik 6a, Relativistische Quantenfeldtheorie
    Instructor: Prof. Dr. Jens Erler

SoSe 2026

SS 2025 Undergraduate Classical Mechanics
WS 2024/25 Undergraduate Mathematical Methods
SS 2024Graduate Data Analysis and Statistics
WS 2023/24Graduate Symmetries in Physics
SS 2023Graduate General Relativity
WS 2022/23 Undergraduate Classical Electrodynamics
SS 2022 Undergraduate Classical Mechanics
WS 2021/22 Undergraduate Mathematical Methods
SS 2021Graduate General Relativity
2017 (spring)Graduate course The Electroweak Standard Model (UNAM)
2016 (fall) Graduate course Introduction to the Physics of Elementary Particles (UNAM)
2015 (fall) Graduate course Group Theory (UNAM)
2014 (fall) Graduate course Cosmology (UNAM)
2013 (spring) Graduate course General Relativity (UNAM)
2012 (spring) Graduate course Supersymmetry (UNAM)
2011 (spring) Graduate course Introduction to the Standard Model II (UNAM)
2010 (fall) Graduate course Introduction to the Standard Model I (UNAM)
2008 (spring) Graduate course Quantum Field Theory III: Renormalization (UNAM)
2007 (fall) Graduate course Quantum Field Theory II: Quantization (UNAM)
2007 (spring) Graduate course Introduction to Quantum Field Theory (UNAM)
2006 (fall) Graduate course Introduction to the Physics of Elementary Particles (UNAM)
2005 (spring) Graduate course Supersymmetry (UNAM)
2004 (spring) Graduate course The Electroweak Standard Model (UNAM)
2003 (spring) Graduate course The Electroweak Standard Model (UNAM)
2000 (summer) Undergraduate course Introductory Physics (University of Pennsylvania).
1999 (fall)Graduate course Bayesian Data Analysis (University of Pennsylvania)