Manfred Lindner (born 22 February 1957) is a German physicist and director at the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics in Heidelberg, Germany.
Subsequently, he was from 1987 to 1989 postdoc at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) in Chicago and from 1989 to 1991 Fellow at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland.
On the experimental side Manfred Lindner and his division make leading contributions to international research projects in the field of neutrino physics and dark matter search.
Lindner is co-spokesperson of the international XENON Collaboration which achieved with its XENON1T detector world-leading results for the direct detection of Dark Matter.
Another project is the STEREO experiment [3] which aims at detecting or refuting sterile neutrinos at the research reactor at ILL in Grenoble.
In 1990 he was awarded a Heisenberg Stipendium of the Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) which he used from 1991 to teach and conduct research at the Universität Heidelberg.