Achim Schwenk

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Achim Schwenk (born before 1995) is a German astro and theoretical nuclear physicist . Since 2009 he has been a professor at the Institute for Nuclear Physics at the Technical University of Darmstadt .

Life

Growing up in Herrenberg , he studied physics in Heidelberg from 1995 and completed his intermediate diploma there. He graduated from Stony Brook University in New York State , United States , for his degree and PhD (2002) . A position in the USA and Canada followed . In the end, Schwenk accepted a position as professor at the TU Darmstadt and the “ExtreMe Matter Institute” (EMMI) in 2009. With the award of the “Starting Independent Researcher Grant”, he received a grant of 1.5 million euros.

Scientific work

In more than 100 articles, Schwenk deals with theoretical astro and nuclear physics.

Offices

  • since 2011: Editor-in-chief of the Journal of Physics G Nucl. and Part. Phys.
  • 2010–2013: Editor in Chief of the European Journal of Physics A: Hadrons and Nuclei

Awards

  • 2011: Athene Prize for Teaching, TU Darmstadt
  • 2012: Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS)
  • 2012: Starting Independent Researcher Grant from the ERC
  • 2013: Zdzislaw Szymanski Prize

Works

  • Edited with János Polónyi: Renormalization group and effective field theory approaches to many-body systems . Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg 2012, ISBN 978-3-642-27319-3 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Physics Student Council: ... with Prof. Schwenk. Retrieved January 12, 2019 .
  2. A new house for nuclear physics. pro-physik.de, January 18, 2013, accessed May 14, 2014 .
  3. Achim Schwenk. inspirehep.net, accessed May 14, 2014 .
  4. APS Fellow Archive. Retrieved February 9, 2020 .