Andreas Burkert

Andreas Burkert (born May 12, 1959 in Gangkofen ) is a German astrophysicist and university professor .

life and work

Andreas Burkert studied physics at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich (LMU) as a scholarship holder of the German National Academic Foundation . He did his doctorate there in 1989 under Rolf-Peter Kudritzki with a thesis on the formation of galaxies. From 1989 to 1990 he went to the University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign) and then to the University of California (Santa Cruz) as a Feodor Lynen Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation . In 1991 he returned to Germany, initially working as a research assistant at the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics (Garching) until 1995 and then from 1995 to 2003 as head of the theory group at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Heidelberg.

Since 2003 he has been a full professor at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and holds the chair for theoretical and numerical astrophysics. In 2006 he was appointed a Max Planck Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics . He has lived in Petershausen since 2003 .

From 2011 to 2014 he was President of the Astronomical Society . He is editor of the series “Astrophysik Aktuell” (Springer).

Andreas Burkert uses numerical simulations to research complex dynamic processes in the universe and its development. He investigates structures made of dark matter, the formation of galaxies, the structure and development of turbulent interstellar gas and the formation of stars and star clusters. The International Astronomic Union named a minor planet after him: 267003 Burkert.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ https://www.merkur.de/lokales/dachau/petershausen/ich-beginne-universum-verhaben-4591169.html
2. ↑ https://www.merkur.de/lokales/dachau/petershausen/ich-beginne-universum-verhaben-4591169.html

Awards and academic awards

• 1984: Scholarship from the German National Academic Foundation
• 1989: Feodor Lynen research grant
• 1990: LMU prize for the best doctoral thesis in physics
• 1993: Ludwig Biermann Prize of the Astronomical Society
• 2006: Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts
• 2011: Name giver for the asteroid (276003) Burkert
• 2012: Higgs Fellow at the “Higgs Center for Theoretical Physics”, Edinburgh

Book publications

• Andreas Burkert, Rudolf Kippenhahn : The Milky Way . CH Beck, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-406-39717-4 .
• Andreas Burkert, Helmut Hetznecker, Philipp Schoeller: Fragile world, how mankind can survive global natural disasters . Herbig, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-7766-2617-9 .

Web links

• Burkert's homepage at the university observatory
• Burkert's profile at LMU
• Literature by and about Andreas Burkert in the catalog of the German National Library