Günther Hasinger

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Günther Gustav Hasinger (born April 28, 1954 in Oberammergau ) is a German astrophysicist .

Live and act

After graduating from high school in 1973, Hasinger completed his community service at the Surgical Clinic in Munich at the Max-Planck-Gymnasium in Munich-Pasing . In 1974 he recorded an album with the rock group Saffran , where he played bass guitar - the group made it onto the cover of the BRAVO , but it was never published and the group disbanded a little later (in 2004 the album became Blue in Ashes published on CD ). His next goal was medicine, but after turning down a place at Clausthal-Zellerfeld , he began studying physics at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich in 1975 with the aim of later becoming a sound engineer . Here Rudolf Kippenhahn's lectures aroused his interest in astronomy. When a very close and bright nova ( V1668-CYGNI ) broke out during a 14-day internship at the University Observatory in Bogenhausen in the 1978 summer semester, the constellation Swan ( V1668-CYGNI ), he carried out spectrographic investigations on this object as an intern over the next few months . This experience shaped the young student and finally led him towards astronomy. In the following winter semester, he took a lecture on X-ray astronomy with Joachim Trümper - his main focus for the following decades. The subject of his diploma thesis in 1980 was the scattering of X-rays on polished surfaces , in 1984 he did his doctorate on the observation of the crab in hard X-ray light , then he went as a research assistant at the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics in Garching and mainly worked on the Evaluation of the data from the X-ray satellites EXOSAT , GINGA and ROSAT . He completed his habilitation in 1995 at the LMU Munich on active galaxies and X-ray background radiation .

From 1994 to 2001 he held a chair at the University of Potsdam and was director, from 1998 to 2001 spokesman for the board of the Astrophysical Institute Potsdam . During these years he lived in Caputh am Schwielowsee, the place where Albert Einstein had his “summer idyll” built by the architect Konrad Wachsmann in 1929 .

From 2001 to 2008 he was director of the X-ray and gamma group at the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics in Garching and since 2003 honorary professor at the Technical University of Munich . From 2004 to 2006 he was chairman of the Council of German Observatories (RDS), from November 2008 to January 2011 scientific director of the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics (IPP) in Garching. In 2011 Hasinger took over the management of the Institute for Astronomy (IfA) at the University of Hawaii . In December 2017, the Council of the European Space Agency announced the appointment of Hasinger as the new ESA Director for Science.

Hasinger is married to Barbara Kreiß-Hasinger and has two sons.

Awards

Hasinger has been a member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities since 2002 . In 2009 he was accepted as a full member of the Academia Europaea . In 2011 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina .

Publications (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics: Scientific management. Resume . ( Memento from January 6, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ^ Institute for Astronomy, University of Hawaii: Günther Hasinger, IfA Director .
  3. ^ Regiomontanus Bote - Die Zeitschrift der Nürnberger Astronomischen Arbeitsgemeinschaft eV, Volume 31, 1/2018, p. 42, quoted from a press release from the University of Hawaii on December 14, 2017
  4. ↑ Member entry by Prof. Dr. Günther Gustav Hasinger (with picture and CV) at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on July 11, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Hasinger, Günther
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hasinger, Günther Gustav (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German astrophysicist
DATE OF BIRTH April 28, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Oberammergau