Holger J. Pletsch

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Holger Johannes Pletsch (born August 16, 1982 ) is a German physicist.

Pletsch studied at the University of Kaiserslautern and the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and received his doctorate in 2009 from the Leibniz University in Hanover (Data analysis for continuous gravitational waves: deepest all sky surveys). Since 2013 he has been an independent research group leader at the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute) in Hanover. Pletsch is one of the leading scientists in the Einstein @ home project for distributed computing to search for pulsars in data from the Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory , the Arecibo radio telescope, and the Fermi space telescope for gamma-ray astronomy . Among other things, the initial discovery he achieved a millisecond pulsars only by its pulsed gamma radiation.

Awards

In 2009, he was the youngest doctoral candidate to receive the Dieter Rampacher Prize of the Max Planck Society with an excellent doctorate. In the same year the Gravitational Wave International Committee (GWIC) awarded him the international GWIC-Thesis Prize for the best dissertation in the field of gravitational wave astronomy.

In 2013 he received the Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Prize for the development of efficient data analysis methods that are used to discover gravitational waves and which also enabled the discovery of new pulsars in gamma-ray astronomy.

In 2014 he was awarded research funding as part of the Emmy_Noether program of the German Research Foundation.

In 2014 he was named one of the "Top 40 under 40" in Germany by the Capital business magazine in the field of "Young Elite" in science. For the newspaper Die Welt he is also one of the 40 top talents under 40 who will shape Germany.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Press release DFG, May 2013
  2. ↑ KNI / ME / HOR: Black Widow invites you to dance in the gamma light on the homepage of the Max Planck Society from October 25, 2012
  3. ↑ Dieter Rampacher Prize
  4. ^ Gravitational Wave International Committee (GWIC) Thesis Prize
  5. ↑ Pletsch u. a. Binary Millisecond Pulsar Discovery via Gamma-Ray Pulsations , Science, Volume 338, 2012, 1314, Arxiv
  6. ↑ HOR / BA: About attoseconds, pulsars and chemical reactions on the homepage of the Max Planck Society . dated May 3, 2013, accessed May 29, 2013
  7. ↑ These 40 under 40 will change Germany
personal data
SURNAME Pletsch, Holger J.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pletsch, Holger Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physicist
DATE OF BIRTH August 16, 1982