Horst Stocker
Horst Stöcker (born December 16, 1952 in Frankfurt am Main ) is a German physicist . His research areas are theoretical particle , nuclear , heavy ion and astrophysics .
Life
Horst Stöcker was born in Frankfurt am Main in 1952 and grew up in Oberursel im Taunus. After graduating from high school in 1971, he studied physics , mathematics , chemistry and philosophy at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main .
After graduating in 1976 he worked on his dissertation Shock waves in nuclear matter - proof by circumstantial evidence at Walter Greiner and was in 1979 at the Frankfurt University doctorate . In 1979 he first became a guest scientist at what was then the Society for Heavy Ion Research in Darmstadt .
1980 Stocker went as DAAD - NATO - Fellow for Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory of the University of California, Berkeley . From 1982 to 1985 he was "Assistant Professor" at the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Michigan State University and at the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory (NSCL) there.
1985 Horst Stoecker took a call to a professorship for Theoretical Physics at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main at, currently he is Professor of Theoretical Physics and Astrophysics at the Goethe University held and is the owner of Judah M. Eisenberg -Lehrstuhls - “Professor Laureatus of Theoretical Physics” in the physics department there.
From 2000 to 2003 he was Vice President of Goethe University, responsible for natural sciences, mathematics, computer science, IT & HPC and medicine. From 2006 to 2007 he held the office of Vice President again. Since 2004 Horst Stöcker has been a “Senior Fellow” and director of the Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies (FIAS) in Frankfurt am Main, which he co-founded . From 2004 to 2006 he was chairman of the FIAS board.
From 2007 to 2015 Horst Stöcker was Scientific Director of the GSI Helmholtz Center for Heavy Ion Research GmbH in Darmstadt, the leading research institution for heavy ion research in Europe.
In this role he was the founder of the international accelerator center Facility for Hadron and Ion Research, FAIR in Darmstadt, as well as one of the founders of the Helmholtz Institutes in Jena (HI Jena) and Mainz (HIM), the International Helmholtz Graduate School, HGS, Hadron and Ion Research for FAIR, HiRe for FAIR, the Helmholtz International Center for FAIR, the FAIR Russia Research Center FRRC in Moscow, and the International Center for FAIR Collaboration in Wuhan, China.
In 2008 he was elected Vice President of the Helmholtz Association of German Research Centers and research area coordinator “Structure of Matter”. Stöcker held the office until 2012.
Honors
- " Judah M. Eisenberg Professor Laureate for Theoretical Physics" at the Department of Physics at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main
- Doctor honoris causa of the Russian Academy of Sciences , Moscow
- Doctor honoris causa from the University of Bucharest , Romania
- Honorary doctorate from the United Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR), Dubna , Russian Federation
- Visiting Professor Chinese University of Science and Technology , USTC, Hefei , Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Visiting professor at Central China Normal University, CCNU, Wuhan, China
- Honorary Professor, Huzhou University, Huzhou, China
- Emilio Segre Distinguished Lecturer in Physics, Tel Aviv University
- Fellow of the Institute of Physics , London, GB
- Fellow of the European Physical Society , EPS, London, GB
- Member, Academia Europaea , London, GB
- Member of acatech , Munich and Berlin
- Hessian Order of Merit
Memberships and seats on advisory boards
- Elected member of the German Academy of Science and Engineering, acatech , Munich
- Elected member of the Academia Europaea , London
- Elected member of the Polytechnic Society in Frankfurt am Main
- Member of the scientific advisory board of the Gutenberg Research College (GFK) at the University of Mainz
- Chairman of the Board of Trustees (until 2014) of the Beilstein Institute, Frankfurt
- Member of the Advisory Board of the Alfons and Gertrud Kassel Foundation , Frankfurt
- Member of the Advisory Board of the Puschmann Foundation, Frankfurt
- Member of the Advisory Board of the H. & E. Kleber Foundation , Frankfurt
- Member of the University Council of the Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences , Frankfurt
- Member of the Board of Trustees of the Provadis University, Frankfurt-Höchst
Scientific reputation
According to Google Scholar, Horst Stöcker is one of the " Top 200 Highly Cited Researchers " in the global ranking of the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) with more than 50,000 citations from his 600 scientific articles and books and a Hirsch index of h = 90 .
Horst Stöcker did his doctorate in more than fifty doctoral students in various research fields, many of whom became professors.
Stöcker is or was visiting professor at various universities and scientific advisor or member of scientific advisory boards of various research institutions, such as the DOE , the Brookhaven National Laboratory , the LBNL and the LLNL and the University of California in the USA, at the research institute RIKEN and at J-PARC , the Japanese Proton Accelerator Research Complex in Tōkai in Japan, the USTC, Chinese University of Science and Technology , Hefei and at Central China Normal University , Wuhan , China , Huzhou University, Huzhou, China, and at the CNRS , at the University of Strasbourg (Université Louis Pasteur) , the University of Nantes (Université de Nantes) , at GANIL and SPIRAL II in Caen in France and at the University of Tel Aviv , Israel.
FIAS
On the initiative of his and his colleagues Walter Greiner and Wolf Singer , the Frankfurt International Graduate School of Sciences (FIGSS) and the Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies (FIAS) were founded in 2004 . Stöcker is a board member at FIAS and expanded the interdisciplinary graduate support at FIAS FIGSS and the University of Frankfurt.
The FIAS deals with the research of complex systems in animate and inanimate nature, including the structure and dynamics of elementary matter, of neural networks, biomolecules, atomic clusters and nanostructures. The FIAS is an excellence initiative that brings together internationally recognized scientists to conduct interdisciplinary research into the theory of complex future scientific topics. Renowned people such as the three Nobel Prize winners Prof. Günter Blobel (New York), Prof. Hartmut Michel (Frankfurt) and Prof. Horst Störmer (New York) were able to be won for the Scientific Advisory Board of FIAS .
Publications
- Walter Greiner, Ludwig Neise, Horst Stöcker: Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics . Harri Deutsch, Thun and Frankfurt am Main 1993, ISBN 978-3-8171-1262-3
- Horst Stöcker: Mathematical formulas for technical training and practice , German (Harri) 1995, ISBN 3-8171-1440-0
- Horst Stöcker: Mathematics - Physics - Chemistry, The basic knowledge, 3 volumes , German (Harri) 2000, ISBN 3-8171-1633-0
- Horst Stöcker: Pocket book of mathematical formulas and modern methods , German (Harri) 2007, ISBN 978-3-8171-1811-3
- Horst Stöcker: Taschenbuch der Physik , German (Harri) 2010, ISBN 978-3-8171-1860-1
Web links
- Literature by and about Horst Stöcker in the catalog of the German National Library
- Horst Stöcker's website at uni-frankfurt.de
- Internet presence of FIGSS
- FIAS website
- Minister Kühne-Hörmann hands over to Prof. Dr. Horst Stöcker Hessian Order of Merit (accessed: June 11, 2013)
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Stocker, Horst |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Stoecker, Horst; Stocker, Horst |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German theoretical heavy ion, nuclear and astrophysicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 16, 1952 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Frankfurt am Main |