Ingo Hofmann

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Ingo Hofmann (* 1943 in Senftenberg ) is a German physicist .

Training and activities

Hofmann studied physics at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and received his doctorate in theoretical plasma physics in 1972 at the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics in Garching near Munich . He completed his habilitation in 1984 and is an adjunct professor at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main . From 1983 to 2013 Hofmann worked at the GSI Helmholtz Center for Heavy Ion Research in Darmstadt , most recently as head of accelerator theory . From 1994 to 1998 he led (with G. Plass, CERN) the European HIDIF study on energy generation through inertial fusion using accelerators.

Hofmann is a Fellow of the American Physical Society . He was active in review committees of various large accelerators , for example at J-PARC and most recently in 2012 at the Chinese ADS accelerator, which is currently being planned. He has been chairman of the Beam Dynamics Panel at the International Committee for Future Accelerators (ICFA) since 2019. From 1998 to 2013 Hofmann was a member and from 2008 to 2013 chairman of the Inertial Fusion Energy Working Group of EURATOM . Since 2013 he has been working in an advisory capacity at the Technical University of Darmstadt and at the GSI Helmholtz Center for Heavy Ion Research.

Hofmann has worked as a visiting researcher at major accelerator centers and universities in various countries, such as the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory ( USA ), Los Alamos National Laboratory (USA), the Brookhaven National Laboratory (USA), CERN ( Switzerland ) and the University of Tokyo ( Japan ).

From 2005 to 2019 Hofmann was the human rights officer for the Bahá'í community in Germany and its spokesman for politics, non-governmental organizations and the media . His focus here was on religious freedom , especially in the Islamic Republic of Iran .

Services

Hofmann's pioneering work on collective instabilities and anisotropy effects was used in the design of modern large accelerator systems for high intensities such as spallation neutron sources (J-PARC / Japan, SNS / USA or ESS / Sweden ) or ADS accelerators for the transmutation of via the “Hofmann stability charts” nuclear waste .

Private

Hofmann is a father of four and a grandfather of three. He can converse in English , Italian , Persian and French .

Works

physics

  • Ingo Hofmann: Stability of anisotropic beams with space charge . In: Physical Review . E57, no. 4713 , 1998, doi : 10.1103 / PhysRevE.57.4713 .
  • Ingo Hofmann; J. Qiang; RD Ryne: Collective Resonance Model of Energy Exchange in 3D Nonequipartitioned Beams . In: Physical Review Letters . tape 86 , no. 2313 , 2001, doi : 10.1103 / PhysRevLett.86.2313 .
  • Ingo Hofmann; Jürgen Meyer-ter-Vehn; Xueqing Yan; Anna Orzhekhovskaya; Stepan Yaramyshev: Collection and focusing of laser accelerated ion beams for therapy applications . In: Physical Review Special Topics - Accelerators and Beams . tape 10 , no. 031304 , 2011, doi : 10.1103 / PhysRevSTAB.14.031304 .
  • Ingo Hofmann; Rudolf Bock: Heavy Ion Inertial Fusion . In: Reinhard Stock (Ed.): Encyclopedia of Nuclear Physics and its Applications . Wiley-VCH, Weinheim 2013, ISBN 978-3-527-40742-2 , chapter 24.
  • Ingo Hofmann: Space Charge Physics for Particle Accelerators . Springer International, Cham 2017, ISBN 978-3-319-62156-2 .

Human rights

  • Ingo Hofmann: The situation of the Bahá'ís as reflected in the human rights obligations of Iran . In: Thomas Schirrmacher; Max Klingberg (Hrsg.): Year book religious freedom . Verlag für Kultur und Wissenschaft, Bonn 2015, ISBN 978-3-86269-112-8 , pp. 96–105 ( online at the Martin Bucer Seminar [PDF]).

Web links

physics

Human rights activities

Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ http://www.aps.org/programs/honors/fellowships/archive-all.cfm?initial=&year=&unit_id=&institution=
  3. ^ F. Fiori, Z. Zhou: Sustainability of the Chinese nuclear expansion: The role of ADS to close the nuclear fuel cycle. In: Progress in Nuclear Energy. 83, 2015, p. 123, doi : 10.1016 / j.pnucene.2015.03.004 .
  4. ↑ ICFA Beam Dynamics Panel website
  5. ↑ ICFA website
personal data
SURNAME Hofmann, Ingo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physicist and human rights activist
DATE OF BIRTH 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Senftenberg