Karlheinz Langanke

Interview by Holger Klein with Langanke about heavy ion research , his career and FAIR .

Karlheinz Langanke (born February 13, 1951 in Bockum-Hövel ) is a German theoretical nuclear physicist .

Life

Langanke studied at the University of Münster and received his doctorate there in 1980 on quasi-molecular states, backward anomaly and isotope effect in core-core scattering . He then went to Caltech on a grant from the German Research Foundation , where he became a faculty member in 1992. In 1996 he became a professor at Aarhus University . Since 2005 he has been a professor at the TU Darmstadt . Until 2009 he was head of the theoretical core structure and astrophysics department at GSI Darmstadt . From 2006 to 2015 he was Research Director of GSI. Langanke has been the ad interim Scientific Managing Director of the GSI Helmholtz Center since March 2015; He will be succeeded on January 1, 2017 by Paolo Giubellino .

Theoretically, he dealt with nuclear structure and nuclear reactions with applications in nuclear astrophysics , for example in the nuclear processes occurring in supernovae.

Karlheinz Langanke is a member of numerous national and international science academies and committees. In 2012 he and Friedrich-Karl Thielemann received the Lise Meitner Prize for their essential contributions to the description of core processes in astrophysics that have changed our modern understanding of stellar evolution, supernova explosions and nucleosynthesis (laudation).

honors and awards

German University Software Prize 1990
Visiting professor of the Austrian government, 1998
Adjunct Professor at Aarhus University , 2005–2011
Adjunct Professor at Michigan State University , since 2006
Distinguished Visiting Scientist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory , 2002–2005
APS Outstanding Referee Award 2008
Elected member of the Academia Europaea , 2011
Honorary member of the Hellenic Nuclear Physics Society, 2011
Lise Meitner Prize of the European Physical Society 2012
Benjamin Lee Distinguished Professorship at the Asian Pacific Center for Theoretical Physics (APCTP) in Korea, 2015

Fonts

with Joachim Maruhn , Steven Koonin (editor): Computational Nuclear Physics . Vol. 1,2, Springer Verlag 1991, 1993 (in Vol. 2 with G. Blugt, H.-G. Reusch Microscopic description of nuclear collisions)
with H. Trautvetter, C. Rolfs : Low-energy nuclear physics and fundamental problems of nuclear astrophysics . Physikalische Blätter, Vol. 43, 1987, p. 89.
The core cluster model - current applications of an established theory . Physikalische Blätter, Vol. 48, 1992, p. 611.
with Claus Rolfs : Nucleosynthesis in homogeneous and inhomogeneous big bang models . Physikalische Blätter, Vol. 49, 1993, p. 31.
with Harold Friedrich: Microscopic description of nucleus-nucleus collisions . In Negele, Vogt: Advances in Nuclear Physics . Vol. 17, 1986, pp. 223-363
The third generation of nuclear physics with the microscopic cluster model , in Negele, Vogt (Ed.): Advances in Nuclear Physics . Vol. 21, 1994, pp. 85-226
with C. Barnes Nucleosynthesis in the big bang and in stars . In Negele, Vogt (Ed.): Advances in Nuclear Physics . Vol. 22, 1996, p. 173.
with DJ Dean, Steven Koonin: Shell model Monte Carlo Methods . Physics Reports, Vol. 278, 1997, p. 1, Arxiv ( Monte Carlo method in the shell model (nuclear physics) ).
with Gabriel Martinez-Pinedo: Nuclear weak interaction processes in stars . Reviews of Modern Physics, Vol. 75, 2003, pp. 819-862
with Aprahamian, Michael Wiescher : Nuclear structure aspects in nuclear astrophysics . Progress in nuclear and particle physics, Vol. 54, 2005, pp. 535-613
with KG Balasi, G. Martinez-Pinedo: Neutrino-nucleus reactions and their role for supernova dynamics and nucleosynthesis, Progr. Nucl. Part. Phys., 2015, Arxiv
with H.-Th. Janka, A. Marek, G. Martinez-Pinedo, B. Mueller: Theory of core collapse supernovae, Phys. Reports 442, 2007, pp. 38-74, Arxiv
with G. Martinez-Pinedo, JM Sampaio, DJ Dean, WR Hix, OEB Messer, A. Mezzacappa, M. Liebendoerfer, H.-Th. Janka, M. Rampp: Electron capture rates on nuclei and implications for stellar core collapse, Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 2003, 241102, Arxiv
with F.-K. Thielemann, F. Brachwitz, C. Freiburghaus, E. Kolbe, G. Martinez-Pinedo, T. Rauscher, F. Rembges, WR Hix, M. Liebendoerfer, A. Mezzacappa, K.-L. Kratz, B. Pfeiffer, K. Nomoto, S. Rosswog, H. Schatz, M. Wiescher: Element synthesis in stars, Progress Nucl. Part. Phys., 46, 2001, 5-22, Arxiv
with JM Sampaio, G. Martinez-Pinedo, E. Kolbe, DJ Dean: Electron capture rates for core collapse supernovae, Nucl. Phys. A 718, 2003, 440-442, Arxiv

Web links

Individual evidence

^ Resonator podcast of the Helmholtz Association : Heavy Ion Research (Volume 36, July 11, 2014)
^ Meitner Prize and Langanke and Thielemann

personal data
SURNAME	Langanke, Karlheinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German theoretical nuclear physicist
DATE OF BIRTH	February 13, 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH	Bockum-Hövel

[1] Resonator podcast of the Helmholtz Association : Heavy Ion Research (Volume 36, July 11, 2014)

[2] Meitner Prize and Langanke and Thielemann