Sibylle Günter

Sibylle Günter (center) 2012 in Hanover-Herrenhausen during an international conference on the limits of growth

Sibylle Günter (born April 20, 1964 in Rostock ) is a German theoretical physicist .

Life

Günter completed her physics studies at the University of Rostock in 1987 with a diploma and received her doctorate there in 1990 with a computational study of radiation from dense plasmas . After a time as a research assistant , she completed her habilitation in 1996 on the optical properties of dense plasmas and held lectures there until 2006, since 1998 on a C3 professorship and since 2001 on an unscheduled professorship. In 2006 she moved to the Technical University of Munich as an honorary professor .

Günter was 2000 as youngest woman as Director and Scientific Member of the Max Planck Society appointed and took over as the successor of Karl Lackner , the head of the department tokamak at the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics (IPP) . In 2011 she became Scientific Director of the IPP, succeeding Günther Hasinger . Günter is the scientific director of the Wendelstein 7-X nuclear fusion research facility .

Honors and memberships

2013: Cross of Merit on Ribbon of the Federal Republic of Germany
2015: Member of the German Academy of Science and Engineering (acatech)
2015: Member of the Academia Europaea
2017: Bavarian Order of Merit
2020: Member of the Leopoldina

Web links

Commons : Sibylle Günter - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Member Post by Sibylle Günter in the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
Literature by and about Sibylle Günter in the catalog of the German National Library
Videos by and about Sibylle Günter in the AV portal of the Technical Information Library
Günter at the IPP
Sibylle Günter in the database of renowned academics AcademiaNet
Entry on Sibylle Günter in the Catalogus Professorum Rostochiensium

Individual evidence

^ Nuclear fusion experiment succeeded on time online from December 10, 2015. Accessed December 10, 2015.
↑ IPP director appointed member of Academia Europaea, report from the MPI for Plasma Physics October 2015, accessed on October 28, 2015
↑ Ralf Empl: Bavarian Order of Merit: Awarded 2017. Accessed on July 13, 2017 .
↑ Isabella Milch: IPP director elected Leopoldina member. Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics, press release from June 25, 2020 from the Science Information Service (idw-online.de), accessed on June 25, 2020.

personal data
SURNAME	Günter, Sibylle
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German theoretical physicist
DATE OF BIRTH	April 20, 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH	Rostock

[1] Nuclear fusion experiment succeeded on time online from December 10, 2015. Accessed December 10, 2015.

[2] IPP director appointed member of Academia Europaea, report from the MPI for Plasma Physics October 2015, accessed on October 28, 2015

[3] Ralf Empl: Bavarian Order of Merit: Awarded 2017. Accessed on July 13, 2017 .

[4] Isabella Milch: IPP director elected Leopoldina member. Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics, press release from June 25, 2020 from the Science Information Service (idw-online.de), accessed on June 25, 2020.