Wolfgang Baumjohann

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Wolfgang Baumjohann

Wolfgang Baumjohann (born August 9, 1950 in Hamm ) is an Austrian astrophysicist and director of the Institute for Space Research of the Austrian Academy of Sciences .

Life

Baumjohann studied physics from 1969 to 1975 and geophysics as a minor at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster , where he then worked as a research assistant at the Institute for Geophysics until 1983 and received his doctorate in 1981 . From 1984 to 1988 he received a Heisenberg grant at the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics (MPE) in Garching near Munich , where he also worked as a researcher until 2000. In addition , he completed his habilitation in geophysics in 1993 at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich , where he worked as a private lecturer until 2000 . In 2001, he moved to the Institute for Space Research in Graz as the successor to Willibald Riedler and, in 2004, succeeded Hans Sünkel as its director. He has also been an adjunct professor at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich since 2000 and an honorary professor at the Graz University of Technology since 2009 .

Baumjohann works with a focus on the fields of space plasma physics and planetary magnetospheres . He was partly responsible for numerous experiments in nine space missions. He is (co-) author of more than 600 papers in scientific journals and four books. He held several functions, some of them high, in international scientific bodies and committees.

Baumjohann was voted Scientist of the Year 2014 by the Club of Education and Science Journalists in Vienna . In view of the fact that the Rosetta mission 2014 was “undoubtedly the media science event of the year”, it was “these days the reliable ground station for information, the Austrian journalists with expertise, patience and perseverance the importance of the mission and the participation of the Graz citizen Institute for Space Research of the OeAW has explained ". He also received praise and recognition from the former science ministers Reinhold Mitterlehner and Karlheinz Töchterle , as well as from the infrastructure minister Alois Stöger . Under his direction, the Institute for Space Research helped develop five of the 21 measuring instruments, the MIDAS scanning probe microscope even being in charge. 2010 and 2015 he was selected by the newspaper Die Presse on Austrian of the Year in the category Research nominated.

He is married to the Japanese space researcher Rumi Nakamura, who also works at the Space Research Institute.

Awards (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ IWF: Institute for Space Research: History . Retrieved January 25, 2018.
  2. ↑ Oliver Lehmann: Wolfgang Baumjohann is scientist of the year. Education and Science Journalists' Club, January 7, 2017, accessed October 6, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Austrian of the year 2010 . Retrieved September 15, 2015.
  4. ↑ Austrian of the year 2015 . Retrieved September 15, 2015.
  5. ↑ Member entry by Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Baumjohann (with picture and CV) at the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina , accessed on June 29, 2016.
  6. ↑ Space researcher Baumjohann accepted into Academia Europaea. In: derStandard.at . Der Standard , September 27, 2017, accessed October 6, 2018 .
  7. ↑ Decoration of Honor awarded by the State of Styria. State of Styria , May 24, 2018, accessed October 6, 2018 .
  8. ↑ International award for space researcher Baumjohann. In: derStandard.at . Der Standard , October 2, 2018, accessed October 6, 2018 .
  9. ↑ Cardinal Innitzer Prize 2019 awarded to sociologist Acham. In: Kathpress .at. November 16, 2019, accessed November 16, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Baumjohann, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian space scientist and director of the Institute for Space Research of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Graz
DATE OF BIRTH August 9, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamm