Horst Stöcker

Horst Stöcker (b. 16 December 1952 in Frankfurt, Germany) is a German theoretical physicist.

Horst Stöcker studied physics at the J.W. Goethe-Universität at Frankfurt am Main, where he got his Dr. phil.nat. in 1979.

He went on to GSI and - as a DAAD - postdoctoral fellow - to LBL, UC Berkeley.

Stöcker joined the faculty of physics and astronomy at Michigan State University and the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory, NSCL, in 1982.

1985 Stöcker moved on to a professorship for Theoretical Physics and Astrophysics at Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität in Frankfurt am Main, where Stöcker holds the Judah M. Eisenberg- endowed Chair since 2000.

From 2000 - 2003 and 2006-2007 Stöcker was elected Vicepresident at Goethe Universität, Frankfurt, for science, mathematics, computer science, IT & HPC, and the medical school.

Horst Stöcker is Senior Fellow and member of the executive board at the international interdisciplinary Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies (FIAS) - a private scientific foundation, Frankfurt am Main.

Horst Stöcker is the scientific chairman and CEO (director general) at the GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung.[1]

2008 Stöcker was elected Vice-President of Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft Deutscher Forschungszentren for "Struktur der Materie", reelected 2010.

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Honors

Horst Stöcker's more than 500 scientific articles have been cited more than 15 000 times, with a Hirschindex of 61 he is among the "Top 200 Highly Cited Researchers" of the Institute for Scientific Information, ISI.

Horst Stöcker is/was Guestprofessor at various distinct Universities and member of Scientific Councils, e.g. DOE, Brookhaven National Laboratory, LBNL, LLNL, University of California, USA, RIKEN and J-PARC, Tōkai, Japan, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, CNRS, Université Louis Pasteur, Université de Nantes, GANIL, SPIRAL II, Caen, France, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel.

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References

  1. ^ Organization overview Archived 27 December 2010 at WebCite

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