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 Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research.[1]
2008 Stöcker was elected Vice-President of Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft Deutscher Forschungszentren for "Struktur der Materie", reelected 2010.
Honors
- „Judah M. Eisenberg Professor Laureatus für Theoretische Physik“, Goethe Universität
- Emilio Segre Lecturer, Tel Aviv University
- Guest Professor University of Science and Technology of China, USTC Hefei, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Doktor honoris causae, Russian Academie of Science, RAS, Moscow
- Doktor honoris causae, University of Bucharest
- Fellow, Institute of Physics, London
- Member, Deutsche Akademie der Technikwissenschaften, acatech, München
- Member, Academia Europaea, London
- Member, Polytechnische Gesellschaft in Frankfurt am Main
- Member of the Scientific Advisory Council, Gutenberg Forschungskolleg (GFK), Universität Mainz
- Chair, Stiftungsrat, Beilstein Institute, Frankfurt
- Member, Council Kassel - Stiftung, Frankfurt
- Member, Council Puschmann Stiftung, Frankfurt
- Member of the Advisory Board of the H. & E. Kleber Foundation, Frankfurt
- Hessischer Verdienstorden
According to Google Scholar, Horst Stöcker's more than 500 scientific articles and books have been cited more than 35 000 times. With a Hirschindex of h=81 he is among the "Top 200 Highly Cited Researchers" in the gobal ranking 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.
Books and Publications
- Walter Greiner, Ludwig Neise, Horst Stöcker: Thermodynamik und Statistische Mechanik. Harri Deutsch, Thun und Frankfurt am Main 1993, ISBN 3-8171-1262-9
- Horst Stöcker: Mathematische Formeln für die technische Ausbildung und Praxis, Deutsch (Harri) 1995, ISBN 3-8171-1440-0
- Horst Stöcker: Mathematik - Physik - Chemie, Das Basiswissen, 3 Bde., Deutsch (Harri) 2000, ISBN 3-8171-1633-0
- Horst Stöcker: Taschenbuch mathematischer Formeln und moderner Verfahren, Deutsch (Harri) 2003, ISBN 3-8171-1701-9
- Horst Stöcker: Taschenbuch der Physik, Deutsch (Harri) 2004, ISBN 3-8171-1720-5
References
- ↑ Organization overview Archived 27 December 2010 at WebCite
External links
- Literature by and about Horst Stöcker in the German National Library catalogue
- Webseite von Horst Stöcker auf uni-frankfurt.de
- Highly Cited Researcher - ISI's Science Citation Index
- Internetpräsenz FIGSS
- Internetpräsenz FIAS
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