CV Werner Hofmann
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D-69117
Heidelberg, Saupfercheckweg 1, or |
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D-69029
Heidelberg, P.O. Box 103980 |
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Phone
+49-6221-516-330, Fax +49-6221-516-603 |
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Email
Werner.Hofmann “at” mpi-hd.mpg.de |
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Nationality |
German |
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Date and
Place of Birth |
November
11, 1952, Baden-Baden, Germany |
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Education |
1971-1977
Study of physics at Karlsruhe University |
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Dipl.
Phys. Karlsruhe University (1974) |
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Ph.D.
Karlsruhe University (1977) |
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Habilitation
in physics, Dortmund University (1980) |
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Career/Employment |
1975-1977
Scientific Employee, Univ. Karlsruhe |
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1978-1981
Scientific Assistant, Univ. Dortmund |
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1981-1982
Heisenberg Scholarship at Univ. Dortmund |
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1982-1983
Heisenberg Scholarship at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory (LBL), Berkeley |
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1984-1985
Assistant Professor, Univ. Berkeley, and Associate Faculty Scientist (LBL) |
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1985-1987
Associate Professor, Univ. Berkeley, and Faculty Senior Scientist (LBL) |
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1987-1988
Professor, Univ. Berkeley, and Faculty Senior Scientist (LBL) |
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since
1988 Director and Scientific Member, Max Planck Institute for Nuclear
Physics, Heidelberg |
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Administration
and Committee Service |
Managing
Director, Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics 1991-1993 and 1999-2001 |
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Chair
of the Chemistry, Physics and Technology Section of the Max Planck Society,
2008-2011; Deputy chair 2007/2008, and 2011/2012 |
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Member
of Board of Trustees of the Tschira Foundation, since 2010 |
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Member
of the ApPEC (Astroparticle Physics European Coordination) Scientific
Advisory Committee (2008-2011) |
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Deputy
chair (2005-2007) and chair
(2008-2010) of the BMBF Gutachterausschuss "Erdgebundene Astrophysik und
Astroteilchenphysik" |
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Member
of the German Committee for Astroparticle Physics (KAT), 2004-2010 |
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Member
of Scientific/Technical Council of Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, and Chair of
the Advisory Board "Structure of Matter", 2002-2008 |
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...
and other committees |
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Spokesperson
of the CTA Collaboration; former Spokesperson of the H.E.S.S. Collaboration (until 2012); former
Spokesperson of PEP4-TPC Collaboration and former Chair of the Collaboration
Boards of LHCb and HERA-B Collaborations |
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Awards |
Rossi
Prize 2010 of the High Energy Astrophysics Division of the American
Astronomical Society, with F. Aharonian, H. Völk and the H.E.S.S. Collaboration
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Descartes
Research Prize 2006 of the European Commission for the H.E.S.S. Collaboration |
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Memberships |
Heidelberg
Academy of Sciences, since 2010 |
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German
Physical Society |
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American
Physical Society |
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Research
Areas |
High-energy
gamma-ray astrophysics (with the H.E.S.S. experiment, and earlier with HEGRA,
CRT; strongly involved in planning the future CTA facility) |
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Physics
of heavy quarks, CP violation (participation in LHCb experiment and earlier
with DASP II, ARGUS (DESY), HERA-B (DESY)) |
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Development
of instrumentation for high-energy physics and high-energy astrophysics:
calorimetry (1974-1982), silicon detector systems (since 1988), detection
systems for high-energy cosmic gamma rays (since 1988) |
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Neutrinoless
double beta decay (with the GERDA experiment (LNGS)) |
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QCD,
quark and gluon fragmentation, physics of jets (1974-1990, with the SFM
(CERN), DASP II (DESY), PEP4-TPC (SLAC) experiments) |
