Horst Stöcker#
| Membership Number: | 2113 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | PHYSICS & ENGINEERING SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2001 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
Present and Previous Positions
- Emeritus from Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universitaet Frankfurt and GSI
- 2007 - 2015 Scientific director (now director general emeritus) at the GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung Gmbh.
- 1985 Professor of Theoretical Physics at Institut für Theoretische Physik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universität Frankfurt, Germany
- 1983 - 2003 Scientific Advisor and Visiting Professor at Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung, Germany
- 1982 - 1999 Scientific Consultant and Visiting Professor at University of California, Berkeley, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Nuclear Science Division
- 1982 - 1985 Assistant Professor at National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory and Department of Physics and Astronomy, Michigan State University
- 1979 - 1980 Scientist/ Research Associate at Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung, Germany
- 1979 Dr. phil. nat. Institut für Theoretische Physik, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Fields of Scholarship
- Relativistic heavy ion collisions and the nuclear equation of state
- Chiral symmetry and strange matter
- Quark-gluon-plasma
- Superheavy nuclei
- Hydrodynamics
- Cosmic rays
Honours and Awards
- 2009 Member of Acatec (Deutsche Akademie der Wissenschaften)
- 2008 Doctor Honoris Causa, Faculty of Physics, University of Bucharest, Romania
- 2004 Judah M. Eisenberg Chair "Professor Laureatus of Theoretical Physics", Endowed Chair for Theoretical Physics
- Highly Cited Scientist Awarded by Science Citation Index - ISI to Top 200 Quoted Researchers in Physics
- 2003 Senior Advisor Institute of Physics, London, Journal of Physics G
- 2002 Guest Professor Subatech, Universite de Nantes et Ecoles des Mines
- 2001 Fellow of FInstP, Institute of Physics, London, Chartered Physicist
- 2000 Member Academia Europea, Elected Outstanding Scientist
- 1998 - 2003 Honorary Editor at the Institute of Physics, London, Journal of Physics G
- 1980 - 1981 NATO-Fellow as an excellent young investigator, Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst
