Gerhard Haerendel#
| Membership Number: | 919 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | EARTH & COSMIC SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 1990 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.mpe.mpg.de/7587427/haerendel-gerhard |
Present and Previous Positions
- 1992 - 1996 Director of the MPE’s Aussenstelle (external laboratory) in Berlin
- 1987 Honorary Professor at the Technical University, Braunschweig
- 1972 - 2000 Director of the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics (MPE)
- 1969 Fellow of the Max Planck Institute for Physics and Astrophysics
Fields of Scholarship
- Discovery of dayside boundary layers
- Cometary interactions
- Boundary layers
- Solar flares
- Ambi-polar diffusion
- Origin of spicules
- Equatorial spread-F
- Reconnection
- Gamma-ray production in neutron stars
- Diffusion of trapped particles
- Auroral arcs
- Formation of ionospheric irregularities
- Wave-particle interactions
- Motion of plasma clouds
Honours and Awards
- 1982 - 1984 Chairman of the Council of the European Incoherent Scatter Radar (EISCAT)
- 1989 - 2002 Vice-President of the International Academy of Astronautics
- 1994 - 2002 President of the Committee on Space Research (COSPAR)
- 2003 - 2007 Chair of the European Space Science Committee (ESSC) of the European Science Foundation
- 2002 Theodore von Karman Award
- 2007 Allan D. Emil Memorial Award
- 2010 Jean Dominique Cassini Medal
