Friedrich-Karl Thielemann#
| Membership Number: | 4103 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | PHYSICS & ENGINEERING SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2015 |
| Main Country of Residence: | SWITZERLAND |
| Homepage(s): | https://physik.unibas.ch/en/people/emeriti/prof-emer-f-k-thielemann/ |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2017 Part-time employment at the GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Reseach (Darmstadt)
- 2017 Professor Emeritus
- Since April 1994 Full professor, Department of Physics, University of Basel
- September 1991 - March 1994 Associate Professor, Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Harvard University
- September 1986 - August 1991 Assistant Professor, Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Harvard University
- January 1985 - August 1986 Visiting Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department of Astronomy, University of Illinois
- April 1982 - December 1985 Postdoc, Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics, Garching, Germany
- April 1981 - March 1982 Postdoc, Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics, Heidelberg, Germany
- April 1980 - March 1981 Otto Hahn Fellow of the Max Planck Society
- (April - August 1980 Enrico Fermi Institute, University of Chicago
- September 1980 - March 1981, Kellogg Radiation Laboratory, Caltech)
Fields of Scholarship
- Explosive events in astrophysics (novae, X-ray / Gamma-ray bursts, type Ia / core collapse supernovae, neutron star mergers)
- Generation of elements and isotopes in stable or explosive (nuclear) burning of matter,
- Evolution of galaxies
- Nuclear reactions
- Equation of state at supranuclear densities and high temperatures
- Theoretical and computational astrophysics
- Big bang nucleosynthesis
- Stellar evolution
- Properties of nuclei far from stability
- Compact objects (white dwarfs, neutron stars, black holes)
Honours and Awards
- 2021 Honorary member of the Swiss Physical Society
- 2020 Karl Schwarzschild Medal
- Since January 2013 ERC Advanced Grant FISH "FaInt Supernovae and Hypernovae"
- Since January 2013 president of the platform Mathematics, Astronomy, Physics (MAP) of the Swiss Academy of Natural Sciences
- 2012 Lise Meitner Prize of the European Physical Society (jointly with Karlheinz Langanke)
- 2009 Humboldt Research Award of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
- 2008 Hans A. Bethe Prize of the American Physical Society
- Since 2008 Member of the Commission for Astronomy of the Swiss Academy of Natural Sciences
- 2007 GENCO Membership Award of the Exotic Nuclei Community (GSI Darmstadt)
- 1998 Fellow of The American Physical Society
- 1997 - 2001 Distinguished Visiting Scientist, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
- 1995 Visiting Professorship, University of Torino, Italy
- 1992 JSPS Fellowship at the University of Tokyo
- 1986 Milton Fund Award, Harvard University
- 1979 Otto Hahn Medal of the Max Planck Society
