Wolfgang Hillebrandt#
| Membership Number: | 3767 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | EARTH & COSMIC SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2014 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.mpg.de/378961/astrophysik_wissM |
Present and Previous Positions
- 1991 - present Scientific Member (now Emeritus), MPI für Astrophysik, Garching
- 1997 - 2012 Director at the MPI für Astrophysik, Garching
- 1990 - present Honorary Professor for Theoretical Physics, TU München
- 1991 - 1994 Acting Director, MPI für Astrophysik, Garching
- 1985 - present Scientific Member; MPI für Physik und Astrophysik, Institut für Astrophysik, München/Garching
- 1978 - 1985 Research group leader, MPI für Physik und Astrophysik, Institut fürAstrophysik, München/Garching
- 1974 - 1978 Research associate, Institut für Kernphysik der TH Darmstadt
Fields of Scholarship
- Astrophysics: supernovae
- Astrophysics: stellar physics
- Astrophysics: stellar hydrodynamics
- Astrophysics: nucleosynthesis
- Astrophysics: neutron stars
- Nuclear Physics
Honours and Awards
- 2012 Lodewijk Woltjer Prize Lecture, European Astronomical Society, for fundamental contributions to the study of supernova explosions
- Member, Int. Advisory Board, Oskar Klein Centre, Stockholm
- Member, Scientific Council, Center for Astronomy, Heidelberg
- Since 2002 Editor, Lecture Notes in Physics
- 2003/2008 Member, DFG Grant Committee on Cooperative Research Centres
- 2003/2009 Chairman, Supernova Working Group, IAU
- 1998/2001 Member, Board of Directors of ECT*, Trento, Italy
- 1990/1993 Chairman of the Astronomischen Gesellschaft
- 1982 Physics Price, Deutschen Physikalischen Gesellschaft
- 1977 Academy Award, Akademie der Wissenschaften in Göttingen
