Horst Stöcker


Horst Stöcker is a German theoretical physicist.

Biography

Horst Stöcker studied physics, chemistry, mathematics and philosophy at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universität, Frankfurt am Main, where he got his Dr. phil.nat. in 1979.
He went on to GSI and - as a DAAD - postdoctoral fellow - to LBL, UC Berkeley.
Stöcker joined the faculty of physics and astronomy at Michigan State University and the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory, NSCL, in 1982.
1985 Stöcker moved on to a professorship for Theoretical Physics and Astrophysics at Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität in Frankfurt am Main, where Stöcker holds the Judah M. Eisenberg- endowed Chair since 2000.
From 2000 - 2003 Stöcker was elected Vicepresident at Goethe Universität, Frankfurt, for science, mathematics, computer science, IT and high performance computing, HPC, for the medical school and for the Universitäts - Klinikum der Goethe Universität. He was reelected 2006-2007.
Horst Stöcker is Senior Fellow and member of the executive board at the international interdisciplinary Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies - a private scientific foundation, Frankfurt am Main.
Horst Stöcker was the scientific chairman and CEO at the GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research, 2007 - 2015.
2008 Stöcker was elected Vice-President of :de:Helmholtz Gemeinschaft Deutscher Forschungszentren HGF|Helmholtz Gemeinschaft Deutscher Forschungszentren HGF for the Research Area "Struktur der Materie", 2008, and was reelected 2010-2012.
Horst Stöcker is co-founder of the
International Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research FAIR in Europe,
Helmholtz International Center for FAIR, HIC for FAIR,
Helmholtz Institut Jena, HIJ,
Helmholtz Institut Mainz, HIM,
Helmholtz International Graduate School, HiRe for FAIR,
FAIR Russia Research Center, FRRC Moscow,
Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, FIAS,
Frankfurt International Graduate School for Sciences, FIGSS,
FAIR Center for International Collaboration at CCNU, Wuhan.

Honors

According to Google Scholar, Horst Stöcker's more than 600 scientific articles and books have been cited more than 40 000 times. With a Hirsch index of h=90 he is among the "Top 200 Highly Cited Researchers" in the global ranking of the Institute for Scientific Information, ISI.
Stöcker holds several patents and is co-founder of several companies.
Horst Stöcker was a Guest professor at various distinct Universities and member of Scientific Councils at numerous Institutes worldwide, including the US Department of Energy, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, and University of California in United States; Riken and J-PARC in Japan; University of Science and Technology of China in China; CNRS, Université Louis Pasteur, Université de Nantes, GANIL, and Caen in France; and Tel Aviv University in Israel.

Publications