Rolf-Dieter Heuer#
| Membership Number: | 4410 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | PHYSICS & ENGINEERING SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2011 |
| Main Country of Residence: | FRANCE |
Present and Previous Positions
- since April 2016 President of the Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft
- since November 2015 member of the High Level Group of Scientific Advisors (SAM)
- 2009 - 2015 Director General, CERN
- 2004 - 2009 Research Director, DESY
- 1998 Full professorship for experimental physics at the University of Hamburg
- 1984 - 1998 Staff member at CERN
- 1978 - 1983 Research physicist at the University of Heidelberg
Fields of Scholarship
- Construction and operation of large particle detector systems for studying electron-positron collisions
- Management of large institutes and collaborations
Honours and Awards
- nineteen Honorary Doctorates, inter alia
- 2011 by the University of Victoria, Canada
- 2011 by the Universities of Liverpool and Birmingham
- 2012 by the University of Glasgow
- 2012 by the University of Melbourne
- 2012 Edison Volta Prize
- 2015 Recipient of the Grand Cross 1st class of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
- 2015 Honorary doctorate by the University of Belgrade
- 2016 Chevalier de la légion d’honneur, France
- Member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, Germany
- Member of Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences, Cracow, Poland
- Corresponding Member, Heidelberg Akademie der Wissenschaften, Germany
- Corresponding Member, Hamburg Akademie der Wissenschaften, Germany
- Honorary Consul, AGH University, Cracow, Poland
- Honorary Member of the European Physical Society
