Johann Rafelski#
| Membership Number: | 5611 |
| Membership type: | FOREIGN |
| Section: | PHYSICS & ENGINEERING SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2021 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED STATES |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.physics.arizona.edu/~rafelski/ |
| ORCID: | 0000-0001-8217-1484 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 1987 Professor of Physics The University of Arizona; additional appointments to the Applied Mathematics Program and Theoretical Astrophysics Program; also tenured in the Arizona Research Laboratory
- 1983 Chair of Theoretical Physics, University of Cape Town
- 1979 Associate Professor of Physics, JW Goethe University, Frankfurt
- 1977 Fellow, CERN, Geneva
- 1975 Junior Staff Member, Argonne National Laboratory, Chicago
- 1974 Postdoc, Argonne National Laboratory, Chicago
- 1973 Postdoc, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
Fields of Scholarship
- Particle cosmology
- Hadronization
- Strong field, critical acceleration, radiation reaction
- Physics with ultra-intense light pulses,relativistic plasma, and aneutronic fusion
- Vacuum structure and quark deconfinement and quark-gluon plasma
Honours and Awards
- 2013 Elected Fellow, American Physical Society
- 2018 - 2022 Elected to Faculty Senate University of Arizona
- Named Fulbright Fellow, Summers of 2019 to 2021, hosted by the Wigner Research Center, Budapest
