Heinrich Völk#
| Membership Number: | 35 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | EARTH & COSMIC SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 1988 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
Present and Previous Positions
- since 2005 Scientific Member Emeritus, MPIK
- 1976 - 2004 Honorarpofessor at University of Heidelberg
- 1975 - 2004 Scientific Member and Director at Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics (MPIK), Heidelberg
- 1974 Dr. rer. nat habil. Physics, TUM, München
- 1965 Dr. rer. nat. Physics, LMU, München
Fields of Scholarship
- Physics of space plamas
- Cosmic ray physics
- High energy astrophysics
- Gamma ray astronomy
Honours and Awards
- 2010 Rossi Prize of the American Astronomical Society (together with Felix Aharonian, Werner Hofmann, and the H.E.S.S. Collaboration)
- 2006 Descartes Prize for scientific collaborative research of the EU for H.E.S.S. Collaboration
