Ulf G. Meissner#
| Membership Number: | 2759 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | PHYSICS & ENGINEERING SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2010 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.itkp.uni-bonn.de/~meissner |
Present and Previous Positions
- Oct. 2003—Dec, 2013 Director at the Institut für Kernphysik at the Forschungszentrurn Jülich (IKP-3, Theoretical Nuclear Physics), Jülich, Germany
- Jan. 2003 - present Chair in Theoretical Nuclear Physics and Head of the Theory Department of the Helmholtz-Institute, Professor of Physics (C4) at the Universität Bonn
- Oct, 1996-Dec. 2002 Division Leader at the Institut für Kernphysik (Forschungszentrum Jülich), Jülich, and Professor of Physics (C3) at the Universität Bonn (Institut für Theoretische Kernphysik), Bonn, Germany
Fields of Scholarship
- Theoretical Physics-Hadron Physics/QCD
Honours and Awards
- March 1989: awarded the Heisenberg Research Fellowship from the "Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)
- September 1991: named M.J. Murdock fellow of the Institute of Nuclear Theory, University of Washington, Seattle, USA
- February 2008: named Outstanding Referee of the American Physical Society
- November 2009, elected as Fellow of the American Physical Society (Division of Nuclear Physics), “for leading the development of chiral perturbation theory with baryons, including many pioneering and successful predictions for the interactions of nucleons with photons, pions, and other nucleons.”
- October 2010, elected as member of Academia Europaea
