Thomas Tauris#
| Membership Number: | 5313 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | EARTH & COSMIC SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2020 |
| Main Country of Residence: | DENMARK |
| Homepage(s): | https://homes.m-tech.aau.dk/~tauris/ |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-3865-7265 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2022 - Professor, Aalborg University
- 2018 - 2022 Professor, Aarhus University (Honorary professor since 2016)
- 2010 − 2018 Staff /Visiting Research Prof. /Prof., Univ of Bonn /Max Planck Inst. for Radio Astronomy
- 2007 − 2010 External Associate Professor, Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen
- 2003 − 2010 International Baccalaureate (IB) teacher in physics/math at Herlufsholm Skole
- 2002 − 2003 Assistant Professor, Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen
- 2000 − 2002 Research Fellow, NORDITA (Nordic Institute for Theoretical Physics)
- 1997 − 2000 Marie Curie Fellow, University of Amsterdam (individual EU research grant)
Fields of Scholarship
- Physics of compact objects: neutron stars, black holes and white dwarfs
- Formation and evolution of binaries containing compact objects
- Binary and millisecond radio pulsars
- Stellar evolution in binaries
- Gravitational wave sources
- X-ray binaries
- Supernovae
- Population synthesis
Honours and Awards
- 2019 AIAS Senior Fellowship, Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies, Aarhus University
- 2016 Lehrpreisträger, Dept. Phys. & Astro., Uni. Bonn, 1st prize award winner for best teaching
- 2016 Honorary Professor, Aarhus University
- 2003 NorFA Visiting Professor. Awarded but declined.
- 2000 NORDITA Fellow
- 1997 Marie Curie Research Fellow
