Horst Stöcker

Horst Stöcker (born 1952) is a German theoretical physicist and Judah M. Eisenberg Professor Laureatus at the Goethe University Frankfurt working in nuclear physics and astrophysics.

Education and career After Abitur 1971, Stöcker studied physics, chemistry, mathematics and philosophy at the Goethe University Frankfurt, where he got his Dr. phil.nat. in 1979 under Walter Greiner. The title of the dissertation was Shock waves in nuclear matter – proof by circumstantial evidence.

He went on to GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research and – as a DAAD – postdoctoral fellow – to Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, UC Berkeley.

Horst Stöcker was the scientific chairman and CEO (director general) at the Darmstadt GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research, 2007–2015.

In 2008 Stöcker was elected vice-president of for the Research Area "Struktur der Materie", 2008, and was reelected 2010–2012.

Honors Professor Laureatus für Theoretische Physik, at Goethe University Frankfurt Doctor honoris causa of the Russian Academy of Sciences, RAS, Moscow, Russia Doctor honoris causa of the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna, Russia Doktor honoris causa of the University of Bucharest, Romania Fellow of the European Physical Society, EPS, London, Great Britain Fellow of the Institute of Physics, IoP, London, Great Britain Member, Deutsche Akademie der Technikwissenschaften, acatech, Munich Member, Academia Europaea, London, Great Britain Hessian Order of Merit

Stöcker published around 500 publications that were cited around 50,000 times, supervised around 50 doctoral students, and submitted 5 patents.

Publications Walter Greiner, Ludwig Neise, Horst Stöcker: . Harri Deutsch, Thun und Frankfurt am Main 1993, Horst Stöcker: , Deutsch (Harri) 1995, Horst Stöcker: , Deutsch (Harri) 2000, Horst Stöcker: , Deutsch (Harri) 2003, Horst Stöcker: , Deutsch (Harri) 2004,