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Prof. Dr. rer. nat. habil. Friedrich Konrad Röpke

Current Position

Full Professor (W3) of Theoretical Astrophysics at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Germany

Head of the research group Physics of Stellar Objects at the Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies

Employment:

January 2011 – February 2015: Professor (W2) of Astrophysics at the Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, Germany

June 2008 – December 2010: Head of an Emmy Noether Research Group at the Max-Planck-Institut für Astrophysik, Garching, Germany

March 1, 2006 – March 31, 2007: Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics (UC Lick Observatory), University of California, Santa Cruz, USA

July 2003 – May 2008: Postdoctoral fellow at the Max-Planck-Institut für Astrophysik, Garching, Germany

Education and Academic Record

Venia Legendi:
Privatdozent (private docent) at the Technische Universität München since January 2, 2009

Habilitation:
received on July 9, 2008 from the Technische Universität München, Germany
Habilitation thesis: “Thermonuclear Supernovae”

Graduate Studies:
July 2000 – July 2003 doctoral candidate at the Max-Planck-Institut für Astrophysik
Doctoral thesis: “On the stability of thermonuclear flames in Type Ia supernova explosions”
Advisor: Prof. Dr. W. Hillebrandt
Doctoral degree (Dr. rer. nat.) from Technische Universität München, July 28, 2003

Diploma:
April 18, 2000 from the Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Germany
Thesis: “Thermodynamics of rotating objects in gravitation theory” (in German)
Advisor: Prof. Dr. G. Neugebauer

University Education:
Student of physics at the Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Germany, beginning in October 1994
and at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville VA, USA (1997/1998)

Honors:

ARCHES – Award for Research Cooperation and High Excellence in Science (2010) (together with Avishay Gal-Yam, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel)

Emmy Noether Programme of the German Research Foundation (2007), providing funds for establishing own research group

Professional Services

Referee for Nature, The Astrophysical Journal, The Astrophysical Journal Letters, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Astronomy and Astrophysics and Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia

Reviewer for the German Research Foundation (DFG)

Reviewer for the NASA Astrophysics Theory Program

Reviewer for the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation

Reviewer for the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO)

Reviewer for the Israel Science Foundation (ISF)

Professional Memberships

Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft (German Physical Society)

International Astronomical Union

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