Professor Dr. Dr. h.c. Hermann Nicolai
Director emeritus at Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics
Address:
Max-Planck-Institut für Gravitationsphysik
(Albert-Einstein-Institut)
Am Mühlenberg 1
D-14476 Potsdam
GERMANY
Phone: +49 331 567-7216
Fax: +49 331 567-7297
E-mail: hermann.nicolai@aei.mpg.de
Curriculum Vitae
Personal Data
| Date of Birth: | July 11, 1952 |
| Nationality: | German |
Education
| 1983 | German habilitation at Heidelberg University |
| 1978 | PhD at Karlsruhe University |
| 1975 | Diploma in Physics, Karlsruhe University |
Academic Appointments
| Since 8/2020 | Director emeritus at Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute) |
| 1997-2020 | Director at Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute) |
| 1988-1997 | Professor (C4) of Theoretical Physics, University of Hamburg |
| 1986-1988 | Professor (C3) of Theoretical Physics, University of Karlsruhe |
| 1979-1986 | Fellow and staff member of CERN, Geneva |
| 1978-1979 | Assistant (Theoretical Physics), University of Heidelberg |
Scientific awards/honours/memberships (selection)
| 2017 | |
| 2016 | Honorary Doctor of Technology, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden |
| 2013 | |
| Since 2011 | Member of the External Advisors Committee of the Theory Unit at CERN, Switzerland |
| 2010 | Einstein Medal 2010, awarded by the Albert Einstein Society Bern, Switzerland |
Member of the International Advisory Board of the International Solvay Institutes for Physics and Chemistry, Brussels, Belgium | |
Member (representative of the Max Planck Society) of the Conseil d´Administration of the Institute des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques (I.H.E.S.), Bures-sur-Yvette, France | |
| Speaker, International Max Planck Research School (IMPRS) for Geometric Analysis, Gravitation and String Theory | |
| Since 2006 | Editor-in-Chief of the journal "General Relativity and Gravitation" |
| Since 2005 | Member of the Governing Board of the School of Theoretical Physics, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, Dublin, Ireland |
| Since 2005 | Honorary Professor, Leibniz Universität Hannover |
| Since 1999 | Honorary Professor, Humboldt University Berlin |
| 1998-2003 | Editor in Chief for the IOPP Journal "Classical and Quantum Gravity" |
1997-2002 | Member of the Editorial Board of "Communications in Mathematical Physics" |
1993-1995 | Member of the Scientific Council DESY |
| 1991 | Otto Klung Prize for Physics |