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German particle physicist
Rolf-Dieter Heuer (German:
[ʁɔlf ˈdiːtɐ ˈhɔʏɐ] ; born 24 May 1948 in
Boll ) is a German
particle physicist . From 2009 to 2015 he was
Director General of
CERN
[3]
[4] and from 5 April 2016 to 9 April 2018 President of the German Physical Society (
Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft ).
[5] Since 2015 he has been Chair of the
European Commission 's
Group of Chief Scientific Advisors ,
[6] and since May 2017 he has been President of the
SESAME Council.
[7]
Biography
Heuer studied physics at the
University of Stuttgart . He then obtained his PhD 1977 at the
University of Heidelberg under Joachim Heintze for his study of neutral decay modes of the
Ψ(3686) .
His post-doc studies include the
JADE experiment at the electron-positron storage ring
PETRA at
DESY , and from 1984, at the
OPAL experiment at
CERN , where he also became spokesperson of the OPAL collaboration for many years.
Having been offered a full professorship for experimental physics at the
University of Hamburg , Heuer returned to DESY in 1998. In 2004, he was appointed DESY's Research Director.
In December 2007, the CERN research council announced that Heuer would become
CERN's Director General
[8]
[9] starting 1 January 2009, succeeding
Robert Aymar .
In 2011 Heuer gave a talk The High Energy Frontier Past, Present and Future at the international symposium on subnuclear physics held in Vatican City.
[10]
Since November 2015, Heuer has been a member of the
Group of Chief Scientific Advisors set up by the European Commission. In 2016 he became President of the
Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft , and in May 2017 the President of the
SESAME Council.
In 2022, Heuer was appointed a member of the African Synchrotron Initiative Think Tank with a view to set up a Pan-African project for the
African Light Source .
[11]
Awards
References
^ Heuer, R. D.; Rosenzweig, C.; Steltzner, A.; Blanpain, C.; Iorns, E.; Wang, J.; Handelsman, J.; Gowers, T.; De Bernardinis, B.; Fouchier, R. (2012).
"366 days: Nature's 10" . Nature . 492 (7429): 335–343.
Bibcode :
2012Natur.492..335. .
doi :
10.1038/492335a .
ISSN
0028-0836 .
PMID
23257862 .
^
"Prof. Dr. Rolf-Dieter Heuer" (PDF) . The Max Planck Society. Archived from
the original (PDF) on September 1, 2015. Retrieved 1 September 2015 .
^ Brumfiel, G. (2012).
"366 days: Nature ' s 10 – Rolf-Dieter Heuer: The Higgs diplomat" . Nature . Vol. 492, no. 7429. pp. 335–343.
Bibcode :
2012Natur.492..335. .
doi :
10.1038/492335a .
^
Heuer, R. -D. (2012).
"The future of the Large Hadron Collider and CERN" . Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences . 370 (1961): 986–994.
Bibcode :
2012RSPTA.370..986H .
doi :
10.1098/rsta.2011.0467 .
PMID
22253249 .
^
"CERN Director General to be President of the German Physical Society from 2016 to 2018" . DPG press release from. 2014-12-05.
^
"Members of the Group of Chief Scientific Advisors" . European Commission – European Commission . Retrieved 2020-08-22 .
^
"PRESIDENTS/VICE-PRESIDENTS OF COUNCIL – Synchrotron-light for Experimental Science and Applications in the Middle East" . SESAME . Retrieved 12 January 2022 .
^
"Council appoints Rolf-Dieter Heuer as CERN's next director-general...and looks to the LHC start-up and beyond" . CERN Courier . 48 (1): 5. January 2008.
^ Sutton, Christine (March 2009).
"CERN sets course for new horizons" . CERN Courier . 49 (2): 15–16.
^
Sánchez Sorondo, Marcelo ;
Zichichi, Antonino , eds. (2014).
"The High Energy Frontier Past, Present and Future by Rolf-Dieter Heuer" (PDF) . Subnuclear Physics: Past, Present and Future; Proceedings of the International Symposium, held 30 October - 2 November 2011, held in Vatican City . Scripta Varia, volume 119.
Pontifical Academy of Sciences . pp. 152–163.
^
"The African Synchrotron Initiative (ASI) Think Tank | The AAS" . www.aasciences.africa . Retrieved 2022-11-30 .
^
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b
"Rolf Heuer awarded prestigious French honour" . CERN People . CERN. 10 April 2024.
Further reading
"
Professor Dr. Rolf-Dieter Heuer Appointed as New Research Director ", DESY Press Release, Hamburg, 4 October 2004
"
Rolf-Dieter Heuer to be New CERN Director General ", DESY Press Releases, Hamburg, 14 December 2007
"
UNESCO and CERN: like hooked atoms; Jasmina Sopova meets Rolf-Dieter Heuer ", in "Chemistry and life", The UNESCO Courier , January–March, 2011, pp. 48–50.
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