Heino Falcke (born in Cologne in Germany in 1966) studied Physics at the Universities of Cologne and Bonn. He graduated in 1992, and received his PhD, summa cum laude, at the University of Bonn just two years later. Falcke has worked as a researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy in Bonn, at the University of Maryland and at the University of Arizona. He has previously received the Ludwig Biermann Award for ‘best young astronomer’ (2000); the Academy Prize from the Berlin Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities (2006); a Visiting Miller Professorship at UC Berkeley (2006); a European Research Council Advanced Investigator Grant (2008), and the Spinoza Award 2011 ``as best Dutch scientist´´ for his work on the shadow of the black hole in the Galactic Center and his work on LOFAR and astroparticle physics, e.g., the radio detection of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays.
Prof. Falcke is ‘key researcher’ at the Dutch Research School for Astronomy (NOVA) where he coordinates a network of Dutch astronomers who study the extremes of the universe and the physics of black holes, neutron stars and white dwarf stars. He is also an international project scientist at the Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy (ASTRON), the builders of the LOFAR giant radio telescope. At the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy in Bonn, Germany, he is participating in the Square Kilometre Array project, a continuation of LOFAR on a global scale.
Department of Astrophysics
Radboud University Nijmegen
Visiting address: Room HG 02.724, Huygens building, Heyendaalseweg 135, 6525 AJ Nijmegen
Postal address: P.O. Box 9010
6500 GL Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Tel:+31-24-3652020
Fax: +31-24-3652807
Email: falcke (at astro.ru.nl)
