Johanna Stachel
Johanna Barbara Stachel (born 3 December 1954 in Munich) is a German nuclear physicist. She is a professor in experimental physics at the University of Heidelberg (Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg). Stachel is a former president of the German Physical Society (DPG).[1][2][3]
Johanna Stachel | |
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Stachel in her office at Heidelberg University (2016) | |
| Born | 3 December 1954 Munich, Germany |
| Education | Ph.D. |
| Alma mater | Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz |
| Spouse | Peter Braun-Munzinger |
| Awards | Order of Merit (1999) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Physics |
| Institutions | Heidelberg University |
| Thesis | Die neutronenreichen Rutheniumisotope, ein Übergangsgebiet zwischen sphärischen und asymmetrisch deformierten Kernen (1982) |
| Notes | |
Early life and education edit
Johanna Stachel completed secondary education in 1972 at the Spohn Gymnasium in Ravensburg. She studied physics and chemistry at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zürich) and received a degree from the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz in 1978.[4] In 1982 she obtained a doctorate in physics from the same university.[5][6]
Career edit
From 1983 to 1996, Stachel studied and worked at the State University of New York (SUNY) at Stony Brook and Brookhaven National Laboratory where she met her future husband professor Peter Braun-Munzinger.[7] In 1996 she was named professor at the University of Heidelberg. Stachel was spokesperson of the CERN SPS experiment CERES/NA45 and directed the developed the ALICE Transition Radiation Detector.[6]
Stachel was elected President of the German Physical Society for a two-year term starting in 2012. Her two primary priorities as president were first to defend basic research by showing its importance and promote physics education in schools by improving the training of physics teachers and the standards across German schools.[8]
During her career, she has delivered over 150 lectures at international workshops and conferences and has participated in over 100 seminars and colloquia.
Research interests edit
Stachel's research focuses on understanding relativistic heavy-ion collisions and quark-gluon plasma. She is member of the LHC ALICE Collaboration at CERN in Geneva. Stachel is also interested in developing detectors that are needed to carry out these experiments in particle physics.[9][10]
Offices and honorary offices edit
Among her academic responsibilities are:
- From 2003 to 2005 she was dean of the faculty of Physics and Astronomy of the University of Heidelberg.[11] Until 2012, she continued to serve as vice-dean.[12][13]
- Associate editor for the journal Nuclear Physics A.[14]
- Membership of the Advisory Board of the Wilhelm and Else Heraeus Foundation.[15]
- Membership of the University Council of the Vienna University of Technology starting in 2018 for a 5-year term.[16]
- International councilor with the American Physical Society[6] from 2016–2019.
On 28 March 2014 she received the honorary membership of the Physikalischen Verein, Frankfurt,[17] where she is listed along with Heinrich Hertz, Albert Einstein and Otto Stern.
Honors and awards edit
- 1986: Sloan Research Fellowship[18]
- 1988: Presidential Young Investigator Award[19]
- 1996: Fellow of the American Physical Society[20]
- 1998: Member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities[21]
- 1999: Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
- 2001: Lautenschläger Research Prize[22]
- 2012: Member of the Academia Europaea[23]
- 2014: Lise Meitner Prize[24][25]
- 2014: Full member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities[26]
- 2015: Member of the Academy of Sciences Leopoldina[27]
- 2017/18: Lise Meitner Lecture in Vienna[28][29][30]
- 2019: Stern-Gerlach-Medal[31][32][7]
- 2021: Officers Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
References edit
- ^ "Johanna Stachel – Munzinger Biographie". www.munzinger.de. Retrieved 9 May 2020.
- ^ "Johanna Stachel ist Einsteins Erbin". Der Tagesspiegel Online (in German). Retrieved 11 May 2020.
- ^ "Prof. Johanna Stachel". www.physi.uni-heidelberg.de. Retrieved 8 May 2020.
- ^ "Curriculum Vitae Prof. Dr.Johanna Stachel" (PDF). Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften Leopoldina. Retrieved 11 May 2020.
- ^ Stachel, Johanna (1982). Die neutronenreichen Rutheniumisotope, ein Übergangsgebiet zwischen sphärischen und asymmetrisch deformierten Kernen [Neutron-rich ruthenium isotope, a transition domain between spherically and asymmetrically deformed nuclei]. Mainz: Mainz Univ., Dissertation.
- ^ a b c "Johanna Stachel". www.aps.org. Retrieved 11 October 2018.
- ^ a b Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft (6 May 2019). "Stern-Gerlach-Medaille 2019 – Interview: Prof. Dr. Johanna Stachel and Prof. Dr. Peter Braun-Munzinger". YouTube. Retrieved 11 May 2020.
- ^ Schubert, Frank (16 April 2012). "Johanna Stachel ist Einsteins Erbin". Der Tagesspiegel Online (in German). ISSN 1865-2263. Retrieved 7 October 2018.
- ^ "Professor Johanna Stachel discusses the effort of German physicists in the ALICE experiment at the CERN Large Hadron Collider". SciTech Europa. 3 September 2018. Retrieved 7 October 2018.
- ^ Garner, Courtney (3 September 2018). "Professor Johanna Stachel discusses the effort of German physicists in the ALICE experiment at the CERN Large Hadron Collider". SciTech Europa. Retrieved 11 May 2020.
- ^ . 8 October 2003. Archived from the original on 8 October 2003. Retrieved 11 May 2020.
- ^ . 14 August 2006. Archived from the original on 14 August 2006. Retrieved 11 May 2020.
- ^ "Universitätsrat" (PDF). Jahresbericht (in German). 2011: 16. 13 June 2012.
- ^ . Archived from the original on 28 July 2016.
- ^ "Stiftungsorgane: Wilhelm und Else Heraeus-Stiftung". www.we-heraeus-stiftung.de. from the original on 17 March 2019. Retrieved 11 May 2020.
- ^ "University council". www.tuwien.at. 26 February 2020. from the original on 16 February 2020. Retrieved 11 May 2020.
- ^ Deiss, Bruno (7 April 2014). "Neues Ehrenmitglied des Physikalischen Vereins" (PDF). UniReport (in German). 47 (2): 10.
- ^ "90 Scientists Win Research Grants". The New York Times. 9 March 1986. Retrieved 8 October 2018.
- ^ Stachel, Johanna. . Grantome. Archived from the original on 9 May 2020.
- ^ "APS Fellow Archive". www.aps.org. from the original on 9 May 2020. Retrieved 9 May 2020.
- ^ "Mitglied – Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften". www.bbaw.de. Retrieved 9 May 2020.
- ^ "Prof. Dr. Johanna Stachel awardedLautenschläger Research Prize" (PDF). University of Heidelberg press release. 5 September 2001. (PDF) from the original on 9 May 2020. Retrieved 9 May 2020.
- ^ "Academy of Europe: Stachel Johanna". www.ae-info.org. from the original on 28 March 2019. Retrieved 9 May 2020.
- ^ "EPS honours CERN's heavy-ion researchers | CERN". home.cern. Retrieved 8 October 2018.
- ^ . home.cern. September 2014. Archived from the original on 22 June 2016. Retrieved 8 October 2018.
- ^ "HAW members since 1909". www.haw.uni-heidelberg.de. from the original on 14 December 2019. Retrieved 9 May 2020.
- ^ Johanna Stachel, Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, retrieved 5 January 2019
- ^ "EPS honours ALICE's heavy-ion researchers". CERN Courier. 54 (7): 31. 2017.
- ^ "Zurück zum Anfang aller Dinge". www.oeaw.ac.at (in German). Retrieved 10 September 2019.
- ^ Lise-Meitner-Lecture 2017 – Interview mit Prof. Dr. Johanna Stachel, retrieved 10 September 2019
- ^ "Prestigious Stern-Gerlach Medal goes to Peter Braun-Munzinger and Johanna Stachel". GSI. Retrieved 11 May 2020.
- ^ "Heidelberg: Physiker ehren Johanna Stachel". www.rnz.de (in German). Retrieved 11 May 2020.
External links edit
- "Prof. Johanna Stachel". Physikalisches Institut Heidelberg. Retrieved 23 July 2023.
- Biography at American Physical Society
- Johanna Stachel publications indexed by Inspire-HEP