Rolf-Dieter Heuer

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Rolf-Dieter Heuer
University of Heidelberg
Doctoral advisorJoachim Heintze

Rolf-Dieter Heuer (German:

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

Ψ(3686)
.

His post-doc studies include the

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

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

  1. PMID 23257862
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  2. ^ "Prof. Dr. Rolf-Dieter Heuer" (PDF). The Max Planck Society. Archived from the original (PDF) on September 1, 2015. Retrieved 1 September 2015.
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  5. ^ "CERN Director General to be President of the German Physical Society from 2016 to 2018". DPG press release from. 2014-12-05.
  6. ^ "Members of the Group of Chief Scientific Advisors". European Commission – European Commission. Retrieved 2020-08-22.
  7. ^ "PRESIDENTS/VICE-PRESIDENTS OF COUNCIL – Synchrotron-light for Experimental Science and Applications in the Middle East". SESAME. Retrieved 12 January 2022.
  8. ^ "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.
  9. ^ Sutton, Christine (March 2009). "CERN sets course for new horizons". CERN Courier. 49 (2): 15–16.
  10. ^ 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.
  11. ^ "The African Synchrotron Initiative (ASI) Think Tank | The AAS". www.aasciences.africa. Retrieved 2022-11-30.
  12. ^ a b "Rolf Heuer awarded prestigious French honour". CERN People. CERN. 10 April 2024.

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Business positions
Preceded by
Director General of CERN

2009–2015
Succeeded by