Werner Hofmann (born November 11, 1952 in

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) is a German professor of

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. He is director of the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics in

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Life and work

Hofmann studied physics at the

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, completing his studies with a doctorate in 1977. In 1980 he wrote his Habilitationsschrift at the University of Dortmund. In 1981 he received a Heisenberg Scholarship and from 1984 to 1987 he worked as assistant and associate professor at the

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, where he was appointed full professor of physics in 1987. Since 1988 he is director at the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics in Heidelberg. In 1989 he also received an honorary professorship at the

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. Since 2010, he is a member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences. Hofmann's research areas include astroparticle physics, specifically high-energy gamma-ray astrophysics of detectors on the ground; CP violation; physics of heavy quarks; neutrinoless double beta decay; QCD; quark and gluon fragmentation; and physics of jets. He is senior scientist in the High Energy Stereoscopic System (H.E.S.S.) experiment in

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. According to Geoffrey C. Fox, Hofmann's 1981 monograph ''Jets of Hadrons'' is "thorough" and "well-written".

Awards

In 2010, he received, with the H.E.S.S. team, the Bruno Rossi Prize. In 2015, he was awarded the Marian Smoluchowski Emil Warburg Prize of the Polish Physical Society and the

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and in 2016 he received

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References

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CV Werner HofmannPARTICLE PHYSICS AND HIGH-ENERGY ASTROPHYSICSMax-Planck-Gesellschaft: Hon.-Prof. Werner Hofmann
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