Volker Springel
Volker Springel is a German astrophysicist. He is Director of Computational Astrophysics at the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics in Garching.[1]
Springel earned a degree in Physics from the University of Tübingen in 1996 and completed his PhD at LMU Munich in 1999.[1] He is known in particular for his contributions to large-scale cosmological simulations; his 2005 paper on the Millennium Simulation has been cited more than 3,000 times and is the most cited astronomy paper ever published in Nature.[2] In 2020, he shared the Gruber Prize in Cosmology with Lars Hernquist for their efforts to improve computational simulations.[2] He won the Leibniz Prize the following year.[3]
References
[edit]- 1 2 "Volker Springel". Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics. Retrieved 17 May 2025.
- 1 2 "2020 Gruber Cosmology Prize". Gruber Foundation. Retrieved 17 May 2025.
- ↑ "ORIGINS Scientist Volker Springel honored with the 2021 Leibniz Prize". ORIGINS Excellence Cluster. 12 November 2020. Retrieved 17 May 2025.
External links
[edit]- Volker Springel publications indexed by Google Scholar
