Heino Falcke
Also known as: Heino D. Falcke
Radboud University Nijmegen, University of Bonn
Research areas: Physics and Astronomy · Nuclear and High Energy Physics · Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena · Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations · Radio Astronomy Observations and Technology
0000-0002-2526-6724
About
2007: Professor, Radboud University, Nijmegen, NL
2003: International Project Scientist LOFAR. ASTRON, Dwingeloo, NL
2003: temp. Prof., I. Physikalischen Institut , Universität zu Köln, Germany
2002: adjunct professor, Katholieke Universiteit, Nijmegen
2001: Privatdozent (lecturer), RFW University, Bonn, Germany
1999: Staff scientist, Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie (MPIfR), Bonn, Germany
1999: Visiting Professor, Steward Observatory, Tucson, Arizona
1995: Research Associate, University of Maryland, College Park
1994: Max-Planck Stipendiary, MPIfR Bonn
1992: Research assistant, MPIfR Bonn
2000: Ludwig-Biermann-prize, Astronomische Gesellschaft (AG)
2006: Visiting Miller Professor, University of California, Berkeley
2006: Academy Award, Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften (former Prussian Academy of Sciences)
2008: European Research Council Advanced Grant (ERC AG)
2011: NWO Spinoza Award (Netherlands)
2021: Henry Draper Medal of the National Academy of Sciences
2021: Amaldi Medal (European Prize for Gravitation) by the Italian Society of General Relativity and Gravitation
2021: R.M. Petrie Prize Lecture by the Canadian Astronomical Society
2020: Group Achievement Award of the Royal Astronomical Society (as member of the Event Horizon Telescope collaboration)
2020: Einstein Medal, together with S. Doeleman on behalf of the EHTC, Albert Einstein Gesellschaft (Bern, postponed)
2022: Honorary Doctorate, University Nova Gorica
2020: Breakthrough Prize for Fundamental Physics by the Breakthrough Foundation and the Bruno Rossi Prize 2020 of the American Astronomical Society (as member of the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration)
2019: 19th Hintze lecturer, University Oxford
2019: Academy lecture & medal, Akademie der Wissenschaften, Heidelberg
2016: Knight in the order of the Netherlands Lion
2015: Hermesdorfprijs Internationaal, Radboud University Nijmegen
2014: Appointed member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW)
Employment
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Radboud University Nijmegen Professor2007 - Present
Education
- 1992 - 1994
Projects & Funding
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Publications (267)
- Particle Creation in a Cosmological Background in Analogy to the Schwinger Effect Save
- The Northern High Time Resolution Universe pulsar survey Save
- The Northern High Time Resolution Universe pulsar survey Save
- The core-shift of Sagittarius A* as a discriminant between disk and jet emission models with millimeter very long baseline interferometry Save
- Long-term Astrometric Monitoring of the Galactic Center Magnetar PSR J1745−2900 Save
- An upper limit to the lifetime of stellar remnants from gravitational pair production Save
- Wondrak, van Suijlekom, and Falcke reply Save
- Testing the existence of event horizons against rotating reflecting surfaces Save
- Gravitational Pair Production and Black Hole Evaporation Save
- Interactions between the Jet and Disk Wind in Nearby Radio-intermediate Quasar III Zw 2 Save
- The road toward imaging a black hole: A personal perspective Save
- The Nature of Black Hole Shadows Save
- Persistent Non-Gaussian Structure in the Image of Sagittarius A* at 86 GHz Save
- Black hole parameter estimation with synthetic very long baseline interferometry data from the ground and from space Save
- RAPTOR Save
- Deep Horizon: A machine learning network that recovers accreting black hole parameters Save
- Modeling non-thermal emission from the jet-launching region of M 87 with adaptive mesh refinement Save
- ALMA Observations of the Terahertz Spectrum of Sagittarius A* Save
- Millimeter-Wave Monitoring of Active Galactic Nuclei with the Africa Millimetre Telescope Save
- Simulations of imaging the event horizon of Sagittarius A* from space Save