Prof. Dr. Ulrich Walter Heinz

Profile

Academic positionEmeritus
Research fieldsTheoretical Physics
KeywordsThermische Quantenfeldtheorie, Relativistische Hydrodynamik, Relativistische Schwerionenphysik, Quark-Gluon-Plasma-Physik, Relativistische kinetische Theorie
Honours and awards

2018: Humboldt Forschungspreis

2015: Distinguished University Professor of Physics, Ohio State University

1988: Gerhard Hess Preis, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft

Current contact address

CountryUnited States of America
CityColumbus
InstitutionOhio State University
InstituteDepartment of Physics

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Dirk RischkeInstitut für Theoretische Physik, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, Frankfurt am Main
Start of initial sponsorship01/05/2019

Programme(s)

2018Humboldt Research Award Programme

Nominator's project description

Professor Heinz is an international authority in high-energy nuclear physics. He has made seminal contributions to the development of a theory of dissipative relativistic fluid dynamics, and he has applied this theory to study the collective flow of matter created in high-energy collisions of atomic nuclei and to extract transport properties of the quark-gluon plasma. During his stay in Germany, he intends to develop a model of dissipative relativistic magneto-hydrodynamics.