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Profile
| Academic position | Full Professor |
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| Research fields | Astrophysics,Astronomy |
| Keywords | gravitation and dynamics, polarimetry, astrophysical instrumentation and techniques, solar physics |
Current contact address
| Country | United States of America |
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| City | Makawao |
| Institution | University of Hawaii |
| Institute | Institute for Astronomy |
Host during sponsorship
| Prof. Dr. Oskar Lühe | Leibniz-Institut für Sonnenphysik (KIS), Freiburg |
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| Prof. Dr. Svetlana Berdyugina | Leibniz-Institut für Sonnenphysik (KIS), Freiburg |
| Start of initial sponsorship | 01/01/2011 |
Programme(s)
| 2010 | Humboldt Research Award Programme |
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Nominator's project description
| Professor Kuhn is an international authority in solar physics, where he piloted a number of new research directions. His works on the foundations of helioseismology and understanding the shape of the sun are essential milestones in solar physics. He has discovered Rossby waves on the Sun and was the first to measure magnetic fields in the solar corona. Professor Kuhn is well known for his interdisciplinary and highly original contributions, also outside his primary field of research. During his stay in Germany, he intends to elaborate a novel dissipation mechanism of sunspots and work out its relation with the solar and stellar cycles. |