Prof. Dr. Ivan Hubeny

Profile

Academic positionAssociate Professor, Senior Lecturer, Reader
Research fieldsAstrophysics
Keywordstheory of stellar atmospheres, accretion disk models, radiation transfer, atmospheres of extrasolar planets and brown dwarfs

Current contact address

CountryUnited States of America
CityTucson
InstitutionUniversity of Arizona
InstituteSteward Observatory

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Klaus WernerInstitut für Astronomie und Astrophysik, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Tübingen
Start of initial sponsorship01/04/2016

Programme(s)

2014Humboldt Research Award Programme

Nominator's project description

Professor Hubeny is well known internationally for his outstanding research in radiation transfer theory and related astrophysical topics. He has made important contributions to the theory on stellar atmospheres and accretion disks. Professor Hubeny combines a large variety of mathematical and numerical methods with intuitive physical insight. During his stay in Germany, he intends to develop a new generation of atmosphere models for neutron stars that will be used to constrain the equation of state of matter at supranuclear densities, and he will elaborate on spectral models for the characterization of extrasolar planets.