Prof. Dr. Dragan Huterer

Profile

Academic positionFull Professor
Research fieldsAstrophysics,Astronomy
KeywordsDark Energy, Large­-scale Structure of the Universe, Cosmology
Honours and awards

2018: Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Award, Humboldt Foundation

2017: Elected Fellow of the American Physical Society

2013: Henry Russel Award (for teaching and research), University of Michigan

Current contact address

CountryUnited States of America
CityAnn Arbor
InstitutionUniversity of Michigan
InstituteDepartment of Physics

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Eiichiro KomatsuMax-Planck-Institut für Astrophysik, Garching
Start of initial sponsorship01/09/2020

Programme(s)

2018Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award Programme

Nominator's project description

Professor Huterer is an authority in the study of Dark Energy, a form of energy which is thought to be responsible for the acceleration of the Universe. Since its discovery in 1998, he has made important contributions to deciphering the physical nature of Dark Energy using both theory and observations. In Germany, Professor Huterer explores robust consistency tests of cosmic acceleration and systematic errors in Dark Energy measurements to study whether the acceleration is caused by a new energy form or possible breakdown of Einstein's General Relativity on large scales.