Prof. Dr. Roger David Blandford

Profil

Derzeitige StellungProfessor W-3 und Äquivalente
FachgebietAstrophysik
Keywordshigh enregy astrophysics, astroparticle physics, cosmology, gravitational lensing, black holes

Aktuelle Kontaktadresse

LandUSA
OrtMenlo Park
Universität/InstitutionStanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC)
Institut/AbteilungParticle Physics and Astrophysics

Gastgeber*innen während der Förderung

Prof. Dr. Rashid SunyaevMax-Planck-Institut für Astrophysik, Garching
Beginn der ersten Förderung01.07.2011

Programm(e)

2011Humboldt-Forschungspreis-Programm für Naturwissenschaftler*innen aus den USA

Projektbeschreibung der*des Nominierenden

Professor Roger David Blandford is honoured for the Blandford-Znajek Mechanism describing a way of extracting energy from rapidly rotating black holes. His papers on gravitational lensing, black hole astrophysics, neutron star physics and cosmology made him one of the most well known theoretical astrophysicists on the globe. In Germany he continues to study on the physics of gamma-ray sources connected with dark matter annihilation and energy release in vicinity of rapidly rotating black holes and strongly magnetized neutron stars