Curriculum Vitae Prof. Dr. Thomas Henning Max Planck Institute for Astronomy Königstuhl 17 69117 Heidelberg Germany Phone: +49-6221-528-200 Fax: +49-6221-528-339 Position: Director E-mail: henning@mpia.de Date of birth: April 09th, 1956 Academic Education 1989 1984 1981 1976-1980 Habilitation, University of Jena PhD in Astrophysics, University of Jena Diploma Degree in Physics, University of Jena Studies in Physics and Mathematics, University of Greifswald Scientific Career 2002 - present 2002 - present 2001 - present 2000-2002 2000-2007 1999-2002 Professor for Astrophysics, University of Jena Honorary Professor for Astronomy, University of Heidelberg Director at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, & Head of Planet and Star Formation Department, Heidelberg Director of the Astrophysical Institute, University of Jena Co-Chair of the DFG Research Group Laboratory Astrophysics Chair for Astrophysics, University of Jena
1992-1998 Professor for Astrophysics, University of Jena 1991-1996 Head of the Max Planck Research Unit Star Formation, Jena 1989-1990 Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Radioastronomy, Bonn 1986-1988 Assistant Professor at the Astrophysical Institute and University Observatory, Jena 1984-1985 Postdoc, Charles University, Prague Professional Service IAU Special Nominating Committee Advisory Committee of the Thuringian State Observatory Tautenburg Stern - Gerlach Prize Committee IAU Laboratory Astrophysics Commission Coordinator Heidelberg Initiative for the Origins of Life (HIFOL) Member National COSPAR Committee Memberships in Scientific Organizations Member of Astronomische Gesellschaft (AG) Member of Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft (DPG) Member of International Astronomical Union (IAU) Former Memberships and Professional Service (Selection) ESO Council Member and Vice President ESO Strategic Working Group CAHA Executive Board ESA/ESO Observer of the NASA/NSF Exoplanet Task Force ELT Design Study Steering Committee SOFIA Science Council ESA Astronomy Working Group European ALMA Board LBT Board Panel Chair of the European Research Council for Advanced Investigator Grants President of the Scientific Council of the European Interferometry Initiative Advisory Committee of the Kiepenheuer Institute for Solar Physics Dutch Academy Professorship Committee Astronomy Panel Chair of the Leopoldina Advisory Board - Hungarian Research Centre for Astronomy and Earth Sciences Member of the Steering Committee of IAU Division H Interstellar Matter and the local Universe Referee for UK, French, Swiss, Dutch, Belgian, Swedish, Canadian, Russian, Japanese, Spanish, Indian and US funding organizations Evaluation Panel for Innsbruck and Turku Universities Visiting Committee Royal Belgium Observatory DFG Priority Program Physics of Star Formation, Coordinator DFG Priority Program Physics of the Interstellar Medium, Member of the Steering Committee
Editorial Boards Molecular Astrophysics Living Reviews in Computational Astrophysics Sterne und Weltraum (popular journal, main editor) Star Formation Newsletter Honors and Awards 2017 Invited Professor University of Copenhagen 2016 Adjunct Professor Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, India 2016 Invited Professor - Sapporo University 2015 Invited Professor - ESO Chile 2014 Marker Lecture, Pennstate University 2012 JWST Significant Achievement Award 2011 Littrow Lecture, Austrian Academy of Sciences 2009 30882 Tomhenning: Designation of minor planet 1992 SG2 2001 Scientific Member of the Max Planck Society 1999 Member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina 1999 Invited Professor - University of Amsterdam 1997 Fundamental Research Award of the Federal State of Thuringia Instrumentation and Major Surveys Co-I of the PACS instrument (Herschel observatory) Co-I of the FIFI-LS instrument (SOFIA observatory) Co-PI of the NACO Exoplanet Survey (ESO) Co-PI of the Hat-South and Pan-Planets Exoplanet Transit Projects Co-I of the SPHERE Planet Imaging Instrument for the VLT (ESO) Co-I of the SEEDS collaboration (Tokyo-Heidelberg-Princeton) Co-PI of the MATISSE Imaging instrument for the VLTI (ESO) Co-PI of the JWST MIRI instrument Science Team Member of the GRAVITY instrument (ESO-VLTI) Science Team Member of the METIS instrument for the E-ELT Science Team Member of the CARMENES instrument (CAHA) Co-PI of the Chemistry in Disk (CID) Collaboration ESA Member of WFIRST FSWG TESS Collaborator Team Member Associated Foreign Member of LUVOIR Team Main Fields of Research Star and Planet Formation Massive Star Formation and Stellar Clusters Protoplanetary and Debris Disks
Physics and Chemistry of the Interstellar Medium Exoplanet Search and Characterization Laboratory Astrophysics Infrared Instrumentation Supervision of students Supervision of 71 PhD students and ~15 master students Numerous university lectures and seminars Member of Scientific Organizing Committees (Selection of major meetings and Invited Talks) Protostars and Planets V and VI Meetings (Hawaii and Heidelberg) Exoplanets I and II Meetings (Davos and Cambridge) Harvard-Heidelberg Star Formation Meetings Early Phase of Star Formation Meetings (EPOS) Cosmic Dust Meetings (Heidelberg, Taiwan, Copenhagen) Tokyo-Heidelberg Planet Formation Meetings Numerous invited conference talks and colloquia, e.g: Keynote Talks 2017: American Chemical Society Meeting, San Fransisco Kavli Meeting on Planet Formation, University of Cambridge Origins of Life Meeting, Munich Invited Talks 2017: Alpbach Summer School on Cosmic Dust Kavli IAU Workshop on future large space-based UVOIR telescopes, Leiden Colloquium Talks 2017: University of Copenhagen Observatory Leiden University of Zürich Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai (Self-limited to about 5 colloquium and 2 popular talks per year) Publication Record Citations: 40.000 H-factor: 92 Major Reviews in: Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics The Astronomy and Astrophysics Review Science Chemical Reviews Protostars & Planets 884 (as at 12/2017) Papers in Refereed Journals, e.g.: Astronomy and Astrophysics
The Astrophysics Journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (MNRAS) Astronomical Journal Science Nature Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) Journal of Chemical Physics Applied Optics Carbon