Hendrik Schatz

Hendrik Schatz is a professor of Nuclear Astrophysics at Michigan State University. He earned his Diploma from the University of Karlsruhe in 1993, and his PhD from the University of Heidelberg in 1997 after completing his thesis work at the University of Notre Dame. He is one of the Principal Investigators for the Joint Institute for Nuclear Astrophysics and is a leading expert on nuclear astrophysics,.[2] Schatz also serves the science advisory committees for the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams[3] and GSI. Hendrik's primary field of expertise is Type I X-ray Bursts. His most notable contribution to this field is the discovery of the SnTeSb-cycle.[4] Hendrik was featured in Science magazine November 22, 2002[5] for his work on experimental nuclear astrophysics. Hendrik has also contributed to Physics Today.[6]

Hendrik Schatz
Hendrik lecturing, 2011
NationalityGerman
Alma materUniversity of Heidelberg
Known forX-ray Bursts
AwardsAPS Fellow (2007),[1] College of Natural Science Teacher-Scholar Award (2002), Alfred P/ Sloan Fellow (2001)
Scientific career
FieldsNuclear astrophysics, Experimental Physics
InstitutionsMichigan State University, National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory
Doctoral advisorH. Rebel & M. Wiescher

His APS Fellowship citation is:

For his seminal contributions to our theoretical and experimental understanding of the r-process, the rp process, x-ray bursts, and the modification of neutron star crusts by the ashes of nuclear processes.[1]

References
  1. "APS Fellow Archive". American Physical Society. (search on year=2007 and institution=Michigan State University)
  2. "TUMannouncement". Technical University of Munich.
  3. "FRIB SAC". Facility for Rare Isotope Beams.
  4. Schatz, Hendrik; A. Aprahamian; V. Barnard; L. Bildsten; A. Cumming; M. Ouellette; T. Rauscher; F.-K. Thielemann; M. Wiescher (16 April 2001). "The endpoint of the rp process on accreting neutron stars". Phys. Rev. Lett. 86 (16): 3471–4. arXiv:astro-ph/0102418. Bibcode:2001PhRvL..86.3471S. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.86.3471. PMID 11328001.
  5. Seife, Charles (22 November 2008). "Accelerator Aims to Find the Source of All Elements". Science Magazine. 298 (5598): 1544–1547. doi:10.1126/science.298.5598.1544. PMID 12446887.
  6. Schatz, Hendrik (November 2008). "Rare Isotopes in the Cosmos". Physics Today. 61 (11): 40–45. Bibcode:2008PhT....61k..40S. doi:10.1063/1.3027990. S2CID 27853540.


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