Prof. Dr Horst Stöcker extends term of office

Following the wish of the supervisory board, Prof. Dr Horst Stöcker will continue in his term of office as Scientific Director of the GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research GmbH for another five years. Stöcker occupies this post since 2007 and, amongst other things, has, in cooperation with German and international partners, helped to create the conditions for the now approved building of the FAIR accelerator centre. Stöcker has studied physics, mathematics and chemistry at the Goethe University of Frankfurt and, after the conferral of his doctorate, has worked as a visiting scientist at the University of California in Berkeley. He is Foundation Chairman of the Executive Board and Senior Fellow of the Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies (FIAS) and, since 2008, Vice-President of the Helmholtz Association.

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