Prof. Dr. rer. nat. habil. Friedrich Konrad Röpke

Curriculum vitae

Current Position

Full Professor (W3) of Theoretical Astrophysics at the the Center for Astronomy of Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Germany

Head of the research group Physics of Stellar Objects at the Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies

Employment:

January 2011 – February 2015: Professor (W2) of Astrophysics at the Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, Germany

June 2008 – December 2010: Head of an Emmy Noether Research Group at the Max-Planck-Institut für Astrophysik, Garching, Germany

March 1, 2006 – March 31, 2007: Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA

July 2003 – May 2008: Postdoctoral fellow at the Max-Planck-Institut für Astrophysik, Garching, Germany

Education and Academic Record

Venia Legendi:
Privatdozent (private docent) at the Technische Universität München, Germany, since January 2, 2009

Habilitation:
Technische Universität München, Germany, July 9, 2008

Doctoral degree:
Dr. rer. nat. from Technische Universität München, Germany, July 28, 2003

Graduate Studies:
July 2000 – July 2003 doctoral candidate at the Max-Planck-Institut für Astrophysik, Garching, Germany

Diploma:
April 18, 2000 from the Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Germany

University Education:
Student of physics at the Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Germany, beginning in October 1994
and at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville VA, USA (1997/1998)

Honors:

ERC Advanced Grant (2022) “ExCEED” ‐ Explaining Common-Envelope Evolution and Dynamics in binary stellar systems

ARCHES – Award for Research Cooperation and High Excellence in Science (2010) (together with Avishay Gal-Yam, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel)

Emmy Noether Programme of the German Research Foundation (2007), providing funds for establishing own research group

Professional Services

Referee for Nature, Science, The Astrophysical Journal (Letters and Main Journal, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Astronomy and Astrophysics, the International Journal of Modern Physics D, Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics, and Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia

Reviewer for the German Research Foundation (DFG),

Reviewer for the NASA Astrophysics Theory Program

Reviewer for the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation

Reviewer for the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)

Reviewer for the German-Israeli Foundation for Scientific Research and Development (GIF)

Reviewer for the Leibniz Supercomputing Centre (LRZ) of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities

Reviewer for the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO)

Reviewer for the Israel Science Foundation (ISF)

Professional Memberships

Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft (German Physical Society)

International Astronomical Union

German Astronomical Society