Johanna Stachel

Johanna Barbara Stachel (born 3 December 1954 in Munich) is a German nuclear physicist. She is a professor in experimental physics at the University of Heidelberg (Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg). Stachel is a former president of the German Physical Society (DPG).[1][2][3]

Johanna Stachel
Prof. Johanna Stachel in her office at Heidelberg University (2016)
Born (1954-12-03) 3 December 1954
Munich, Germany
EducationPh.D.
Alma materJohannes Gutenberg University Mainz
Spouse(s)Peter Braun-Munzinger
AwardsOrder of Merit (1999)
Scientific career
FieldsPhysics
InstitutionsHeidelberg University
ThesisDie neutronenreichen Rutheniumisotope, ein Übergangsgebiet zwischen sphärischen und asymmetrisch deformierten Kernen (1982)
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Early life and education

Johanna Stachel completed secondary education in 1972 at the Spohn Gymnasium in Ravensburg. She studied physics and chemistry at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zürich) and received a degree from the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz in 1978.[4] In 1982 she obtained a doctorate in physics from the same university.[5][6]

Career

From 1983 to 1996, Stachel studied and worked at the State University of New York (SUNY) at Stony Brook and Brookhaven National Laboratory where she met her future husband professor Peter Braun-Munzinger.[7] In 1996 she was named professor at the University of Heidelberg. Stachel was spokesperson of the CERN SPS experiment CERES/NA45 and directed the developed the ALICE Transition Radiation Detector.[6]

Stachel was elected President of the German Physical Society for a two-year term starting in 2012. Her two primary priorities as president were first to defend basic research by showing its importance and promote physics education in schools by improving the training of physics teachers and the standards across German schools.[8]

During her career, she has delivered over 150 lectures at international workshops and conferences and has participated in over 100 seminars and colloquia.

Research interests

Stachel's research focuses on understanding relativistic heavy-ion collisions and quark-gluon plasma. She is member of the LHC ALICE Collaboration at CERN in Geneva. Stachel is also interested in developing detectors that are needed to carry out these experiments in particle physics.[9][10]

Offices and honorary offices

Among her academic responsibilities are:

  • From 2003 to 2005 she was dean of the faculty of Physics and Astronomy of the University of Heidelberg.[11] Until 2012, she continued to serve as vice-dean.[12][13]
  • Associate editor for the journal Nuclear Physics A.[14]
  • Membership of the Advisory Board of the Wilhelm and Else Heraeus Foundation.[15]
  • Membership of the University Council of the Vienna University of Technology starting in 2018 for a 5-year term.[16]
  • International councilor with the American Physical Society[6] from 2016–2019.

On 28 March 2014 she received the honorary membership of the Physikalischen Verein, Frankfurt,[17] where she is listed along with luminaries such as Heinrich Hertz, Albert Einstein and Otto Stern.

Honors and awards

References
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  2. "Johanna Stachel ist Einsteins Erbin". www.tagesspiegel.de (in German). Retrieved 2020-05-11.
  3. "Prof. Johanna Stachel". www.physi.uni-heidelberg.de. Retrieved 2020-05-08.
  4. "Curriculum Vitae Prof. Dr.Johanna Stachel" (PDF). Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften Leopoldina. Retrieved 11 May 2020.
  5. Stachel, Johanna (1982). Die neutronenreichen Rutheniumisotope, ein Übergangsgebiet zwischen sphärischen und asymmetrisch deformierten Kernen [Neutron-rich ruthenium isotope, a transition domain between spherically and asymmetrically deformed nuclei]. Mainz: Mainz Univ., Dissertation.
  6. "Johanna Stachel". www.aps.org. Retrieved 2018-10-11.
  7. Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft (6 May 2019). "Stern-Gerlach-Medaille 2019 - Interview: Prof. Dr. Johanna Stachel and Prof. Dr. Peter Braun-Munzinger". YouTube. Retrieved 11 May 2020.
  8. Schubert, Frank (2012-04-16). "Johanna Stachel ist Einsteins Erbin". Der Tagesspiegel Online (in German). ISSN 1865-2263. Retrieved 2018-10-07.
  9. "Professor Johanna Stachel discusses the effort of German physicists in the ALICE experiment at the CERN Large Hadron Collider". SciTech Europa. 2018-09-03. Retrieved 2018-10-07.
  10. Garner, Courtney (2018-09-03). "Professor Johanna Stachel discusses the effort of German physicists in the ALICE experiment at the CERN Large Hadron Collider". SciTech Europa. Retrieved 2020-05-11.
  11. "Fak. f. Physik und Astronomie: Dekan, Prodekan etc". 2003-10-08. Archived from the original on 2003-10-08. Retrieved 2020-05-11.
  12. "Telefonverzeichnis". 2006-08-14. Archived from the original on 2006-08-14. Retrieved 2020-05-11.
  13. "Universitätsrat" (PDF). Jahresbericht (in German). 2011: 16. 13 June 2012.
  14. Nuclear Physics A Editorial Board. Archived from the original on 28 July 2016.
  15. "Stiftungsorgane: Wilhelm und Else Heraeus-Stiftung". www.we-heraeus-stiftung.de. Archived from the original on 17 March 2019. Retrieved 2020-05-11.
  16. "University council". www.tuwien.at. 2020-02-26. Archived from the original on 16 February 2020. Retrieved 2020-05-11.
  17. Deiss, Bruno (7 April 2014). "Neues Ehrenmitglied des Physikalischen Vereins" (PDF). UniReport (in German). 47 (2): 10.
  18. "90 Scientists Win Research Grants". The New York Times. March 9, 1986. Retrieved 2018-10-08.
  19. Stachel, Johanna. "Presidential Young Investigator Award: Study of Collisions Between Relativistic Heavy Ions (Physics)". Grantome. Archived from the original on 9 May 2020.
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  21. "Mitglied – Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften". www.bbaw.de. Retrieved 2020-05-09.
  22. "Prof. Dr. Johanna Stachel awardedLautenschläger Research Prize" (PDF). University of Heidelberg press release. 5 September 2001. Archived (PDF) from the original on 9 May 2020. Retrieved 9 May 2020.
  23. "Academy of Europe: Stachel Johanna". www.ae-info.org. Archived from the original on 28 March 2019. Retrieved 2020-05-09.
  24. "EPS honours CERN's heavy-ion researchers | CERN". home.cern. Retrieved 2018-10-08.
  25. "ALICE physicists receive 2014 Lise Meitner Prize | CERN". home.cern. September 2014. Retrieved 2018-10-08.
  26. "HAW members since 1909". www.haw.uni-heidelberg.de. Archived from the original on 14 December 2019. Retrieved 2020-05-09.
  27. Johanna Stachel, Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, retrieved 2019-01-05
  28. "EPS honours ALICE's heavy-ion researchers". CERN Courier. 54 (7): 31. 2017.
  29. "Zurück zum Anfang aller Dinge". www.oeaw.ac.at (in German). Retrieved 2019-09-10.
  30. Lise-Meitner-Lecture 2017 - Interview mit Prof. Dr. Johanna Stachel, retrieved 2019-09-10
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  32. "Heidelberg: Physiker ehren Johanna Stachel". www.rnz.de (in German). Retrieved 2020-05-11.
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