Curriculum vitae
Prof. Dr. Sami K. Solanki
Career
| 04/2009 - heute | Distinguished Professor, Kyung Hee University, Yongin-si, Gyeonggi-do, Republic of Korea |
| 11/1999 - heute | Scientific Member of the Max-Planck-Society and Director at the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research |
| 08/1998 | Appointed Professor, University of Oulu, Finland |
| 10/1992 | Appointed Lecturer, ETH Zurich, Switzerland |
| 01/1992 | Appointed Senior Research Associate, ETH Zurich, Switzerland |
| 12/1989 - 12/1991 | Post-Doctoral Research Associate, ETH Zurich, Switzerland |
| 11/1987 - 11/1989 | Post Doctoral Research Fellow, University of St Andrews, Scotland |
| 10/1992 | Habilitation and Venia Legendi for Astronomy, ETH Zurich, Switzerland |
| 10/1987 | Doctorate in Natural Sciences, ETH Zurich, Switzerland |
| 10/1982 | Diploma in Physics, ETH Zurich, Switzerland (corresponds to a Master of Science) |
Honors & Awards
| 2017 | Honorary Doctore, University of Oulu, Finland |
| 2016 | Advanced Grant of the European Research Council (ERC), worth 2.4 Millionen Euro |
| 2016 | Distinguished Science Award of the Scientific Committee on Solar-Terestrial Physics (SCOSTEP) |
| 2015 | Julius Bartels Medal of the European Geoscience Union (EGU) |
| 2012 | Group Achievement Award of NASA for the SDO Science Investigation Team |
| 2005 | Elected Associate of The Royal Astronomical Society (RAS) |
| 2004 - heute | Annually invited by the Nobel Foundation to make nominations for the Nobel Prize Prize in Physics and invited by the Crawford Foundation to make nominations for the Crawford Prize in Astronomy |
| 2003 | Honorary Professorship, University of Braunschweig, Germany |
| 2001 | Honorary Professorship, ETH Zurich, Switzerland |
| 1999 | 3rdMinnaert Visiting Professor, University of Utrecht, Netherlands |
Named Lectures
| 2018 | Svein Rosseland Lecturer, University of Oslo, Norway |
| 2015 | Julius Bartels Lecturer, Gerneral Assembly of EGU, Vienna, Austria |
| 2012 | Littrow Lecturer, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Austria |
| 2008 | Bernard Price Lecturer, University of Johannesburg and South African Institute of Electrical Engineering, Johannesburg, South Africa |
| 2002 | Harold Jeffrey’s Lecturer of the RAS |
| 1999 | Minneart Lecturer, University of Utrecht, Netherlands |
Memberships of Scientific Societies (Auswahl)
European Geosciences Union (EGU), German Astronomical Society (AG), European Astronomical Society (EAS), Assosiate of the Committee on Space Research (COSPAR), International Astonomical Union (IAU) of Division 2, Swiss Society of Astronomy & Astrophysics (SSAA/SGAA)
Service to the Scientific Communitiy (Auswahl)
Present and past Member of various Scientific Advisory Commitees, e.g. Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) La Laguna (Tenerife), Spain; High Altitude Observatory (HAO), NCAR, Boulder, CO, USA; Istituto Ricerche Solari Locarno (IRSOL), Locarno, Switzerland; Science Committees of the International Space Science Institute (ISSI), Bern, Switzerland, European Space Agency’s (ESA) Space Science Advisory Committee (SSAC), HQ Paris, France
Head of Evaluation Board of the entire Space Segment of DLR, the German Aerospace Center
Member of the Next Generation Solar Physics Mission" Science Objectives Team of ESA, NASA and JAXA
Editor in Chief and Founder of "Living Reviews in Solar Physics"
Editorial Board Member of the refereed journal "Solar Physics"
National Representative to the Scientific Committee for Solar Terrestrial Physics (SCOSTEP)
Present and past Member of numerous Committees of DLR, e.g., Permanent Representative of the Max Planck Society in the DLR Senate, Chairman of the DLR Space Research Programme Committee, Member of the DLR Space Commission
Space and Instrument Projects (Auswahl)
Principal Investigator
| 2007 - heute | Polarimetric and Helioseismic Imager on Solar Orbiter (SO/PHI) |
| 2001 - heute | Sunrise Balloon-Borne Solar Observatory (whole mission) |
Co-Investigator
| 2008 - heute | Gregor Solar Telescope |
| 2008 - heute | CERN Axion Solar Telescope (CAST) |
| 2007 - heute | EUI, SPICE and Metis instrumens on Solar Orbiter |
| 2001 - heute | Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager (HMI) on the Solar Dynamic Observatory (SDO) |
Grants
Total Project Grants of 60 Million Euro as Principal Investigator since 2002. Obtained from the European Research Council (ERC), German Space Agency (DLR), the German Science Foundation (DFG), Max Planck Foundation (MPF), Max Planck Society (MPG), Italian Space Agency (ASI), Private Donations, etc.
Teaching and Supervision
| 2002 - heute | Founder and Spokesperson of the International Max Planck Research School for Solar System Science at the University of Göttingen. This research school has so far produced 192 PhDs |
| 1990 - heute | Supervision of 45 PhD students with completed theses (main supervisor of 28) and of 9 current PhD students |
| 1990 - heute | Lecture courses held since 1990 at various Universities (ETH Zürich, Switzerland; University of Utrecht, Netherlands; Universities of Göttingen and of Braunschweig, Germany, Kyung Hee University, Republic of Korea) |
| 12 | Summer and Winter Schools at which lecture courses were given, excluding Schools organized by the IMPRS |