Volker Springel

Volker Springel is a German astrophysicist. He is Director of Computational Astrophysics at the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics in Garching.[1]

Springel earned a degree in Physics from the University of Tübingen in 1996 and completed his PhD at LMU Munich in 1999.[1] He is known in particular for his contributions to large-scale cosmological simulations; his 2005 paper on the Millennium Simulation has been cited more than 3,000 times and is the most cited astronomy paper ever published in Nature.[2] In 2020, he shared the Gruber Prize in Cosmology with Lars Hernquist for their efforts to improve computational simulations.[2] He won the Leibniz Prize the following year.[3]

References

  1. ^ a b "Volker Springel". Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics. Retrieved 17 May 2025.
  2. ^ a b "2020 Gruber Cosmology Prize". Gruber Foundation. Retrieved 17 May 2025.
  3. ^ "ORIGINS Scientist Volker Springel honored with the 2021 Leibniz Prize". ORIGINS Excellence Cluster. 12 November 2020. Retrieved 17 May 2025.

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