Senior Fellow
Prof. Dr. Hannah Elfner (Petersen)
Research Area: Theoretical Sciences
Focuses: Heavy Ion Physics, Nuclear Physics
Contact
Office: 3|29 (GSC)
Phone: +49 69 798 47652
Thoughts
Prof. Dr. Hannah Elfner (Petersen)
Theoretical Sciences
"To understand the smallest building blocks of matter and their properties fascinates me and I enjoy the required international collaboration in this field."
Vita
Prof. Dr. Hannah Elfner, née Petersen on October 12, 1982 in Frankfurt am Main, studied physics at the Goethe University Frankfurt and subsequently obtained her doctorate in physics from 2006 to 2009 at the Goethe University in cooperation with the Helmholtz Research School on Quark Matter Studies. After completing her dissertation, which was honored as the best in her field, Hannah Elfner worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the Helmholtz International Center for FAIR before spending a year as a Feodor-Lynen Fellow at the Department of Physics at Duke University, USA. From 2011-2012 she also worked there as Visiting Assistant Professor before returning to Germany to lead a Helmholtz Young Investigators Group at GSI and FIAS. Since 2013 she is a FIAS Fellow and, in addition, holds a W2 Professorship at the Goethe University Frankfurt. Since 2018 she also heads the group Transport and Experimental Simulations at GSI. In 2022 she was nominated as Senior Fellow at FIAS.
Find out more: https://www.elfner-group.science
Publications
Detail
At FIAS
2022 - today Senior Fellow
2013 - 2022 Fellow
2012 - 2018 Helmholtz Young Investigator Group
Further organisations
2021 - today Coordinator of Theory Pillar at GSI
2021 - today Head of Department Hot and Dense QCD Matter at GSI
2020 - today Member of Helmholtz Research Academy Hesse for FAIR
2018 - 2021 Head of transport and experiment simulations at GSI
2013 - today W2 professorship at the Goethe University
2012 - 2018 Helmholtz junior research group at the GSI
2011 - 2012 Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, Duke University
2010 - 2011 Feodor-Lynen Fellow, Department of Physics, Duke University
Honours and Awards
- Zimanyi Medal Recipient at Quark Matter (2018)
- Heinz-Maier-Leibnitz-Preis by DFG (2016)
- Feodor-Lynen-Fellowship of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (2010)
- Prize for the best interdisciplinary dissertation awarded by GRADE (2010)
- Gernot and Carin Frank Prize for the best dissertation in physics at the Goethe University Frankfurt (2010)
- Michael Loulakis Prize for the best diploma thesis (2007)
- PhD student grant from the Deutsche Telekom Foundation (2006)