Horst Stöcker was born in Frankfurt am Main in 1952 and grew up in Oberursel im Taunus. After graduating from high school in 1971, he studied physics, mathematics, chemistry and philosophy at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main.

Following his diploma in 1976, he worked on his dissertation "Shock waves in nuclear matter - proof by circumstantial evidence" with Walter Greiner and received his doctorate at the Goethe University Frankfurt in 1979. In 1979, he first became a guest researcher at the former Society for Heavy Ion Research in Darmstadt.

In 1980 Stöcker joined the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory of the University of California, Berkeley, USA, as a DAAD-NATO Fellow. From 1982 to 1985, he was an Assistant Professor at the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Michigan State University and the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory (NSCL).

In 1985 Horst Stöcker accepted a professorship in Theoretical Physics at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main. He currently holds a professorship in Theoretical Physics and Astrophysics at the Goethe University and holds the Judah M. Eisenberg Chair - "Professor Laureatus of Theoretical Physics" at the Department of Physics there.

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