Felix Aharonian#
| Membership Number: | 4528 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | EARTH & COSMIC SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2017 |
| Main Country of Residence: | IRELAND |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.dias.ie/2010/08/19/astrostaff-felix |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2006 onwards Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics, the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies
- 1993 onwards Leader of the High Energy Astrophysics Group, MPI fuer Kernphysik, Heidelberg, Germany
- 1992 to 1993 Visiting Professor, MPI fuer Kernphysik, Heidelberg, Germany
- 1991 to 1992 Visiting Professor, the University of Chicago, USA.
- 1979 to 1991 Researcher, Yerevan Physics Institute, Armenia (Deputy Chair of science council, 1989-1991)
Fields of Scholarship
- Astroparticle Physics
- High-energy astrophysics
- Relativistic astrophysics
- Radiation processes
- Gamma-ray astronomy
- Multi-messenger astronomy
- Cosmic Ray Physics
Honours and Awards
- 2016 Honorary Member of the Ioffe Institute, Saint Petersburg
- 2014 Victor Ambartsumian International Prize
- 2012 Elected as Member of the Royal Irish Academy
- 2010 Rossi Prize of the American Astronomical Association (shared with W. Hofmann and H. Völk) for the HESS project
- 2008 Elected as Foreign Member of the National Academy of Sciences, Armenia
- 2006 Elected as External Scientific Member of the MPI for Nuclear Physics, Heidelberg
- 2006 EU Descartes Prize (as a member of the HESS collaboration)
- 2005 Prize of the President of Armenia
- 1975 Best Master Thesis in Physics (Ministry of Education of USSR)
