PD Dr. Thomas Rauscher
LecturerPhilosophisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät
Departement Physik
FG Thielemann
Lecturer
Departement Physik
Fachgruppe Thielemann
Klingelbergstrasse 82
4056
Basel
Schweiz
PD Dr. Thomas Rauscher
Short Academic Biography
- 1982-1991 Studies of Physics at the University of Technology, Vienna, Austria, and Astronomy at the University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
- 1989 Diplom-Ingenieur aus Technischer Physik (Masters in Physics)
Masters Thesis: "One-nucleon transfer below the Coulomb barrier", University of Technology, Vienna, Austria - 1991 Dr. techn. aus Technischer Physik (PhD in Physics)
PhD thesis: "Reaction rates for primordial nucleosynthesis", University of Technology, Vienna, Austria - 1991-1993 Erwin Schrödinger Fellow (Austrian Science Foundation), Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, USA
- 1993-1995 Alexander von Humboldt Fellow, University of Mainz, Germany
- 1995-1998 APART Fellow (Austrian Academy of Sciences), University of Basel, Switzerland
- 1998 Habilitation in Theoretical Physics, University of Basel, Switzerland
- 1999-2004 Assistenzprofessor (assistant professor, SNF), University of Basel, Switzerland
- 2005-2012 Lecturer (Privat-Dozent), University of Basel, Switzerland
- 2012 Distinguished Guest professor (Hungarian Academy of Sciences), MTA Atomki, Hungary
- 2013-2016 Assistenzprofessor (assistant professor, non-tenure track, part-time), University of Basel, Switzerland
- 2013-2016 Reader (associate professor, tenured), University of Hertfordshire, United Kingdom
- Since 2017 Lecturer (Privat-Dozent), University of Basel, Switzerland
Research Summary
- Nuclear Astrophysics
- Stellar, Explosive and Big Bang Nucleosynthesis
- Stellar Evolution
- Nuclear Reactions (Transfer and Fusion Reactions, Radiative Capture, in different reaction mechanisms (compound and directreactions), Nuclear Structure
- Numerical Simulations
There is a separate web page detailingmy scientific work and results!
Academic Honors
- Fellow of the Institute of Physics (IOP), UK
- Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society (RAS), UK
- Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (HEA), UK
- Ludwig Boltzmann Prize for Theoretical Physics (Austrian Physical Society), 1999
- Distinguished Guest Professor at MTA Atomki, Debrecen, Hungary (Hungarian Academy of Sciences), 2012
- Outstanding Referee Award (American Physical Society), 2017
- Member of the RIKEN NP-PAC (Japan), 2015-2018
- Golden Chalk Award (Department of Physics, University of Basel), 2011