Petr Heinzel
| Prof. Petr Heinzel Dr Sc | |
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 Petr Heinzel at Czech Astronomical Society congress 2017.jpg Petr Heinzel (2017) | |
| Born | November 9, 1950 |
| 🏳️ Nationality | Czech |
| 💼 Occupation | Chairman of the Czech Astronomical Society (2017 -) |
| 🏅 Awards | Nušl Prize (2014) awarded by the Czech Academy of Sciences |
Petr Heinzel (* November 9, 1950) is a Czech astronomer and professor who is specialized in Solar Physics. From 2004 to 2012 he was director of the Astronomical Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic. In 2012 he was appointed Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic. Since, 2017, he is Chairman of the Czech Astronomical Society. He is also a member of the International Astronomical Union.
Academic background
Petr Heinzel graduated in 1974 from the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics of the Charles University in Prague, the oldest and largest university of Czech Republic, that belongs to top three universities in Central and Eastern Europe. In 1982, he received a PhD in Astrophysics and in 1993 became Doctor of Science in Astrophysics.[1]
Research Field
Petr Heinzel's area of research is Solar physics. He has made research on solar flares, solar prominences, coronal loops, chromosphere structure and radiative transfers in stellar atmospheres. He has achieved significant scientific results in radiation hydrodynamics of stellar atmospheres, as well as in the spectral analysis of astrophysical plasma[2].
Academic and scientific carrer
He started working at the Astronomical Institute of Ondřejov after graduating in 1974. There he became the head of the solar department, a position that he would hold until 2004.[3]
From 1987 to 1995, he was associate scientist in the SOHO/SUMER team, that developed a VUV telescope and spectrometer (project SUMER, for Solar Ultraviolet Measurements of Emitted Radiation) at the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research in Lindau, Germany, to operate on board of the ESA/NASA spacecraft Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO), which was launched in December 1995[4].
In July 2004, Petr Heinzel became director of the Astronomical Institute of Czech Academy of Sciences. He defended his position in 2007, when the institute was transformed into a public research institution, and remained in office until 2012.[5]
In 2012, Petr Heinzel was appointed Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the Department of Astronomy, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic. He had been Associate Professor since 2005.[6]
On April 2, 2017, Petr Heinzel was elected Chairman of the Czech Astronomical Society.
Teacher occupations
Petr Heinzel teaches stellar atmospheres theory and solar physics at the Charles University in Prague. Abroad, he is external lecturer at the Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia and at the University of Wrocław, Poland.
He has been member of the Supervisory Board for PhD students at the Charles University in Prague, and Supervisor of PhD students at the Charles University in Prague, the University of Bratislava, the University of Wrocław, the Moscow State University and the Cairo University.
He has also been visiting professor at the Université de Paris (Orsay), Observatoire de Meudon, France, at the University of Wrocław, Poland and at the Max Plack Institute for Astrophysics in Garching, Germany[7].
Awards
In 2003, Petr Heinzel received the award of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic for the analysis of spectral data of hydrogen of the solar atmosphere obtained by the SOHO satellite.
In 2009, he received the Gold Medal of the University of Wrocław for long-term cooperation and in recognition of his scientific results.
Petr Heinzel was laureate for 2014 of the Nušl Prize awarded by the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic. The award was presented by the Chairman of the Czech Astronomical Society of the time Jan Vondrak, Dr Sc.[8]
Personal life
His hobby is classical music. He plays the violin and together with other astronomers participates in the cultural life at the Ondřejov Observatory and at national or international astronomical events in Czech Republic.[9]
Publications
Scientific papers
Since 1975, Petr Heinzel has published more than 130 scientific papers, which have received more than 2,000 citations. His Hirsch index has reached 26, which is above-average in astronomy.[10]
Books
Petr Heinzel coedited multiple books discussing solar physics:
- Solar Coronal Structures (1994, coedited with V. Rušin and J.-C. Vial)[11]
- The Physics of Chromospheric Plasmas (2007, coedited with I. Dorotovič and R. J. Rutten)[12]
- Solar and Stellar Flares and Their Effects on Planets (2016, Cambridge University Press, coedited with A. Kosovichev and S. Hawley)[13]
- Solar and Stellar Flares (2017, Springer Netherlands, coedited with Lindsay Fletcher)[14]
References
- ↑ "Heinzel Petr :: Hvězdárna Františka Pešty - Sezimovo Ústí". www.hvezdarna-fp.eu. Retrieved 2021-02-14.
- ↑ "Heinzel Petr :: Hvězdárna Františka Pešty - Sezimovo Ústí". www.hvezdarna-fp.eu. Retrieved 2021-02-14.
- ↑ "Petr Heinzel", Wikipedie (in čeština), 2019-06-13, retrieved 2021-02-14
- ↑ "SUMER Homepage". www2.mps.mpg.de. Retrieved 2021-02-14.
- ↑ "Petr Heinzel", Wikipedie (in čeština), 2019-06-13, retrieved 2021-02-14
- ↑ "Heinzel Petr :: Hvězdárna Františka Pešty - Sezimovo Ústí". www.hvezdarna-fp.eu. Retrieved 2021-02-14.
- ↑ "Petr Heinzel". web.archive.org. 2007-09-24. Archived from the original on 2007-09-24. Retrieved 2021-02-14.
- ↑ "Heinzel Petr :: Hvězdárna Františka Pešty - Sezimovo Ústí". www.hvezdarna-fp.eu. Retrieved 2021-02-14.
- ↑ "Heinzel Petr :: Hvězdárna Františka Pešty - Sezimovo Ústí". www.hvezdarna-fp.eu. Retrieved 2021-02-14.
- ↑ "Heinzel Petr :: Hvězdárna Františka Pešty - Sezimovo Ústí". www.hvezdarna-fp.eu. Retrieved 2021-02-14.
- ↑ International Astronomical Union (1994). Solar coronal structures : proceedings of the 144th Colloquium of the International Astronomical Union held in Tatranská Lomnica, Slovakia, September 20-24, 1993, on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of Skalnaté Pleso Observatory. Tatranská Lomnica, The Slovak Republic: Veda Publishing House of the Slovak Academy of Sciences. ISBN 978-80-224-0090-9. Search this book on
- ↑ "The Physics of Chomospheric Plasma | Request PDF". researchgate.net. Retrieved 2021-02-14. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Shibata, Kazunari (2015/08). "Solar and stellar flares and their impact on planets". Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union. 11 (S320): 3–24. doi:10.1017/S1743921316006323. ISSN 1743-9213. Check date values in:
|date=(help) - ↑ Fletcher, Lyndsay; Heinzel, Petr, eds. (2017). Solar and Stellar Flares: Observations, Simulations, and Synergies. Springer Netherlands. ISBN 978-94-024-0934-5. Search this book on
- Pictures about Petr Heinzel on Wikimedia Commons
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