Francis Halzen#
EL PAIS/BERNARDO PÉREZ (www.elpais.com)
| Membership Number: | 4696 |
| Membership type: | FOREIGN |
| Section: | PHYSICS & ENGINEERING SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2018 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED STATES |
| Homepage(s): | http://icecube.wisc.edu/~halzen |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2001 - present Principal Investigator and co-Spokesperson for the IceCube Project, University of Wisconsin
- 2013 - 2014 Acting Director of the Wisconsin IceCube Particle Astrophysics Center, University of Wisconsin
- 1991 Hilldale Professor, University of Wisconsin
- 1987 Gregory Breit Distinguished Professor, University of Wisconsin
- 1984 - present Director of the Institute for Elementary Particle Physics Research, University of Wisconsin
- 1977 Romnes Faculty Fellow, University of Wisconsin
- 1977 Professor, University of Wisconsin
- 1974 Associate Professor, University of Wisconsin
- 1972 Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin
- 1971 Research Associate, University of Wisconsin
Fields of Scholarship
- Neutrino physics
- Particle astrophysics
- Dark matter in the universe
- Supersymmetry
- Theoretical physics
- Cosmology
- Particle physics theory and phenomenology
- Collider physics
- Physics beyond the Standard Model
Honours and Awards
- 2017 Julius Wess Award
- 2017 Doctor Honoris Causa Southern Methodist University
- 2016 Member Royal National Academy, Belgium
- 2015 Balzan Prize
- 2015 European Physical Society Prize for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology
- 2014 International Francqui Professor, VUB–ULB–UGent–UMons–UA–ULg–KULeuven, Belgium
- 2014 Smithsonian American Ingenuity Award for Physical Sciences
- 2014 Doctor Honoris Causa, Ghent University, Belgium
- 2013 Physics World Breakthrough of the Year Award for making the first observation of cosmic neutrinos
- 2013 University of Wisconsin Hilldale Award
- 2012 Affiliated Distinguished Professor, Technische Universität München, Germany
- 2008 Watkins Professor, Wichita State
- 2006 International Helmholtz Award of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany
- 2005 Doctor of Philosophy Honoris Causa, Uppsala University, Sweden
- 1995 Fellow of the American Physical Society
