National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia

Members / Foreign Members

Felix Aharonian

Specialization: Astrophysics of High Energy, Cosmology

Place of birth: Yerevan

Date of birth: 23/05/1952

Membership:	Foreign Member
Date of Election:	28.11.2008
Country:	Germany
Phone number:	(+49-6221) 516 485 (Germany), +353-86-7358222 (Ireland)
Fax:	(+49-6221) 516 324 (Germany)
E-mail:	felix.aharonian {[ at ]} mpi-hd.mpg.de, felix.aharonian {[ at ]} dias.ie

Education

Graduated from Moscow Engineering Physics Institute, Dr of Phys. and Math. Sciences (1987)

Positions

Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies (DIAS), Dublin, Ireland, Director of the Centre for Astr-PArticle Physics and Astrophysics, Head of High Energy Astrophysics Theory Group at Max Plank Institut fuer Kernphysik (MPIK), Heidelberg, Germany

Membership of other Organizations

External Member of Max Planck Society, Germany, Foreign member of NAS RA (2008), Member of the Royal Irish Academy (2012)

Honors

Rossi Prize of the American Astronomical Society (2010), Academician Viktor Ambartsumian International Scientific Prize (2014)