Hannah Elfner was born on Hannah Petersen; October 12,1982 and is a German physicist who is head of simulations at the Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research and professor of physics at the Goethe University Frankfurt.
11 Facts About Hannah Elfner
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Hannah Elfner was named the 2021 Alfons and Gertrud Kassel Foundation Scientist of the Year.
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Hannah Elfner graduated in 2006, and remained at Goethe for her doctoral research supported by Deutsche Telekom.
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Hannah Elfner became interested in the influence of the initial and final states on the trajectory of heavy ion collisions.
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Hannah Elfner developed a hadronic transport approach known as SMASH.
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Hannah Elfner's model predicted that the dynamics and viscosity of the plasma depends on the initial state and any quantum fluctuations.
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In 2011, Hannah Elfner was appointed a visiting professor at Duke University where she was based in the quantum chromodynamics group.
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Hannah Elfner decided to return to Germany because of the creation of the accelerator FAIR.
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Hannah Elfner was appointed a Helmholtz Young Investigator in 2012, and a research fellow at the Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies the following year.
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Hannah Elfner was one of the youngest researchers to ever be appointed professor in Germany.
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Hannah Elfner was made Head of Simulations at the Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research in 2018.