People / Rudolf Dvorak

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Rudolf Dvorak und Christian Theis

Rudolf Dvorak

Rudolf Dvorak (born 1946) read Astronomy, Physics, Mathematics and Philosophy, graduated in 1972 and habilitated in 1977. In the mid-70s he was involved in research work at the Paris Observatory. Since 1984 Dvorak has held various teaching posts at the Institut für Astronomie of Vienna University. In 1991 he was appointed a professor and taught at a number of different universities in Europe, Asia and the United States. Between 1984 and 2008 Dvorak organized every fourth year the Alexander von Humboldt Colloquium, an international symposium. He is the editor of the symposium’s specialist journal, “Proceedings”, and associate editor of “Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy”. Between 1990 and 1995 he was deputy head of the Institut für Astronomie at Vienna University, a post he has now held again since 2007; since 1994 he has been head of the working group ADG (Astrodynamics Group) at the Institut für Astronomie at Vienna University; in 2004 he became the director of the Helmholtz Sommerschule für Supercomputational Physics in Potsdam. He is the editor of the collected volume “Chaos and Stability in Planetary Systems” (LNP 683) and in 2008 he edited the collected volume “Extrasolar Planets: Formation, Detection and Dynamics” (Wiley-VCH).