Andreas Burkert

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Andreas Burkert is Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics and Full Professor and Chair of Computational Astrophysics at the University of Munich. Other current positions include that of Higgs Fellow and Vice-Coordinator of the Cluster of Excellence ‘Origin and Structure of the Universe’. From 2012 to 2014, he chaired the German Astrophysics Board of Directors. In 2006, he became a member of the European Academy of Art and Sciences. Burkert’s research focuses on dynamical processes in the universe, including the structure and formation of dark matter halos and the formation and evolution of galaxies. The International Astronomical Union (IAU) named a minor planet after him in 2011.