2026 Rainer Hollerbach: Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering	37	2424	2266	180	163	167	4869

Research.com Recognitions

1999 - James B. Macelwane Medal, American Geophysical Union (AGU)
1999 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)

Overview

Rainer Hollerbach is affiliated with the University of Leeds in the United Kingdom and has contributed extensively to the field of Physics and Astronomy, with a particular focus on subfields such as Astronomy and Astrophysics, Molecular Biology, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, and Ocean Engineering.

Their main research topics include:

Geomagnetism and Paleomagnetism Studies
Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research
Solar and Space Plasma Dynamics
Magnetic confinement fusion research
Astro and Planetary Science
Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies
Geophysics and Sensor Technology

Hollerbach has published research in various academic journals, with frequent contributions to the following venues:

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
arXiv (Cornell University)
Physics of Plasmas
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences
Nature Astronomy

Among the recent papers associated with Hollerbach are:

"Evolution of Neutron Star Magnetic Fields" (2021), MDPI (MDPI AG)
"Strong toroidal magnetic fields required by quiescent X-ray emission of magnetars" (2020), Nature Astronomy
"Powering central compact objects with a tangled crustal magnetic field" (2020), Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
"Time-dependent probability density functions and information diagnostics in forward and backward processes in a stochastic prey-predator model of fusion plasmas" (2020), Physics of Plasmas
"Time-dependent probability density functions and information geometry of the low-to-high confinement transition in fusion plasma" (2020), Physical Review Research

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Hollerbach include:

Eun-jin Kim
Andrei P. Igoshev
Adrian J. Barker
Toby S. Wood
Nils B. de Vries

The scientist has been recognized with awards such as the Fellowship of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) in 1999 and the James B. Macelwane Medal from the American Geophysical Union (AGU) in the same year.

Best Publications

Influence of the Earth's inner core on geomagnetic fluctuations and reversals

Rainer Hollerbach;Chris A. Jones

252
Citations
A spectral solution of the magneto-convection equations in spherical geometry

Rainer Hollerbach

231
Citations
Experimental evidence for magnetorotational instability in a Taylor-Couette flow under the influence of a helical magnetic field.

Frank Stefani;Thomas Gundrum;Gunter Gerbeth;Günther Rüdiger

222
Citations
New type of magnetorotational instability in cylindrical taylor-couette flow.

Rainer Hollerbach;Rainer Hollerbach;Günther Rüdiger

208
Citations
Oscillatory internal shear layers in rotating and precessing flows

R Hollerbach;Richard R Kerswell

148
Citations
ON THE THEORY OF THE GEODYNAMO

Rainer Hollerbach

123
Citations
Helical magnetorotational instability in a Taylor-Couette flow with strongly reduced Ekman pumping

Frank Stefani;Gunter Gerbeth;Thomas Gundrum;Rainer Hollerbach

103
Citations
On the magnetically stabilizing role of the Earth's inner core

Rainer Hollerbach;Chris A. Jones

102
Citations
Magnetic Processes in Astrophysics: Theory, Simulations, Experiments

Günther Rüdiger;Leonid L. Kitchatinov;Rainer Hollerbach

101
Citations
Experimental evidence for nonaxisymmetric magnetorotational instability in a rotating liquid metal exposed to an azimuthal magnetic field.

Martin Seilmayer;Vladimir Galindo;Gunter Gerbeth;Thomas Gundrum

98
Citations
A self-consistent convection driven geodynamo model, using a mean field approximation

C.A. Jones;A.W. Longbottom;R. Hollerbach

98
Citations
Experiments on the magnetorotational instability in helical magnetic fields

Frank Stefani;Thomas Gundrum;Gunter Gerbeth;Günther Rüdiger

97
Citations
Instabilities of the Stewartson layer Part 1. The dependence on the sign of $Ro$

Rainer Hollerbach

89
Citations
Nonaxisymmetric magnetorotational instabilities in cylindrical Taylor-Couette flow.

Rainer Hollerbach;Vijaya Teeluck;Günther Rüdiger

89
Citations
Non-axisymmetric instabilities in basic state spherical Couette flow

Rainer Hollerbach;Markus Junk;Christoph Egbers

84
Citations
A geodynamo model incorporating a finitely conducting inner core

Rainer Hollerbach;Chris A. Jones

84
Citations
Destabilization of hydrodynamically stable rotation laws by azimuthal magnetic fields

Günther Rüdiger;Rainer Hollerbach;Manfred Schultz;Detlef Elstner

82
Citations
Instabilities of magnetically induced shear layers and jets

Rainer Hollerbach;Susan Skinner

80
Citations
Non-axisymmetric instabilities in magnetic spherical Couette flow

Rainer Hollerbach

77
Citations
Force-free and contactless sensor for electromagnetic flowrate measurements

J. Priede;D. Buchenau;G. Gerbeth

71
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Frank Stefani Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf

Gunter Gerbeth Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf

Laurette S. Tuckerman ESPCI Paris

Michael R. E. Proctor University of Cambridge

Christopher C. Finlay Technical University of Denmark

Friedrich H. Busse University of Bayreuth

Hans-Peter Bunge Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

Bruce A. Buffett University of California, Berkeley

Carlo F. Barenghi Newcastle University

Peter Olson University of New Mexico

External Links

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