2026 Ulrich Sperhake: Engineering and Technology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

D-Index & Metrics

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Engineering and Technology	38	8176	7885	516	489	79	4658

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Engineering and Technology

8176

7885

516

489

4658

Engineering and Technology

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Citations

4658

World Ranking

8176

National Ranking

516

Research.com Recognitions

2016 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For important contributions to numerical studies of binary black hole systems, including leading work on recoil velocities following astrophysical mergers, and pioneering efforts exploring the highspeed collision problem of relevance to superPlanck scale physics

Best Publications

Calibration of moving puncture simulations

Bernd Brügmann;José A. González;José A. González;Mark Hannam;Sascha Husa

444
Citations
Superradiant instabilities in astrophysical systems

Helvi Witek;Helvi Witek;Vitor Cardoso;Vitor Cardoso;Akihiro Ishibashi;Ulrich Sperhake

267
Citations
Comment on "Kerr black holes as particle accelerators to arbitrarily high energy".

Emanuele Berti;Emanuele Berti;Vitor Cardoso;Vitor Cardoso;Leonardo Gualtieri;Frans Pretorius

197
Citations
High-spin binary black hole mergers

Pedro Marronetti;Wolfgang Tichy;Bernd Brügmann;Jose González;Jose González

195
Citations
High-energy collision of two black holes.

Ulrich Sperhake;Vitor Cardoso;Vitor Cardoso;Frans Pretorius;Emanuele Berti

194
Citations
Testing gravitational-wave searches with numerical relativity waveforms: Results from the first Numerical INJection Analysis (NINJA) project

Benjamin Aylott;John G. Baker;William D. Boggs;Michael Boyle

189
Citations
Where post-Newtonian and numerical-relativity waveforms meet

Mark Hannam;Sascha Husa;José A. González;José A. González;Ulrich Sperhake

179
Citations
Exploring black hole superkicks

Bernd Brügmann;José A. González;José A. González;Mark Hannam;Sascha Husa

176
Citations
Mining information from binary black hole mergers: A Comparison of estimation methods for complex exponentials in noise

Emanuele Berti;Vitor Cardoso;José A. González;Ulrich Sperhake

163
Citations
Cross section, final spin, and zoom-whirl behavior in high-energy black-hole collisions.

Ulrich Sperhake;Vitor Cardoso;Vitor Cardoso;Frans Pretorius;Emanuele Berti;Emanuele Berti

158
Citations
Reducing phase error in long numerical binary black hole evolutions with sixth-order finite differencing

Sascha Husa;José A González;José A González;Mark Hannam;Bernd Brügmann

157
Citations
Effective potentials and morphological transitions for binary black hole spin precession.

Michael Kesden;Davide Gerosa;Richard O'Shaughnessy;Emanuele Berti

138
Citations
Effective potentials and morphological transitions for binary black-hole spin precession

Michael Kesden;Davide Gerosa;Richard O'Shaughnessy;Emanuele Berti

138
Citations
Dynamics and gravitational wave signature of collapsar formation

Christian David Ott;Christian Reisswig;Erik Schnetter;Evan O'Connor

123
Citations
Numerical simulations of single and binary black holes in scalar-tensor theories: Circumventing the no-hair theorem

Emanuele Berti;Emanuele Berti;Vitor Cardoso;Leonardo Gualtieri;Michael Horbatsch

121
Citations
Eccentric binary black-hole mergers: The transition from inspiral to plunge in general relativity

Ulrich Sperhake;Emanuele Berti;Emanuele Berti;Vitor Cardoso;Vitor Cardoso;Jose A. Gonzalez;Jose A. Gonzalez

118
Citations
Gravitational wave extraction in simulations of rotating stellar core collapse

Christian Reisswig;Christian David Ott;Ulrich Sperhake;Erik Schnetter

110
Citations
Black-hole binary simulations: The mass ratio 10:1

José A. González;José A. González;Ulrich Sperhake;Ulrich Sperhake;Bernd Brügmann

108
Citations
Deflection of light and particles by moving gravitational lenses

Olaf Wucknitz;Ulrich Sperhake

73
Citations
Numerical relativity for D dimensional axially symmetric space-times: Formalism and code tests

Miguel Zilhão;Helvi Witek;Ulrich Sperhake;Vitor Cardoso;Vitor Cardoso

72
Citations