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  • 2026 - Research.com Physics in Germany Leader Award
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  • 2022 - Research.com Physics in Germany Leader Award
  • 2020 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 2016 - German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina - Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina – Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften Physics

Overview

Volker Springel is affiliated with the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics in Germany. Their research primarily focuses on physics and astronomy, with significant contributions to subfields such as astronomy and astrophysics, instrumentation, nuclear and high energy physics, computational mechanics, and statistical and nonlinear physics.

The scientist's main topics of study include the formation, evolution, and phenomena of galaxies, astronomy and astrophysical research, astrophysics and star formation studies, cosmology and gravitation theories, astrophysics and cosmic phenomena, stellar, planetary, and galactic studies, as well as theoretical and experimental particle physics.

Their publication record includes notable papers such as:

  • The many lives of active galactic nuclei: Cooling flows, black holes and the luminosities and colours of galaxies (2024, OPAL (Open@LaTrobe) (La Trobe University))
  • The AREPO Public Code Release (2020, The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series)
  • Simulating cosmic structure formation with the gadget-4 code (2021, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society)
  • Universal structure of dark matter haloes over a mass range of 20 orders of magnitude (2020, Nature)
  • Introducing the thesan project: radiation-magnetohydrodynamic simulations of the epoch of reionization (2021, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society)

Frequent co-authors of Volker Springel include:

  • Rüdiger Pakmor
  • Lars Hernquist
  • César Hernández-Aguayo
  • Rahul Kannan
  • Mark Vogelsberger

The scientist commonly publishes in venues such as:

  • Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Astronomy and Astrophysics
  • The Astrophysical Journal

Volker Springel has been recognized by election to scientific academies. This includes being named a Member of the National Academy of Sciences in 2020, as well as membership in the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina in 2016, particularly within the field of physics.

Best Publications

  • The Cosmological simulation code GADGET-2

    Volker Springel

  • Simulations of the formation, evolution and clustering of galaxies and quasars

    Volker Springel;Simon D. M. White;Adrian Jenkins;Carlos S. Frenk

  • The many lives of active galactic nuclei: cooling flows, black holes and the luminosities and colours of galaxies

    Darren J. Croton;Volker Springel;Simon D. M. White;G. De Lucia

  • Energy input from quasars regulates the growth and activity of black holes and their host galaxies

    Tiziana Di Matteo;Volker Springel;Lars Hernquist

  • Modelling feedback from stars and black holes in galaxy mergers

    Volker Springel;Tiziana Di Matteo;Lars Hernquist

  • The Aquarius Project: the subhalos of galactic halos

    Volker Springel;Jie Wang;Mark Vogelsberger;Aaron Ludlow

  • Cosmological smoothed particle hydrodynamics simulations: a hybrid multiphase model for star formation

    Volker Springel;Lars Hernquist

  • Introducing the Illustris Project: simulating the coevolution of dark and visible matter in the Universe

    Mark Vogelsberger;Shy Genel;Volker Springel;Volker Springel;Paul Torrey

  • Populating a cluster of galaxies - I. Results at z=0

    Volker Springel;Simon D. M. White;Giuseppe Tormen;Guinevere Kauffmann

  • E pur si muove: Galilean-invariant cosmological hydrodynamical simulations on a moving mesh

    Volker Springel

  • The Aquarius Project: the subhaloes of galactic haloes

    Volker Springel;Jie Wang;Mark Vogelsberger;Aaron Ludlow

  • GADGET: a code for collisionless and gasdynamical cosmological simulations

    Volker Springel;Volker Springel;Naoki Yoshida;Simon D.M. White

  • A Unified, Merger-driven Model of the Origin of Starbursts, Quasars, the Cosmic X-Ray Background, Supermassive Black Holes, and Galaxy Spheroids

    Philip F. Hopkins;Lars Hernquist;Thomas J. Cox;Tiziana Di Matteo

  • Simulating galaxy formation with the IllustrisTNG model

    Annalisa Pillepich;Annalisa Pillepich;Volker Springel;Volker Springel;Dylan Nelson;Shy Genel;Shy Genel

  • From dwarf spheroidals to cDs: Simulating the galaxy population in a LCDM cosmology

    Qi Guo;Simon White;Michael Boylan-Kolchin;Gabriella De Lucia

  • First results from the IllustrisTNG simulations: matter and galaxy clustering

    Volker Springel;Volker Springel;Rüdiger Pakmor;Annalisa Pillepich;Rainer Weinberger

  • First results from the IllustrisTNG simulations: the stellar mass content of groups and clusters of galaxies

    Annalisa Pillepich;Annalisa Pillepich;Dylan Nelson;Lars Hernquist;Volker Springel;Volker Springel

  • Properties of galaxies reproduced by a hydrodynamic simulation

    Mark Vogelsberger;Shy Genel;Volker Springel;Volker Springel;Paul Torrey

  • From dwarf spheroidals to cD galaxies: simulating the galaxy population in a ΛCDM cosmology

    Qi Guo;Simon White;Michael Boylan-Kolchin;Gabriella De Lucia

  • The large-scale structure of the Universe

    Volker Springel;Carlos S. Frenk;Simon D. M. White

Frequent Co-Authors

Lars Hernquist
Lars Hernquist Harvard University
Simon D. M. White
Simon D. M. White Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics
Shy Genel
Shy Genel Columbia University
Carlos S. Frenk
Carlos S. Frenk Durham University
Adrian Jenkins
Adrian Jenkins Durham University
Julio F. Navarro
Julio F. Navarro University of Victoria
Naoki Yoshida
Naoki Yoshida University of Tokyo
Stefano Borgani
Stefano Borgani University of Trieste
Amina Helmi
Amina Helmi University of Groningen

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