Richard Wielebinski

CV:

• Born 12 Feb 1936 in Pleszew, Poland
• Schooling in Hobart, Tasmania (1950-1953)
• University of Tasmania (1954-1958)
  Bachelor of Engineering (First Class Honours)
  Master of Engineering Science

  Engineer, Australian Post (1959-1960)

  Cavendish Laboratory, Trinity College, Cambridge (1960-1963)

  Doctor of Philosophy

  Lecturer/Senior Lecturer, University of Sydney (1963-1969)

  Director, Max-Planck-Institute für Radioastronomie, Bonn (1969-2004)

  Honorary Professor, Bonn University (since 1971)

  Foreign Member, Polish Academy of Sciences (1991)

  Max-Planck Research Prize (1992)

  Doctor of Science h. c., Nicolaus Copernicus University, Torun (1993)

  N. Copernicus Award, Polska Akademia Umiejetnosci, Krakow (1995)

  Emeritus Director, Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie (since 2004)

  Guest Research Professor, National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Science (2004)

  Academico Correspondiente, Academia de Ciencias de Granada, Spain (2006)

  Doctor h.c., Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland,(2007)

  Adjunct Professor (History of Astronomy), James Cook University, Townsville, Australia (2008)

  Doctor of Engineering h.c., University of Tasmania, Hobart (2008)

RESEARCH INTERESTS

• Instrumentation in radio astronomy
• Magnetic fields in the Universe
• Pulsars
• History of radio astronomy (member of an IAU Working Group)