Werner Däppen
Professor Emeritus
Department of Physics and Astronomy
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA 90089-0484, U.S.A.
Phone: 213-740-0848
Fax: 213-740-8094
Email: dappen@usc.edu
EDUCATION
| Diploma (Physics) | ETH Zürich (Switzerland) | 1975 |
| Dr.Sc.Nat. (Theoretical Physics) | ETH Zürich (Switzerland) | 1978 |
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
| 2017- | Professor Emeritus | Department of Physics and Astronomy, USC |
| 2006-2012 | Department Chair | Department of Physics and Astronomy, USC |
| 1998-2017 | Professor | Department of Physics and Astronomy, USC |
| 1991-1998 | Associate Professor | Department of Physics and Astronomy, USC |
| 1988-1990 | Research Scientist | ESA-ESTEC (The Netherlands) |
| 1987-1988 | Research Scientist | CEA, Paris-Saclay (France) |
| 1986-1987 | Research Professor | Observatoire de Paris-Meudon (France) |
| 1984-1986 | Research Scientist | High Altitute Observatory, Boulder, Colorado |
| 1982-1984 | Postdoctoral Fellow | Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge (UK) |
| 1978-1981 | Postdoctoral Fellow | Observatoire de Genève (Switzerland) |
Visiting Positions
| 2012-2013 | Visiting Professor | Hamburg Observatory (Germany) |
| 2005-2006 | Visiting Professor | Constructor University Bremen (Germany) |
| 1999 (Spring) | Visiting Scientist | Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge (UK) |
| 1998 (Fall) | Visiting Scientist | Aarhus University (Denmark) |
| 1991-1992 | Visiting Lecturer | Institut für Astrophysics, Vienna (Austria) |
AWARDS
| General Education Teaching Award: for Distinguished Service to the General Education Program, College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, USC |
2007 |
| Associates Award for Excellence in Teaching, USC | 2004 |
| “Faculty of the Month Award”, Mortar Board, USC | 2001 |
| General Education Teaching Award, College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, USC | 2000 |
| Overseas Fellow, Churchill College, Cambridge (UK) | 1999 |
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Atomic physics (X-ray emission in ion-atom collisions); Stellar structure and evolution; Thermodynamics of stellar interiors; Solar and stellar oscillations; Long-term variations of the Sun; Solar neutrino problem (WIMPs); Lithium abundance in open cluster stars; Helioseismic diagnosis of the equation of state; Theory of reacting hot dense Coulomb plasmas; Many-body simulations of stellar nuclear fusion.
In 2004, as one of the three organizers of a topical workshop at the Lorentz Center (The Netherlands), I had an excellent opportunity to define a broad range of interdisciplinary topics related to stellar thermodynamics. The proceedings of the workshop were published by the American Institute of Physics (731).
INVITED TALKS (pdf)
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