Gerhard Borner

Gerhard Borner is professor for physics at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich and does research on the early universe and dark matter at the Max-Planck-Institute for Astrophysics in Garching near Munich. He got his PhD with a thesis in particle physics under supervision by Werner Heisenberg and Hans-Peter Durr. Gerhard Borner is the author of the successful graduate textbook "The Early Universe" (published by Springer now in its 4th edition) as well of several popular science books in...See more

Gerhard Borner is professor for physics at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich and does research on the early universe and dark matter at the Max-Planck-Institute for Astrophysics in Garching near Munich. He got his PhD with a thesis in particle physics under supervision by Werner Heisenberg and Hans-Peter Durr. Gerhard Borner is the author of the successful graduate textbook "The Early Universe" (published by Springer now in its 4th edition) as well of several popular science books in cosmology. In 2009 Professor Dr. Gerhard Borner was honored by the Chinese Academy of Sciences Award for International Cooperation in Science and Technology (together with Prof. Maurice-Roger Bonnet). In 2010 he received the "Friendship Award", and in January 2011 the National Award for Cooperation in Science and Technology of the Chinese government, the highest honors bestowed on foreigners. See less