On April 27, Prof. Peter Hanggi, Leading Researcher at UNN Institute for Supercomputing, was awarded the title of Doctor Honoris Causa (Dr. h.c.) by Lobachevsky University Academic Council.

Professor Peter Hanggi is a world-leading scientist in the areas of theoretical physics including statistical physics, the Brownian motion theory, Brownian Motors, Stochastic Resonance, classical and quantum dissipative systems.

He received a PhD in theoretical physics in 1977 from the University of Basel. In 1986, he became a permanent professor at the Institute of Physics of the University of Augsburg, Germany, after working for seven years at Polytechnic Institute of New York.

Professor Peter Hanggi has received many awards in recognition of his contribution to science. The degrees of Doctor of Sciences honoris causa were conferred on him by the University of Silesia, the University of Barcelona, the University of Camerino, Kazan State University, the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Beijing Normal University, the Humboldt University Berlin, the University of Seville and the Bogolyubov Institute for Theoretical Physics. He is an elected member of the German National Academy of Sciences LEOPOLDINA, the European Academy of Sciences (EURASC) and the Academia Europaea.

He was the editor of New Journal of Physics for 11 years. He is now Editor-in-chief of the European Journal of Physics B.

He received, among many international awards, the RIKEN Eminent Scientist Award, the Smoluchowski medal from the Jagellonian University in Krakow, the prestigious Lindhard Lecture Award 2010, the Lars Onsager Medal 2011 and the 2014 Distinguished Scientist Award and Medal from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel.

Peter Hanggi has published over 625 papers in leading international journals (85 = H-index; total citation index is over 35,000). In 2010 he was named in a list of the most highly cited scientists.

His collaboration with Lobachevsky University began in 2015. He leads a project researching quantum attractors (‘Towards Quantum Attractors: Computational Physics of Open Quantum Nanosystems far from Equilibrium’). The project is supported by the Russian Science Foundation. Project results are published in papers. One paper was published in the prestigious journal Nature Communications on February 8, 2016 (Learn more)

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