Societies, Committees, Conferences,
and other Engagements

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Awards, Honors, Invitations

• Visiting Professorship at Beihang University, Beijing (China) (2018-)
  
• Fellowship of National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (J) (2016)
  
• Fellow of the American Physics Society (2015-)
• Visiting Professorship and Guest Lecturer, University of Sao Paulo (BR) (2015)
• Visiting Professorship and Guest Lecturer, NAOJ and Tokyo University, Tokyo (J) (2013)
• Visiting Professorship and Guest Lecturer, University, UPC, Barcelona (E) (2007)
  
• Godfrey Visiting Professorship and Guest Lecturer, Clemson, SC (USA) (1996)
  

National and International Positions

• ESA's User Group of the INTEGRAL Space Observatory (nominated member, 2004-2020)
• Astroparticle Physics Committee ( KAT) in Germany,
  'Nuclear Astrophysics' representative (community-elected member, 2018-2022)
• ChETEC COST Action: Management Committee (nominated member, 2017-2022)
  
• School of Physics, Beihang University, Beijing, China (invited, 2018-today)
  (Visiting Professor in Nuclear Astrophysics at Int. Center for Multidisciplinary Science)
• RIKEN Nishina Center (Tokyo, Japan) Advisory Comittee Member (since 2019)
  

            and earlier:

• Member of the Senate of  the Max Planck Society (MPG) (2009-2015)
  
• Member of MPG's Science Council of MPG's CPT Section as elected scientist from the MPE (elected for period 2009-2015)
• KAT Komitee Astroteilchenphysik, elected member (2009-2015; deputy 2015-2018) for the field of Nuclear Astrophysics
  ( KHuK) and deputy KAT rep. in Germany's Astronomy Facility Coordination (RDS)
• Steering Committee of the  European Science Foundation's EuroGenesis Project
  (Origin of the Elements and Nuclear History of the Universe) (nominated, 2010-2013)
• Coordinator of Research Area G and Research Board Member of Munich Cluster of Excellence  "Origin and Evolution of the Universe" (2014-2018)
  
• Deputy coordinator of Research Area G of Munich Cluster of Excellence
  "Origin and Evolution of the Universe" (2008-2012)
• Chairman of Bethe-Prize Committee of the American Physics Society (2008)
  
• Advisory Board Member of JINA Virtual Institute for Nuclear Astrophysics (2003-2006)
• Head of User Committee for MPG's Computing Centre RZG (1993-1995)

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other Professional Societies
Memberships in:

Science Conferences and Workshops

Organizer of:

• Workshop on Superbubbles and Shells (Freising Germany, Nov 2014)
• Community Meetings German Nuclear Astrophysicists (Dec 2013; Sep 2014)

• ESF-Program "Origin of the Elements": EuroGenesis and
  MASCHE (massive stars and chemical evolution)
  
• EuroGenesis "The Origin of Elements" (Barcelona, E, Jun 2013)
  
• Observational Constraints on SNe and Massive Stars (Garching, Mar 2013)
  Masche Team Meeting (Frankfurt, Germany, Nov 2012)
• Chemical Evolution (Basel, CH, Nov 2011)
• EuroGenesis Initiation Workshop (Dubrovnik, SK, Nov 2010)
• EU COST Program Chemical Elements as Tracers of the Evolution of the Cosmos
• ChETEC Action website
• ChETEC meetings Keele, Budapest, Sofia, Split, Barcelona, ...
  

• Astronomy with Radioactivities Conference Series:
  
• Astronomy with Radioactivities VII (Phillip Island, Australia, 2011) ( Proceedings)
• Astronomy with Radioactivities VI (Ringberg, Germany, 2008) 
  
• Astronomy with Radioactivities V (Clemson, USA, 2005)
• Astronomy with Radioactivities IV, and Filling the Sensitivity Gap: MeV Gamma-Ray Telescopes (Seeon, Germany, 2003)
• Astronomy with Radioactivities III (Ringberg, Germany, 2001)
• Astronomy with Radioactivities II (Ringberg, Germany, 1999)
• Astronomy with Radioactivities I: The Radioactive Galaxy (Clemson, USA, 1996)

• "Galactic Positrons" (ISSI Bern, CH, 2009)
• "The radioactive Universe" (ISSI Beijing, China, 2018/2019)

• INTEGRAL Science Workshops
  
• INTEGRAL 15 years (Venice 2017) (Co-Org.)
  
• "5 Years of INTEGRAL" (Co-Org.)
• "7 Years of INTEGRAL" (Co-Org.)

• Munich Cluster of Excellence "Origin and Evolution of the Universe", Research Area G
  
  • Chemical Evolution Lecture Series by N. Prantzos (IAP Paris), Nov 2014)
    
  • Science with 60Fe (Garching, Jul 2008)
  •  The Origin of 44Ti (Garching, Jan 2009)

Science Advisory Board Member of the Conference Series of:

• Nuclei in the Cosmos (series; international; bi-annual)
  
• Nuclear Physics in Astrophysics (series; European/international; bi-annual)
  
• Nuclear Astrophysics Experiments in Germany (topical)
  
• INTEGRAL Science Workshop (series; European/international; bi-annual)

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Within the MPE

• INTEGRAL  (Project Leader at MPE, 2005-2020)
  
• SPI Co-PI and Spectrometer Science Analysis Coordinator
  (1998-; CoPI of SPI Instrument and ESA's  INTEGRAL User Group Member 2004-2019),
  
• FERMI/GBM Science Data Analysis (Co-I and Team Member, 2008-2019)
• Several Studies for Candidate Future Projects in High-Energy Astrophysics (White Papers and study participant, 2005 - 2019)
  

Science Projects

• Nuclear Astrophysics, Nucleosynthesis, and Gamma-ray Line Studies (Measurements and Data Analysis, Modelling and Astrophysical Interpretation)
  (MPE Science Project Leader, 2005-2019)
• Theory and Simulation Studies of Massive-Star Interactions with the ISM
  (Co-PI of Universe Cluster, various collaboration partners, a.o. USM and TUB)
  (2008-2019)
• Massive Star and Feedback/Chemical-Evolution Science (2010-2019)

• MPE's Gamma-Ray Group: Astrophysics Science and Projects Communications and Co-Coordinations (Deputy, w. V. Schoenfelder,
  J. Greiner) (<11/2009)
• Management of MPE's Gamma-Ray Group's Data Processing Resources (1982-2009)

• COMPTEL Data Reduction Group : Leader&Coordinator (1982-2004)