Achim Schwenk

Achim Schwenk is a German physicist. He became a professor at the Institute of Nuclear Physics at the Darmstadt University of Technology in 2009.

Achim Schwenk
NationalityGerman
Alma materStony Brook University
Scientific career
FieldsNuclear physics
InstitutionsTechnische Universität Darmstadt

Professional Activities

Honors

  • 2010: ARCHES Prize, BMBF and Minerva Foundation
  • 2011: Athene Teaching Award, TU Darmstadt
  • 2012: ERC Starting Grant
  • 2012: Fellow of the American Physical Society
  • 2013: Zdzislaw Szymanski Prize
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gollark: What, in *number* or *pay* or what?
gollark: I don't think you can just point at that as a final answer. What is that graph even showing growth in? Why is competition not creating an incentive to get rid of useless administrators? *Is* there even much competition?
gollark: I think the point is more that it's a system which mostly works well and has produced lots of nice things.
gollark: At some point you'll have to make tradeoffs, because going for "maximize lives saved right now at all costs" is a really terrible strategy.


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