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Wolfgang Baumjohann
Wolfgang Baumjohann
Born	August 1950 (age 74) Hamm, North Rhine-Westphalia, Austria
Nationality	Austrian
Occupation(s)	Astrophysicist, academic

Wolfgang Baumjohann (born August 9, 1950) is an Austrian astrophysicist and academic. He was the director of the Institute of Space Research at the Austrian Academy of Sciences from 2004 to 2021.

Education and career

Baumjohann studied physics and geophysics at Münster University from 1969 to 1975, earning his doctorate in 1981 and working as a research assistant there until 1983. He became director of the Institute of Space Research in Graz in 2004, succeeding Hans Sünkel. He had joined the institute in 2001 as Riedler's successor and was also an adjunct professor at Munich University and an honorary professor at Graz University of Technology.

He received the Austrian Decoration for Science and Art award, in 2007.

In April 2022, Baumjohann was elected to the position of president of the Mathematical and Natural Sciences Class within the Austrian Academy of Sciences.

References

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• Astrophysicists
• Academic staff of the Graz University of Technology
• Academic staff of the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
• 1950 births
• Recipients of the Austrian Cross of Honour for Science and Art, 1st class
• Members of the Austrian Academy of Sciences
• Members of Academia Europaea
• Fellows of the American Geophysical Union
• Living people