Prof. Dr. Stefan Funk

Physics Insitute
Chair of Physics

Room 02.036
Nikolaus-Fiebiger-Str. 2
91058 Erlangen

Phone number: +49 9131 85-70727
Email: s.funk@fau.de
Website: https://ecap.nat.fau.de/index.php/person/prof-dr-stefan-funk/

Secretariat

Gabriele Eckner
Room: Room 02.031
Nikolaus-Fiebiger-Str. 2
91058 Erlangen
- Phone number: +49 9131 85-70734
- Email: gabriele.eckner@fau.de

Before coming to ECAP Stefan Funk was a faculty member in the Physics department at Stanford University and the SLAC National Accelerator Center in the Kavli Center for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology (KIPAC). His research in the field of astroparticle physics is centered on the search for the origin of cosmic rays and the understanding of dark matter. He is a member of the Fermi-LAT (Large Area Telescope) satellite detector and of the H.E.S.S.-Experiment (High Energy Stereoscopic System), a system of imaging Cherenkov telescopes, located in Namibia. He is a member of the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA), a next-generation flagship astroparticle physics project to observe gamma rays at the highest energies. Since November 2014 he holds the chair of physics at FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg.

Curriculum Vitae

since Nov. 2014: Professor (Ordinarius) for Physics at the FAU University Erlangen-Nürnberg
2013 – 2014: Associate Professor (Tenure) SLAC National Accelerator Center
2007 – 2013: Assistant Professor SLAC National Accelerator Center and Stanford University
2006 – 2007: Research Associate SLAC
2005 – 2006: Postdoc in the group of Werner Hofmann at MPI-K Heidelberg
2002 – 2005: PhD at the University of Heidelberg in the group of Werner Hofmann at MPI-K Heidelberg. Dissertation: The H.E.S.S. Galactic Plane Survey
2002: Diploma in physics at the Humboldt University Berlin. Diploma thesis in the group of Thomas Lohse.

Prizes and Awards:

2015 APS Fellow
2015&2016 Thompson Reuters Web of Science highly-cited researcher
2011 Bruno Rossi Prize of the AAS (as member of the Fermi-LAT Collaboration)
2010 Bruno Rossi Prize of the AAS (as member of the H.E.S.S. Collaboration)
2009 Shakti P. Duggal Award of the IUPAP
2006 Descartes Prize of the EU (as member of the H.E.S.S. Collaboration)

Publications

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2025

Glombitza, Jonas, et al. "Application of graph networks to a wide-field water-Cherenkov-based Gamma-ray Observatory." Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics 2025.2 (2025).
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2025/02/066
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Unbehaun, Tim, et al. "Improvements to monoscopic analysis for imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes: Application to H.E.S.S." Astronomy & Astrophysics 694 (2025).
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202452927
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Vogel, Naomi, et al. "Simultaneous two-colour intensity interferometry with H.E.S.S." Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 537.3 (2025): 2334-2341.
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stae2643
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2024

Bruers, Ben, et al. "Resource-aware research on Universe and Matter: call-to-action in digital transformation." European Physical Journal - Special Topics (2024).
DOI: 10.1140/epjs/s11734-024-01436-4
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Elflein, Christian, Stefan Funk, and Jonas Glombitza. "Ultra-fast generation of air shower images for Imaging Air Cherenkov Telescopes using Generative Adversarial Networks." Journal of Instrumentation 19.4 (2024).
DOI: 10.1088/1748-0221/19/04/P04010
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Glombitza, Jonas, et al. "Application of graph networks to γ/hadron separation in IACT image analyses." Proceedings of the 38th International Cosmic Ray Conference, ICRC 2023, Nagoya, JPN Sissa Medialab Srl, 2024.
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Leuschner, F., et al. "Validating Monte Carlo simulations for an analysis chain in H.E.S.S." Proceedings of the 7th Heidelberg International Symposium on High-Energy Gamma-Ray Astronomy, Gamma 2022, Barcelona, ESP Sissa Medialab Srl, 2024.
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Mohrmann, L., et al. "Revisiting HESS J1809−193 — a very-high-energy gamma-ray source in a fascinating environment." Proceedings of the 7th Heidelberg International Symposium on High-Energy Gamma-Ray Astronomy, Gamma 2022, Barcelona Sissa Medialab Srl, 2024.
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Schreiner, Stephan, et al. "Design of a Talbot phase-contrast microscopy imaging system with a digital detector for laser-driven X-ray backlighter sources." Journal of Instrumentation 19.5 (2024).
DOI: 10.1088/1748-0221/19/05/P05004
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Schwab, Benjamin, et al. "CTC and CT5TEA: An advanced multi-channel digitizer and trigger ASIC for imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes." Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment 1069 (2024).
DOI: 10.1016/j.nima.2024.169841
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Wegert, Leonard, et al. "Demonstrating grating-based phase-contrast imaging of laser-driven shock waves." Matter and Radiation at Extremes 9.4 (2024).
DOI: 10.1063/5.0200440
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White, Thomas G., et al. "Speed of sound in methane under conditions of planetary interiors." Physical Review Research 6.2 (2024).
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevResearch.6.L022029
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Zmija, Andreas, et al. "First intensity interferometry measurements with the H.E.S.S. telescopes." Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 527.4 (2024): 12243-12252.
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stad3676
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Prof. Dr. Stefan Funk