Ulf-G. Meißner is a W3 professor for theoretical physics at Bonn University and head of the TH group at the HISKP. He is also a director at the Institute for Advanced Simulation (IAS-4) at Forschungszentrum Jülich.

Selected Research topics

• nuclear structure and reactions
• hadron spectrum and hadronic reactions
• effective field theories for axion coupled to matter
• strangeness nuclear physics
• nuclear lattice EFT
• electric dipole moments of hadrons and nuclei
• soliton models in hadron and nuclear physics

Selected Awards and Functions

• Spokesperson CRC 110 Symmetries and the Emergence of Structure in QCD (2012-2024)
• Advanced Grant “EXOTIC” from the European Research Council, 2021-2026
• Director, Bethe Center for Theoretical Physics, Univ. Bonn, 2020-2024
• Distinguished Scientist Award, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2018
• Doctor honoris causa, Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, Georgia, 2018
• Lise Meitner Prize of the European Physical Society, 2016
• German member of NuPECC (The Nuclear Physics European Collaboration Committee), 2016-
• CAS President’s Visiting Professorship, 2015, 2017
• Beller Lectureship Award of the APS, 2014
• Dean of the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Universität Bonn, 2008 -2016
• Spokesperson CRC 16 Subnuclear Structure of Matter (2008-2012)
• Elected member Academia Europaee, 2010
• Fellow American Physical Society, 2009
• Fachkollegiat der DFG, FK 309 “Teilchen, Kerne und Felder”, 2008-2012, 2020-2024
• Editor-in-Chief “European Physical Journal A”, 2007-2013
• Spokesperson HGF Virtual Institute “Spin and strong QCD”, 2007-2011
• Heisenberg Fellowship from the DFG, 1989