Norbert Werner


Norbert Werner

Norbert is an astrophysicist, a professor and the leader of the High-Energy Astrophysics research group. He is mainly interested in the hot atmospheres of galaxies and clusters of galaxies, black hole feedback, and in the use of nano-satellites in astrophysics.

Norbert earned his PhD at the Netherland's Institute for Space Research and Utrecht University in 2008, where he mainly worked on the physics and chemical enrichment of the hot gas permeating clusters of galaxies and the cosmic web. Then he spent 8 years at Stanford University, in the beautiful San Francisco Bay Area, mainly studying the influence of supermassive black holes on the hot gaseous haloes, investigating the faint and mysterious cluster outskirts, and working on preparations for the science with the Japanese ASTRO-H/Hitomi satellite. Between 2016 and 2020 he was the leader of the MTA-ELTE Lendulet Hot Universe research group in Budapest, where he helped to initiate the development of CubeSats to detect gamma-ray bursts.

Norbert and his team now continue their research activities in the Department of Theoretical Physics and Astrophysics thanks to the MUNI Award in Science and Humanities (MASH) grant from Masaryk University and an EXPRO grant from the Czech Science Foundation.

EDUCATION:
 
 
5/2008: PhD in Astrophysics “X-ray Spectroscopy of Clusters of Galaxies and of the Cosmic Web” at SRON Netherlands Institute for Space Research and Utrecht University, the Netherlands; PhD advisor: Dr. J.S. Kaastra and Prof. dr. F. Verbunt
 
5/2004: MSc in Astrophysics “Dynamics and Fragmentation of Sungrazing Comets” at P. J. Šafárik University, Košice, Slovakia; Advisor: Dr. Ľ. Neslušan
 
 

POSITIONS:
 
 
since 2022 Professor and the leader of the high-energy astrophysics research group in the Department of Theoretical Physics and Astrophysics at Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
 
2016 - 2022  Associate Professor, “Docent” (2016-2020 part time, 2020- full time) in the Department of Theoretical Physics and Astrophysics at Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
 
2016 - 2020 Leader of the MTA-ELTE Lendület Hot Universe Research Group (funded by the Hungarian Academy of Sceince) at Eötvös University
 
since 2017 Specially appointed visiting Assoc. Prof. in the School of Science at Hiroshima University, Japan
 
2013 - 2016 Research Associate Staff member in the Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology at Stanford University
 
2013 - 2014 Visiting Scientist at Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)
 
2008 - 2013 Einstein/Chandra Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, Stanford University

Selected Publications

Science with a small two-band UV-photometry mission I: Mission description and follow-up observations of stellar transients (adsabs)
N. Werner, J. Řípa, C. Thöne, F. Münz, P. Kurfürst, M. Jelínek, F. Hroch, J. Benáček, M. Topinka, G. Lukes-Gerakopoulos, M. Zajaček, M. Labaj, M. Prišegen, J. Krtička, J. Merc, A. Pál, O. Pejcha, V. Dániel, J. Jon, R. Šošovička, J. Gromeš, J. Václavík, L. Steiger, J. Segiňák, E. Behar, S. Tarem, J. Salh, O. Reich, S. Ben-Ami, M. F. Barschke, D. Berge, A. Tohuvavohu, S. Sivanandam, M. Bulla, S. Popov, H.-K. Chang, Feb 2024, Space Science Reviews.

Hot Atmospheres, Cold Gas, AGN Feedback and the Evolution of Early Type Galaxies: a Topical Perspective (arXiv).
Werner, N., McNamara, B. R., Churazov, E., Scannapieco, E. 2019, Space Science Reviews, 215, 5.

Atmospheric gas dynamics in the Perseus cluster observed with Hitomi (arXiv).
Hitomi collaboration [including Werner, N. as corresponding author] 2018, PASJ, 70, 9.

CAMELOT: Cubesats Applied for MEasuring and LOcalising Transients - Mission Overview (arXiv).
Werner, N., Řípa, J., Pál, A., Ohno, M., Tarcai, N., Torigoe, K., Tanaka, K., Uchida, N., Mészáros, L., Galgóczi, G., Fukazawa, Y., Mizuno, T., Takahashi, H., Nakazawa, K., Várhegyi, Z., Enoto, T., Odaka, H., Ichinohe, Y., Frei, Z., Kiss, L. 2018, SPIE, 10699, 2.

The origin of cold gas in giant elliptical galaxies and its role in fueling radio-mode AGN feedback (arXiv).
Werner, N., Oonk, J. B. R., Sun, M., Nulsen, P. E. J., Allen, S. W., Canning, R. E. A., Simionescu, A., Hoffer, A., Connor, T., Donahue, M., Edge, A. C., Fabian, A. C., von der Linden, A., Reynolds, C. S., Ruszkowski, M. 2014, MNRAS, 439, 2291.

A uniform metal distribution in the intergalactic medium of the Perseus cluster of galaxies (arXiv).
Werner, N., Urban, O., Simionescu, A., Allen, S. W., 2013, Nature, 502, 656.


For a complete list of publications see here.