HESS PRIZE

2016

Växjö

Heike Prokoph

Heike made outstanding contributions to the H.E.S.S. experiment on topics bridging various working groups, from instrument, via analysis and reconstruction to the Extragalactic science working group. She was co-leading an effort to solve a large discrepancy at low energies between the two Monte-Carlo simulation chains that are used in H.E.S.S. Understanding this discrepancy ultimately allowed us to analyse and publish the high-impact paper on the Vela Pulsar emission observed with the H.E.S.S.-II telescope. Heike also shaped the H.E.S.S. target-of-opportunity programme in a major way, which is now one of the cornerstones of the H.E.S.S. science operations in the multi-messenger era.