Heiko Salzmann
As a member of the H.E.S.S. group in Tübingen, Heiko has made multiple contributions to the hardware of the telescopes during his PhD thesis. He has been responsible for the monitoring of the optical…
Laura Olivera-Nieto
During her PhD thesis, Laura developed a new and innovative method for the rejection of background events that employs CT5, the biggest telescope of the H.E.S.S. array, as a detector for muons. These unstable…
Fabian Leuschner, Johannes Schäfer, Simon Steinmassl, Tim Lukas Holch
For the first time, the H.E.S.S. Prize has been awarded to a team rather than a single person: Fabian, Johannes, Simon, and Tim together formed the “MC validation team”. In a truly tremendous effort,…
Sylvia Zhu
Dr. Sylvia Zhu was awarded the H.E.S.S. prize for her contribution to efficient H.E.S.S. operations, the diligent and careful oversight of the H.E.S.S. data acquisition system (DAQ), coordination of the H.E.S.S. GRB team, and…
Lenka Tomankova
Dr. Lenka Tomankova was awarded the HESS prize for her contribution to enabling moon light and twilight observations with the H.E.S.S. telescopes. Lenka coordinated the moonlight task group that was established in 2019. Her…
Cornelia Arcaro
Cornelia Arcaro was awarded the HESS Prize in November 2020 for her tremendous work in recovering, maintaining and documenting the H.E.S.S. pointing models. The pointing models are used to calibrate the telescopes’ positioning systems,…
Lars Mohrmann
Lars has been awarded the H.E.S.S. prize for outstanding contributions to characterising the HESS-II instrument and shaping the reconstruction and analysis pipeline of the array. He served as one of the key developers of…
Clemens Hoischen
Clemens Hoischen has been awarded the H.E.S.S. Prize for his path-finding leadership of the H.E.S.S. transients program. Clemens designed and implemented a new, more flexible transient alert system, which is based on the VO…
Markus Holler
Markus Holler’s most outstanding contribution to H.E.S.S. was the tremendous work he did in the development of a new paradigm, namely the Run Wise Simulations. This new simulation framework not only paves the way…
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…