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…
Vincent Marandon
Vincent Marandon has been the main responsible person for the calibration of H.E.S.S. data in Germany, which is crucially important for data analysis from both H.E.S.S. I and H.E.S.S. II. Vincent has spent 3…
François Brun
François Brun made important contributions both to the commissioning and the analysis tools for the large (28 m) H.E.S.S. telescope, CT5. He was responsible for the Central Trigger system during the installation of CT5…