Arnim Balzer has served as the core data acquisition and array control system expert of the H.E.S.S. telescope system during his PhD and postdoc position in H.E.S.S. He has contributed significantly to on-call expert shift work, to the commissioning of the H.E.S.S. phase-2 system, and to the optimisation of the rapid follow-up system of external triggers. Arnim has also contributed to the H.E.S.S. data reconstruction framework and analysed the H.E.S.S. Crab nebula data recorded during a GeV flare measured with the Fermi-LAT telescope.
H.E.S.S. Prize Hall of Fame
The H.E.S.S. Prize
With the H.E.S.S. Prize, the collaboration acknowledges young scientists (PhD, postdoc, junior staff) who made outstanding service contributions to the experiment. Such contributions might range from hardware maintenance to various aspects of data handling including outstanding analyses (the development of a new analysis technique allowing a measurement not possible before) or a key contribution to an important scientific discovery. The prize is awarded at every collaboration meeting through a confidential vote by the Collaboration Board.