instruments for the ESA Herschel Space Telescope, the James Webb Space Telescope and the European Southern Observatory telescopes, the construction of the Large Binocular Telescope in Arizona, the Spitzer Legacy Project "Formation of Planetary Systems", several Herschel Legacy Projects, the Pan-STARRS Survey and the HAT South Transit Network. He is also a fellow of the Max Planck School "Matter to Life", co-investigator of the Heidelberg Excellence Cluster "Structures", co-investigator of the EDEN Transit Survey for the search for Earth-like planets around M stars, co-investigator of the Heidelberg-Chile TESS Exoplanet Network, head of the MPIA laboratory "Origins of Life" and founding member of the European Astrobiology Institute. In 2019, he received an ERC (European Research Council) grant of 2.5 million euros for his project "From Planet-Forming Disks to Giant Planets". He was and is a member of a number of astronomical steering and advisory bodies, including the ESO Council, the CAHA Board, the Board of Directors of LBT and PS1, and the Scientific Advisory Board of the Thuringian State Observatory in Tautenburg. Honours and awards Thuringian Research Award of the German federal state of Thuringia in the field of fundamental research (1998) Fellow of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina (since 2000) Naming of the asteroid 1992 SG2 to (30882) Tomhenning (2009) ESA JWST Significant Achievement Award (2013) Adjunct professor – Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, School of Natural Sciences, Mumbai, India (2016) Cozzarelli Prize (PNAS) of the National Academy of Sciences (2017) Honorary member of the Hungarian Academy of Science (2019) Adjunct Professor – Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan (2019) References External links Journal articles by Thomas Henning in the ADS data base Video Henning on his research on the formation of planetary systems 1956 births Living people 20th-century German physicists German astrophysicists 21st-century German physicists Max Planck Institute directors University of Greifswald alumni University of Jena alumni Academic staff of the University of Jena