Horst Stöcker (born 1952 in Frankfurt, West Germany) is a German theoretical physicist and Judah M. Eisenberg Professor Laureatus at J.W. Goethe – Universität, Frankfurt. Biography Horst Stöcker studied physics, chemistry, mathematics and philosophy at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universität, Frankfurt am Main, where he got his Dr. phil.nat. in 1979. He went on to GSI and – as a DAAD – postdoctoral fellow – to LBL, UC Berkeley. Stöcker joined the faculty of physics and astronomy at Michigan State University and the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory, NSCL, in 1982. 1985 Stöcker moved on to a professorship for Theoretical Physics and Astrophysics at Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität in Frankfurt am Main, where Stöcker holds the Judah M. Eisenberg- endowed Chair since 2000. From 2000 – 2003 Stöcker was twice elected Vicepresident at Goethe Universität, Frankfurt, for science, mathematics, computer science, IT and high performance computing, HPC, for the medical school and for the Universitäts – Klinikum, the Hospital of Goethe Universität. He was re-elected ViP for a third time 2006–2007. Horst Stöcker is Senior Fellow, and, with Walter Greiner and Wolf Singer, Founding Director and chair of the executive board at the international interdisciplinary Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies (FIAS) – a public-private scientific foundation for theoretical research in fundamental science, natural science and computational life science, of Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main. Horst Stöcker was the scientific chairman and CEO (director general) at the GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research, 2007 – 2015. 2008 Stöcker was elected Vice-President of Helmholtz Gemeinschaft Deutscher Forschungszentren HGF for the Research Area "Struktur der Materie", 2008, and was reelected 2010–2012. Horst Stöcker is co-founder of the International Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research FAIR in Europe, Helmholtz International Center for FAIR, HIC for FAIR, Helmholtz Institut Jena, HIJ, Helmholtz Institut Mainz, HIM, Helmholtz International Graduate School, HiRe for FAIR, FAIR Russia Research Center, FRRC Moscow, Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, FIAS, Frankfurt International Graduate School for Sciences, FIGSS, FAIR Center for International Collaboration at CCNU, Wuhan. Honors „Judah M. Eisenberg Professor Laureatus für Theoretische Physik“, at Goethe Universität Frankfurt am Main Doctor honoris causa of the Russian Academy of Sciences, RAS, Moscow, Russia Doctor honoris causa of the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna, Russia Doktor honoris causa of the University of Bucharest, Romania Fellow of the European Physical Society, EPS, London, Great Britain Fellow of the Institute of Physics, IoP, London, Great