Volker Springel

Volker Springel is a German astrophysicist. He is Director of Computational Astrophysics at the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics in Garching.^[1]

Springel earned a degree in Physics from the University of Tübingen in 1996 and completed his PhD at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich in 1999.^[1] He is known in particular for his contributions to large-scale cosmological simulations; his 2005 paper on the Millennium Simulation has been cited more than 3,000 times and is the most cited astronomy paper ever published in Nature.^[2] In 2020, he shared the Gruber Prize in Cosmology with Lars Hernquist for their efforts to improve computational simulations.^[2] He won the Leibniz Prize the following year.^[3]