Curriculum Vitae: Heino Falcke Full Name: Heino Dietrich Erhard Falcke Title: Professor Gender: Male Date and place of birth: 26 September 1966, ,

Academic Qualifications: 1992 (Feb 13): Diploma in Physics, , thesis: “On the theory of radiation-driven accretion disk winds in quasars”, advisor: Prof. P.L. Biermann 1994 (Jul 4): Ph.D. in Astronomy, University of Bonn, thesis: „Starved Holes and Active Nuclei - the Central Engine in Galactic Centers”, summa cum laude, advisor: Prof. Biermann 2000 (Nov 15): Habilitation & venia legend, University of Bonn, thesis “The Silent Majority - Jets and Radio Cores from Weakly Active Black Holes“

Memberships in Academic Societies: Member of the International Astronomical Union (IAU) Member of the Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft (DPG) Member of the Astronomische Gesellschaft (AG) Member of the Academia Europaea Member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) Member of the Royal Dutch Association of Sciences (Koninklijke Hollandsche Maatschappij der Wetenschappen, KHMW)

Previous Employments: 1992-1994: Research assistant, University of Bonn (incl. 6 months parental leave) 1994-1995: Postdoctoral Max-Planck stipendiary, MPIfR Bonn, optical interferometry group 1995-1997: Research associate, University of Maryland at College Park & visit. sci. Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore 1997-1997: Postdoctoral researcher, MPIfR Bonn, VLBI group 1997-1999: DFG stipendiary (“Habilitations-Stipendium)”, lecturing at University of Bonn 1999: Visiting professor, Steward Observatory, , Tucson, USA 2000-2003: Staff scientist, MPIfR Bonn, VLBI group 2001-2003: Privatdozent (adjunct lecturer), University of Bonn 2003: Associate professor (Lehrstuhlvertretung, C3), 2003-2007: Senior scientist, ASTRON, Dwingeloo (NL) & adjunct professor of high-energy , Radboud University Nijmegen 2011-2012: Department Head, Astrophysics Department, Radboud University Nijmegen 2012-2017: Member National Institute for Subatomic Physics (NIKHEF), Amsterdam

Present Employment and Affiliations: 2007-present: Full professor of Astroparticle Physics and , Radboud University Nijmegen 2011-present: Guest scientist, Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie, Bonn 2020 Author, “Licht im Dunkeln: das Universum und wir“ (Klett-Cotta Verlag, 2020)

Functions in Academia: 1996-2003: Founder and Editor of the Galactic Center Newsletter (GCNEWS) 2002-2005: Chair of international SKA (Square Kilometer Array) science working group on black holes 2002-2005: Member of the International Scientific Advisory Committee 2006-2012: Member SKA Science Working Group 2003-2004: Chair of international SKA Outreach committee 2011-2012: European Project Scientist for the SKA 2004-2009: Co-Chair of EU FP6 network “Scientific Workshops” (within RADIONET I3 proposal) 2007-2010: Chair and deputy chair Committee for Astroparticle Physics in the Netherlands (CAN) 2007-2012: Key Researcher and coordinator of NOVA (NL Astronomy Research School & national ESO home base) Network 3 on High-Energy Astrophysics 2003-2010: LOFAR international project scientist, Member of various LOFAR technical and sci. committees, 2009-2011: Chair IAU working group “Astronomy on the ” 2010-2016: Chair and NL country representative International LOFAR Telescope (ILT) board 2010-2016: Chair NL LOFAR consortium (NL-LAC) 2003-2016: Spokesperson of the LOPES experiment at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) 2003-2016: Spokesperson of LOFAR Key-Science Project (KSP) “Cosmic Rays” 2003-2017: Member LOFAR Survey KSP, council member LOFAR Transients Key Science Project 2006-present: Netherlands country representative and member of AUGER collaboration 2014-present: Principal investigator (co-PI), BlackHoleCam project (funded by the ERC synergy grant) 2016-present: Principal investigator NCLE project, Chinese moon mission antenna payload Chang’e 4/Queqiao 2016-2020: Chair of the Telescope (EHT) Science Council 2017-present: Member NOVA Research Committee 2020: Chair of ERC COG20 Committee PE9

CV Heino Falcke, April 2021 1 2020-present: Jury Member Niels Stensen Fellowship 2021-2025: Vice-chair Examination board Radboud University 2021-2026: Jury Member Francqui Prize 2022: Chair of ERC COG22 Committee PE9

Academic Recognition: 2000 Ludwig-Biermann-Award for outstanding young scientist, Astronomische Gesellschaft, €2,500. 2006 Academy Award, Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften (former „Prussian Academy of Science), €20,000. 2006 Visiting Miller Professor, UC Berkeley 2008 European Research Council Advanced Investigator Grant, 3.5M€ science funding 2009 Helmholtz lecture, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin 2011 Spinoza award, highest Dutch science award, 2.5M€ science funding 2013 Appointed member of the Academia Europaea 2013 European Research Council Synergy grant, for imaging the event horizon of the in the center of our Galaxy (14 M€ science funding), together with M. Kramer/MPIfR Bonn & L. Rezzolla/University of Frankfurt 2014 Appointed member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) 2015 Hermesdorfprijs Internationaal, for recognition in international press, Radboud University Nijmegen 2016 Royal Knighthood in the order of the Netherlands Lion 2019 Academy medal, Akademie der Wissenschaften, Heidelberg 2019 19th Hintze lecturer, University Oxford 2020 Breakthrough Prize for Fundamental Physics (as part of Event Horizon Collaboration) 2020 American Association for Astronomy Rossi Prize (with EHT collaboration) 2020 Radboud University Faculty of Science Team Prize 2020 Honorary doctorate, Faculty of Protestant Theology and Religion Sciences (FPTR), Brussels (Ceremony postponed due to COVID19) 2020 Einstein Medal, together with S. Doeleman on behalf of the EHTC, Gesellschaft (Bern) (Ceremony postponed due to COVID19) 2020 Honorar doctorate, University of Novi Gorica, Vipava, Slovenia (Ceremony postponed due to COVID19) 2021 Merle Kingsley Distinguished Visitor, Caltech (Postponed from 2020 due to COVID19) 2021 Royal Astronomical Society 2020 Group Achievement Award (with EHT collaboration) 2021 National Academy of Sciences Henry Draper Medal 2021 Canadian Astronomical Society Robert M. Petrie Prize Lectureship

Scientific achievements

Heino Falcke is a theoretical astrophysicist and radio astronomer who made fundamental contributions to the understanding of black hole and cosmic particles. He developed a unified model to explain the broad-band emission and the jet-disk coupling of the vast majority of black holes and discovered the “fundamental plane relation”, connecting and unifying super massive and stellar mass black holes[2]. He pioneered the idea to image the “shadow of a black hole” with global millimeter-wave interferometry[1]. He co-founded the and contributed with his group and as chair of its science council to it. This led to the publication of the first ever image of a black hole in April 2019 [5]. He also co-developed the LOFAR telescope [4] and pioneered the detection of cosmic rays with radio antennas. The technique provides precision measurements of the cosmic ray composition and allows studying their origin. The method was successfully implemented in the LOFAR telescope[3] and is now integrated into the large Pierre Auger Observatory. Falcke is also PI of a low-frequency radio experiment (NCLE) on board of the Queqiao satellite behind the moon. This is the first pathfinder experiment launched to probe the dark ages of the early universe.

5 selected publications

1. Falcke, H., F. Melia, and E. Agol (2000), The Astrophysical Journal, 528, L13-L16 "Viewing the Shadow of the Black Hole at the Galactic Center" (529 cites) 2. Falcke, H., E. Körding, and S. Markoff (2004), Astronomy and Astrophysics, 414, 895-903 "A scheme to unify low-power accreting black holes. Jet-dominated accretion flows and the radio/X-ray correlation" (630 cites) 3. Falcke, H., and 75 colleagues (2005). Nature 435, 313. Detection and imaging of atmospheric radio flashes from cosmic ray air showers. (258 cites) 4. van Haarlem, M. P., and 200 colleagues (2013), Astronomy and Astrophysics, 556, A2 "LOFAR: The LOw-Frequency ARray" (1221 cites) 5. Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration, and 348 colleagues (2019), The Astrophysical Journal, 875, L1 "First M87 Event Horizon Telescope Results. I. The Shadow of the Supermassive Black Hole" (940 cites, member of writing team & internal corresponding author)

Citation Statistics:

Total Number of citations: 31,594 Papers with >=500 citations: 7 Papers with >=100 citations: 81 Hirsch-Index h=88 (h=number of papers with more citations than h) Normalized Hirsch-index m=3.0 (h divided by years since PhD)

CV Heino Falcke, April 2021 2 (statistics from NASA ADS http://adsabs.harvard.edu/ for author H. Falcke as of 2021-04-19).

CV Heino Falcke, April 2021 3