Since May 2016 Volker Beckmann is scientific deputy director for computing and data science at CNRS / IN2P3.
Research interests:
- Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN)
- high-energy astrophysics (e.g. INTEGRAL, Swift, Fermi, SVOM)
- deep optical/IR surveys (e.g. Euclid)
Programmatic activities:
- scientific deputy director at CNRS / IN2P3 for the domain computing and data science
- student supervision (PhD and master students)
- member of the LHC Experiments Committee and chief reviewer of LHC computing
- editor-in-chief of Computing and Software for Big Science
- chair of EU-T0
- work package leader within the EOSCpilot project
- member of the MICADO committee and responsible for the CNRS-EOSC working group
Selected scientific publications:
- Beckmann & Shrader 2012, "Active Galactic Nuclei", text book, Wiley-VCH
- Beckmann, Jean, Lubinski, Soldi, & Terrier 2011, "The hard X-ray emission of Centaurus A", A&A, 531, A70
- Beckmann, Soldi, Ricci, et al. 2009, "The Second INTEGRAL AGN Catalogue", A&A 505, 417
- Beckmann, Soldi, Shrader, Gehrels, & Produit 2006, "The Hard X-ray 20-40 keV AGN Luminosity Function", ApJ, 652, 126
- Beckmann, Gehrels, Shrader, & Soldi 2006, "The First INTEGRAL AGN Catalog", ApJ, 638, 642
- Beckmann, Engels, Bade, & Wucknitz 2003, "The HRX-BL Lac sample - Evolution of BL Lac objects", A&A, 401, 927