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Harald Lesch is professor for Theoretical Astrophysics at the LMU and Professor for Philosophy of science at the Munich University of Philosophy. He is also very active in German public TV, as moderator of several science and science communication shows, but also on radio, as writer of popular books about physics, philosophy, natural science, climate change and renewable energies. On top he is the host of the popular youtube channel “Terra X – Lesch and Co”. His career connects various academic disciplines and communication topics centered on complex systems as scientific content (in particular astrophysics, climate science and philosophy of science) and inter- and transdisciplinary public engagement with science.

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Education
1994
Education

Habilitation at the Faculty of Natural Science and Mathematics, Bonn University

1987
Education

PhD in Physics (Thesis: “Nonlinear Plasma Processes in active galactic nuclei”), Bonn University

1979 - 1984
Education

Study of Physics Giessen and Bonn University

Current Positions
since 2015
Current Positions

Member of the board of trustees of the Deutsches Museum

since 2015
Current Positions

Member of the advisory board for climate change of the Bavarian government

since 2002
Current Positions

Professor for Philosophy of Science, Munich University of Philosophy

since 1995
Current Positions

Professor for Theoretical Astrophysics, LMU Munich

Previous Positions
1991 - 1995
Previous Positions

Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Radioastronomy in Bonn

1992 - 1992
Previous Positions

Professor at the University of Toronto, Canada

1988 - 1991
Previous Positions

Research Fellow at Landessternwarte Heidelberg-Königstuhl, Heidelberg

Awards for Science Communication in TV
2024
Awards for Science Communication in TV

Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art

2023
Awards for Science Communication in TV

Bundesverdienstkreuz 1. Klasse (Federal Cross of Merit 1st Class)

2020
Awards for Science Communication in TV

German Television Award for „Best Infotainment“ (Regular Science Show – Leschs Kosmos, ZDF)

2019
Awards for Science Communication in TV

Hanns-Joachim-Friedrichs- Award

2018
Awards for Science Communication in TV

German Television Award for „Best Infotainment“ (Luther-Trilogy – Terra X, ZDF)

2012
Awards for Science Communication in TV

Bavarian Television Award

Further Awards
2018
Further Awards

Cicero-Rhetoric Award

2012
Further Awards

University Professor of the Year (DHV)

2005
Further Awards

Communicator Award of the German science Foundation (DFG)

2005
Further Awards

Medal of the German Physics Society for best scientific publication

Selected Publications

2020

Wie Bildung gelingt, Forstner, U. and Lesch, H., wbg Verlag

2019

Was hat das Universum mit mir zu tun?: Nachrichten vom Rande der erkennbaren Welt, Lesch, H., C. Bertelsmann Verlag

2018

Wenn nicht jetzt, wann dann?, Lesch, H. and Kamphausen, K., Penguin

2017

Kosmologisch: Der Anfang von Allem – Die Entstehung des Himmels – Vom Stein zum Leben, Lesch, H., Komplett Media

2016

Die Menschheit schafft sich ab, Lesch, H. and Kamphausen, K., Komplett Media

2008

Die kürzeste Geschichte allen Lebens,  Lesch, H. and Zaun, H., Piper Verlag

2003

Big Bang 2. Akt, Auf den Spuren des Lebens im All, Lesch, H. and Müller, J. Bertelsmann