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Pavel Kroupa
Pavel Kroupa (born 24 September 1963, Jindřichův Hradec, Czechoslovakia) is a Czech-Australian astrophysicist and professor at the University of Bonn, Germany, where he holds a position at the Helmholtz-Institut für Strahlen- und Kernphysik (HISKP). He also holds an affiliation with the Astronomical Institute of Charles University in Prague, where he was named Professorem Hospitem in 2017.
Kroupa leads the Stellar Populations and Dynamics Research (SPODYR) group. He is internationally recognised for his foundational contributions to the theory of the stellar initial mass function (IMF), the dynamics of binary star systems and star clusters, the Integrated Galactic Initial Mass Function (IGIMF) theory, and for his research critically examining the standard ΛCDM cosmological model and exploring Milgromian dynamics (MOND) as an alternative framework.
He is the author of 389 refereed publications cited more than 32,800 times, with an h-index of 84 as of March 2026. In 2024 he was listed among the top-ranked scholars of all time across all fields by ScholarGPS, as the top scholar at Charles University in Prague and sixth at the University of Bonn.
Kroupa was born on 24 September 1963 in Jindřichův Hradec, Czechoslovakia. When the Prague Spring failed in August 1968 and Warsaw Pact forces invaded, his father fled the country with him on the first night of the invasion.
The family subsequently lived in: Kassel, West Germany (1968–1972); Pretoria, South Africa (1972–1977); Göttingen, West Germany (1977–1983); and Perth, Western Australia (1983–1988). He attended the Christian Brothers' Catholic School in Pretoria and the Theodor-Heuss-Gymnasium in Göttingen, the latter until 1983.
Kroupa holds dual Australian and Czech citizenship.
Kroupa commenced physics studies at the University of Western Australia (UWA), Perth, in 1984. In 1986–87 he held a Summer Vacation Scholarship at Mount Stromlo Observatory, Australian National University, Canberra. He graduated in 1988 with a first-class BSc (Honours) in physics from UWA, supervised by Dr. David Blair and Dr. Ron Burman.
In 1988 he was awarded an Isaac Newton Studentship by the University of Cambridge and selected for membership at Trinity College. He commenced his PhD in astrophysics at the Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge, supervised by Dr. Gerard F. Gilmore, with Christopher A. Tout as mentor. In January–March 1991 he was a Visiting Research Fellow at the University of California, Santa Cruz. In October 1991 he was awarded the Senior Rouse Ball Research Studentship by Trinity College.
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Pavel Kroupa
Pavel Kroupa (born 24 September 1963, Jindřichův Hradec, Czechoslovakia) is a Czech-Australian astrophysicist and professor at the University of Bonn, Germany, where he holds a position at the Helmholtz-Institut für Strahlen- und Kernphysik (HISKP). He also holds an affiliation with the Astronomical Institute of Charles University in Prague, where he was named Professorem Hospitem in 2017.
Kroupa leads the Stellar Populations and Dynamics Research (SPODYR) group. He is internationally recognised for his foundational contributions to the theory of the stellar initial mass function (IMF), the dynamics of binary star systems and star clusters, the Integrated Galactic Initial Mass Function (IGIMF) theory, and for his research critically examining the standard ΛCDM cosmological model and exploring Milgromian dynamics (MOND) as an alternative framework.
He is the author of 389 refereed publications cited more than 32,800 times, with an h-index of 84 as of March 2026. In 2024 he was listed among the top-ranked scholars of all time across all fields by ScholarGPS, as the top scholar at Charles University in Prague and sixth at the University of Bonn.
Kroupa was born on 24 September 1963 in Jindřichův Hradec, Czechoslovakia. When the Prague Spring failed in August 1968 and Warsaw Pact forces invaded, his father fled the country with him on the first night of the invasion.
The family subsequently lived in: Kassel, West Germany (1968–1972); Pretoria, South Africa (1972–1977); Göttingen, West Germany (1977–1983); and Perth, Western Australia (1983–1988). He attended the Christian Brothers' Catholic School in Pretoria and the Theodor-Heuss-Gymnasium in Göttingen, the latter until 1983.
Kroupa holds dual Australian and Czech citizenship.
Kroupa commenced physics studies at the University of Western Australia (UWA), Perth, in 1984. In 1986–87 he held a Summer Vacation Scholarship at Mount Stromlo Observatory, Australian National University, Canberra. He graduated in 1988 with a first-class BSc (Honours) in physics from UWA, supervised by Dr. David Blair and Dr. Ron Burman.
In 1988 he was awarded an Isaac Newton Studentship by the University of Cambridge and selected for membership at Trinity College. He commenced his PhD in astrophysics at the Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge, supervised by Dr. Gerard F. Gilmore, with Christopher A. Tout as mentor. In January–March 1991 he was a Visiting Research Fellow at the University of California, Santa Cruz. In October 1991 he was awarded the Senior Rouse Ball Research Studentship by Trinity College.