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Biography
Ahmad A. Hujeirat (25 October 1961) is a German-Israeli astrophysicist and computational mathematician.

Hujeirat was born in Nazareth/Israel. He began his studies in applied mathematics at the Technion/Israel, where he completed his Master's degree under the supervision of Oded Regev, Mario Livio and Nadav Liron in 1988. In October 1989, he moved then to Heidelberg University in Germany, where he completed his doctorate thesis in applied mathematics under the supervision of Rolf Rannacher. As a postdoc, he worked with Harold York at Würzburg University, Max Camenzind at the Landessternwarte of Heidelberg, Andreas Burkert at the Max-Planck Institute for Astronomy/Heidelberg, Jean Heyvaerts in Strasbourg observatory, Friedrich-Karl Thielemann at Basel University and John Papaloizou at the Queen Mary College in London.

In 2006 he was awarded Venia decondi for his habilitation in physics at Basel University, and in 2011, the Venia Legendi in astronomy at the University of Heidelberg. Since 2009 he has led the group on computational astrophysics and algorithm design at the Interdisciplinary Center for Scientific Computing of Heidelberg University.