Werner Hofmann (born November 11, 1952, in Baden-Baden) is a German professor of physics.
He is director of the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics in Heidelberg.
Since 1988 he is director at the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics in Heidelberg.
Hofmann's research areas include astroparticle physics, specifically high-energy gamma-ray astrophysics of detectors on the ground; CP violation; physics of heavy quarks; neutrinoless double beta decay; QCD; quark and gluon fragmentation; and physics of jets.
According to Geoffrey C. Fox, Hofmann's 1981 monograph Jets of Hadrons is "thorough" and "well-written".