• Principal Investigator and Project Scientist, Staff Astronomer at MPIA
• PhD Astronomy, Cornell University 1990
• Science interests in star formation, dark matter
• Extensive experience in designing, building, and using near and mid-infrared
cameras and spectrographs (including Fabry-Perots, grism spectrographs, and integral field units).
• Time fraction devoted to LINC / NIRVANA: 60 %
N. N.
• (Position funded by Verbundforschung)
• Detector Scientist, MPIA
• Near infrared and visible wavelength detector optimization
and testing.
• Time fraction devoted to LINC / NIRVANA: 100 %
• Post-Doctoral Astronomer, MPIA
• PhD Astronomy, The Pennsylvania State University 2001
• Science interests in galaxy structure, kinematics, and evolution
• Extensive experience in instrumentation development, with an emphasis on spectrographs and integral field units.
• Time fraction devoted to LINC / NIRVANA: 75 %
PETER BIZENBERGER
• Optical Engineer, MPIA
• Masters of Engineering (Diplom) 1988, Heilbronn
• Optical design, cryogenic engineering, systems integration
and testing. Worked on the MAGIC, Max, Omega,
and Conica infrared instruments at MPIA.
• Time fraction devoted to LINC / NIRVANA: 40 %
CHRISTOPH LEINERT
• Consulting Scientist, Staff Astronomer at MPIA
• PhD, University of Heidelberg, 1968
• Science interests in star formation, binarity, extragalactic
background radiation, zodiacal light
• PI of the MIDI interferometric instrument on VLTI, PI of
the zodiacal light experiment on the HELIOS spacecraft.
• Time fraction devoted to LINC / NIRVANA: 5 %
HANS-WALTER RIX
• Co-Investigator, Director at the MPIA
• PhD, University of Arizona, 1991.
• Science interests in cosmology, galaxy evolution and Galactic
and galaxy structure.
• Co-I for Maestro Spectrograph at the MMT, Multi-Purpose Wide-Field-Camera
at Steward Observatory,
NGST Instrument Module Design Study.
• Time fraction devoted to LINC / NIRVANA: 10 %
ROBERTO RAGAZZONI
• Adaptive Optics Specialist, Professor at Arcetri
• Wolfgang Paul Prize Fellow
• Co-I LBT Prime Focus Cameras
• master of style
• Time fraction devoted to LINC / NIRVANA: 50 %
RALF-RAINER ROHLOFF
• Opto-Mechanical Engineer
• Masters of Mechanical-Optical Engineering (Diplom) 1985,
Jena Head of instrumentation design group at MPIA Heidelberg
• Instrument development - design and Finite Element Analysis
Fiber optics in astronomical interferometry.
UKIRT tip-tilt secondary upgrades program. Adaptive Optics System
ALFA for Calar Alto 3.5m telescope.
• Time fraction devoted to LINC: 25 %
ROBERTO SOCI
• Mechanical Engineer
• Time fraction devoted to LINC/NIRVANA: 100%
WENLI XU
• Optical Designer
• Time fraction devoted to LINC/NIRVANA: 100%