| Harald Baumeister |
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Opto-Mechanical Engineer, MPIA
Masters of Engineering (Diplom) 1994, University of Stuttgart
Email: baumeister@mpia-hd.mpg.de
Website: –
Instrument design and development, Finite Element Analysis, cryo-mechanics, LAICA, OMEGA2000, MIDI, PYRAMIR, PRIMA DDL, LAIWO.
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| Peter Bizenberger |
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Optical Engineer, MPIA
Masters of Engineering (Diplom) 1988, Heilbronn
Email: biz@mpia-hd.mpg.de
Website: www.mpia-hd.mpg.de/homes/biz/
Optical design, cryogenic engineering, systems integration and testing. Worked on the MAGIC, Max, OMEGA, and CONICA infrared instruments at MPIA.
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| Jose Luis Borelli |
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Software Engineer LBT-Software workpackage IIF
Computing Engineer, UNT Argentina, 2004
Email: borelli@mpia-hd.mpg.de
Website: –
Development Instrument-Telescope Interface. Object-Oriented Programming. Concurrency, multi-treads and socket support in Linux with C++.
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| Wolfgang Gaessler |
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Physicist, MPIA
Diploma in Physics 1996, University Heidelberg
Email: gaessler@mpia.de
Website: –
Deputy Project Manager of LINC-NIRVANA, LN Software and AO. Building of astronomical instrumentation with focus on wide field adaptive optics. Scientific interests in cosmology and quantum gravity.
Extensive experience in software design and programming, system engineering and optomechanical design, testing and operating of visual and infrared astronomical instrumentation.
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| Roland Gredel |
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Staff astronomer at MPIA
PhD in Astrophysics, Heidelberg University, 1987
Email: gredel@mpia-hd.mpg.de
Website: –
Science interests in physics and chemistry of the interstellar medium and star forming regions, optical, near-infrared and sub-mm spectroscopy, modelling of molecular excitation processes.
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| Thomas Henning |
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Director, Department of Planet and Star Formation at MPIA
PhD in Astrophysics, Jena University, 1984
Email: henning@mpia-hd.mpg.de
Website: www.mpia.de/homes/henning/
Early stages of star formation, massive star formation, protoplanetary disks and planet formation, exoplanets and brown dwarfs, physics and chemistry of the interstellar medium, laboratory astrophyiscs.
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| Tom Herbst |
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LINC Principal Investigator, Staff Astronomer at MPIA
PhD Astronomy, Cornell University 1990
Email: herbst@mpia-hd.mpg.de
Website: www.mpia-hd.mpg.de/homes/herbst/
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).
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| Martin Kürster |
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LINC-NIRVANA Project Manager, Astronomer, Head of MPIA technical and engineering departments, Project leader LBT-Software workpackages IIF and GCS
PhD in Physics, LMU Munich, 1992
Email: kuerster@mpia-hd.mpg.de
Website: –
Scientific interests: extrasolar planets, stellar activity. Extensive experience in telescope and instrument operations, spectrographs and imagers.
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| Werner Laun |
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Cryogenic Engineer at MPIA
Masters of engineering in applied physics (Diplom), Rüsselsheim, 1990
Email: laun@mpia-hd.mpg.de
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Cryostat concept, design, integration and test for LINC-NIRVANA and LUCIFER.
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| Michael Lehmitz |
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Electrical and Electronics Engineer at MPIA
Masters of engineering (Diplom), Mannheim, 1999
Email: lehmitz@mpia-hd.mpg.de
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Electronics and electrical design, manufacturing and system integration of LUCIFER instrument control electronics.
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| Rainer Lenzen |
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LUCIFER Co-Investigator, Staff Astronomer at MPIA
PhD Astronomy, Munich 1978
Email: lenzen@mpia-hd.mpg.de
Website: www.mpia-hd.mpg.de/homes/lenzen/
Science interests in star formation and interstellar material. Special emphasis on high spatial Astronomy (Adaptive Optics). Extensive experience in designing, building, and using near and mid-infrared cameras and spectrographs.
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| Lars Mohr |
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Electrical and Electronics Engineer at MPIA
Masters of engineering (Diplom), Mannheim, 2002
Email: mohr@mpia-hd.mpg.de
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Electronics and electrical design, manufacturing and system integration of LINC-NIRVANA instrument control electronics.
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| Vianak Naranjo |
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Detector Engineer at MPIA
Masters of engineering (Diplom), Mannheim, 2003
Email: naranjo@mpia-hd.mpg.de
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Characterization of infrared detectors, performance tests and tolerance verification of different instrument components.
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| Hans-Walter Rix |
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Director at the MPIA
PhD, University of Arizona, 1991.
Email: rix@mpia-hd.mpg.de
Website: www.mpia-hd.mpg.de/homes/rix/
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.
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| Ralf-Rainer Rohloff |
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Opto-Mechanical Engineer
Masters of Mechanical-Optical Engineering (Diplom) 1985,
Jena Head of instrumentation design group at MPIA
Email: rohloff@mpia-hd.mpg.de
Website: –
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. |
