Curriculum Vitae of Christian Fendt

Born in Tübingen, Germany, 1962 Dec 20

Studies of physics, University of Tübingen, Vordiplom 1986.

Studies of physics, University of Heidelberg. Diplom in physics 1990.
Diplomarbeit (master thesis) at the Landessternwarte Heidelberg (State Observatory).

Studies of astronomy at the University of Heidelberg.
Dissertation in astronomy at the Landessternwarte Heidelberg (April 1994).

May 1994 - Jun 1996 postdoc at Lund Observatory, Lund, Sweden.

Aug 1996 - Apr 1997 research fellow at the SFB 328 (Landessternwarte) and the Max Planck Institute for Radioastronomy, Bonn, Germany.

May 1997 - Dec 2001 at the Astrophysikalisches Institut Potsdam (AIP), Potsdam, Germany, associated with the MHD group at the AIP.

Jan 2002 - Dec 2003 at the University of Potsdam (as well associated with the star formation group at the AIP).

May 2003 "Habilitation" (post-doctoral lecture qualification) and appointment as "Privatdozent" (assistent professor) for Astrophysics at Potsdam University.

Jan-Oct 2004 at the Astrophysikalisches Institut Potsdam and Potsdam University.
Scientific coordinator of the Helmholtz Institute for Supercomputational Physics.

Since Nov 2004 at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Heidelberg.
Staff scientist and scientific coordinator scientist of the International Max Planck Research School (IMPRS) for Astronomy and Cosmic Physics at the University of Heidelberg.

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