Positions
and Education |
| 2002– |
Professor, University of Heidelberg |
| 2001 – |
Director of
Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, Heidelberg |
| 2000
– 2002 |
Director of the Astrophysical Institute, University of Jena |
| 2000
– 2006 |
Co-Chair of the DFG Research Group "Laboratory Astrophysics” |
| 1999
– 2002 |
Chair for Astrophysics, Friedrich Schiller University Jena |
| 1992
– |
Professor
for Astrophysics, Friedrich Schiller University Jena |
| 1991
– 1996 |
Head of Max Planck Research Unit "Star Formation”, Jena |
| 1989
– 1990 |
Max Planck Institute for Radioastronomy, Bonn |
| 1986
– 1988 |
Assistant,
University Observatory Jena |
| 1984
– 1985 |
Post-Doc, Charles University Prague |
| 1984 |
PhD
in Astrophysics, Jena University |
| 1981 |
Diploma degree in Physics, Jena University |
|
Professional
Service and Associations |
| Speaker
of German DFG Programme "Physics of Star Formation”
(1995-2002) |
| Past Member of Strategic Working Group of ESO |
| Past Member
of Astronomy Working Group of ESA |
| Member
of SOFIA Science Council |
| Past Member
of European ALMA Board |
Member of ELT Design Study Steering Committee |
| Member of the ESO Council |
| Member of the Advisory Committees of the Kiepenheuer Institute for Solar Physics and the Thuringian State Observatory Tautenburg |
| Member
of AG (Astronomische Gesellschaft) and DPG (Deutsche Physikalische
Gesellschaft) |
| Scientific
Associate of ISOPHOT, MIDI (MIR interferometer instrument for
the VLTI), and HIFI (Herschel) instrument teams |
| Co-I
of infrared instruments FIFI-LS (SOFIA), PACS (Herschel), and
MIRI (JWST) |
| Co-PI of PRIMA astrometric planet search programme |
| Past Member of LBT Board |
| Past President of Scientific Council, European Interferometry Initiative |
| ESA/ESO Observer of the NASA/NSF Exoplanet Task Force
|
| Chair of the LBTB |
| Member Representative in the LBT Council |
| Member of the CAHA Executive Board |
| Panel Chair of the European Research Council for Advanced Investigator Grants (2008, 2010) |
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| Scientific
Interests |
| Star
and Planet Formation, Circumstellar Disks, Physics and Chemistry of
the Interstellar Medium, Laboratory Astrophysics, Infrared Instrumentation |
| |
| Awards
and Honorary Memberships |
| Prize
for Fundamental Research, State of Thuringia |
| 1999 - Member of the Leopoldina Academy |