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PROFILEI am a senior Faculty member at the European Southern Observatory.Currently, I am working on the European Extremely Large Telescope Project as Project Scientist, and share my time between project work and astronomical research.
 On the project sideSince February 2008, I am supporting as Project Scientist the detailed design phase (B) of the European Extremely Large Telescope Project, the next European giant telescope which promises incredible scientific breakthroughs.Since early 2006, I am a member of the ESO/OPTICON Science Working Group for the E-ELT.
On the instrumentation sideBetween March 2000 and January 2008, I was active as Instrument Scientist in the Optical Instrument department, the Adaptive Optics department, and last in the NIR instrumentation department.I have acted as Instrument Scientist for the following instruments:
I am still actively promoting integral-field spectroscopy, until recently through the Euro3D Research Training Network.
On the science sideMy main scientific interests are the formation and evolution of stars and star clusters, the formation and evolution of galaxies, and in particular the star/cluster formation in interacting galaxies. This also includes studies on black holes in star clusters.More details can be found by scanning through the list of my recent papers.
I am involved on the Garching Campus in the
IMPRS Graduate School for Astrophysics, Since January 2007, I am chairing the ESO Astronomy Faculty (internal pages). Recently, we acquired six GRAPE boards for dedicated n-body simulations. Details can be found on the grape pages.
FURTHER INFORMATION
Talks, Interviews, etc of public interest:
Download here some recent talk of public interest.
AnnouncementsI am co-organizing two conference in 2008.
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