since 10/2014 NASA Postdoctoral Program Fellow under supervision of Dr. Mark Clampin; Project: "Passing the exoplanet spectrophotometry torch: from HST and SOFIA to future JWST observations"
8/2012 - 8/2014 Post-doctoral research associate at Rensselear Polytechnic Institute (RPI), NY Center for Astrobiology under supervision of Prof. J. A. Morse and Dean of Science Dr. Laurie Leshin
12/2010 - 7/2012 Post-doctoral research fellow at Sternwarte Hamburg, Hamburg University under supervision of Prof. G. Wiedemann
Degree Dr. rer. nat., 14. December 2010, '"Spectroscopic characterization of extrasolar planets from ground-, space- and airborne-based observatories" (adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2010PhDT.......210A)
05/2009 - 12/2010 Ph.D. studies at German SOFIA Institute, University Stuttgart under supervision of Prof. A. Krabbe
09/2008 - 04/2009 Ph.D. studies, DAAD-fellow at NASA-JPL, California Institute of Technology under supervision of Dr. M. Swain
08/2006 - 08/2008 Ph.D. studies at I. Physikalisches Institut der Universitaet zu Koeln under supervision of Prof. A. Krabbe
10/1999 - 08/2006 Diploma physics, Universitaet zu Koeln
Publication list:
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/basic_connect
Exoplanet club:
asd.gsfc.nasa.gov/seminars/exoplanetclub.html
If you'd like to give a talk, or wish to be added to the seminar email list, please send me an email.
Links:
NASA feature on future and current exoplanet photometry: http://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/finding-new-worlds-with-a-play-of-light-and-shadow
New scientist web feature on our Exo-Trojan work: https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn28016-kepler-sees-hints-of-asteroids-pursuing-planets-near-other-stars/
Astrobites on the first SOFIA exoplanet observation: astrobites.org/2015/08/14/sofia-or-american-sniper/
Blog post on SOFIA observation: approach.rpi.edu/2013/11/14/my-night-with-sofia/
Press release/interview about ’eyeball-earths’ paper: www.astrobio.net/exclusive/5462/eyeball-earths
Presentation at AbGradCon 2013: www.youtube.com/watch
A video of the first SOFIA exoplanet flights: www.youtube.com/watch
3 min presentation at Famelab regional finals at RPI 2014: www.youtube.com/watch
Warm-up talk on planetary atmospheres at AbGradCon2014:www.youtube.com/watch