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Galaxy Formation and Evolution, Astrobiology, Stellar Populations, Telescopes and Instrumentation, Observatory management
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Biography

Since July 2017, I am working again at the European Southern Observatory in Garching, serving as Deputy Director for Science.

Between 2012 and 2017, I served as the Director of the Gemini Observatory. Gemini is an international parternship between Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Chile and the United States, with headquarters in Hilo, Hawaii and La Serena, Chile. The observatory is operating two 8m-class telescopes - one on top of Maunakea in Hawaii, the other on Cerro Pachon in Chile.

I am an adjunct Professor (Privatdozent) at the Ludwig-Maximilians University Munich, where I have been teaching since 2005. In 2015, I taught as affiliated faculty at the University of Hawaii in Hilo.

From 2000 to 2012, I was a senior Faculty member at the European Southern Observatory. Since 2008, I was working as the Project Scientist for the European Extremely Large Telescope Project, and shared my time between project work and astronomical research.

As for my early careeer: I obtained my PhD in early 1997 from the University of Bonn, then moved on postdoctoral position (partly on a Feodor-Lynen stipent from the Humboldt Foundation) to the University of California Observatories at the UC Santa Cruz where I have spent nearly two years. I came to ESO in late 1998 on a fellowship and moved on a faculty position in early 2000 to serve as instrument scientist. Over the next years, I worked on the instruments VIMOS, SINFONI, HAWK-I and KMOS.

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Employment (6)

European Space Astronomy Centre: Villanueva de la Canada, ES

2019-02 to present | Head (Science and Operations Department)
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European Southern Observatory: Garching, Bayern, DE

2017 to 2019-01 | Deputy Director for Science (Science Directorate)
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Gemini Observatory: Hilo, HI, US

2012 to 2017 | Director
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European Southern Observatory: Garching, Bayern, DE

2000 to 2012 | Faculty (Instrumentation Division / ELT Project)
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European Southern Observatory: Garching, Bayern, DE

1998 to 2000 | Fellow (Science Division)
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University of California Santa Cruz: Santa Cruz, CA, US

1997 to 1998 | Postdoctoral researcher (UCO/Lick Observatory)
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Education and qualifications (3)

Rheinische Friedrich Wilhelms Universität Bonn: Bonn, Nordrhein-Westfalen, DE

1996 to 1997 | Dr. rer. nat. (PhD)
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European Southern Observatory: Garching, Bayern, DE

1994 to 1996 | PhD (Science Division)
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Rheinische Friedrich Wilhelms Universität Bonn: Bonn, Nordrhein-Westfalen, DE

1988 to 1993 | Diplom (Department of Physics)
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