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Dr. rer. nat. Stefan Kraus
Curriculum Vitae:
since 2013 |
Ernest Rutherford fellow & Proleptic lecturer
University of Exeter |
2012-2013 |
SMA Fellow,
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics |
2009-2012 |
NASA Carl
Sagan Fellow,
Department of Astronomy, University of Michigan |
2007-2009 |
Post-doctoral researcher,
Max-Planck-Institut fuer Radioastronomie, Bonn,
Germany |
21 June 2007 |
PhD, Summa cum laude,
Mathematisch-Naturwiss. Fakultaet,
Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität, Bonn, Germany |
2004-2007 |
PhD research,
Max-Planck-Institut fuer Radioastronomie,
Bonn, Germany |
2003 |
Master of Science,
University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, USA |
2002-2003 |
Graduate Studies and Research
Assistant,
Department of Astronomy,
University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, USA |
2001 |
Vordiplom in Physics,
Ruprecht-Karls-Universitaet, Heidelberg, Germany |
1999-2002 |
Undergraduate Studies,
Fakultaet für Physik und Astronomie,
Ruprecht-Karls-Universitaet, Heidelberg,
Germany |
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Awards:
2009 |
Otto-Hahn Medal 2008
Max-Planck Society |
2008 |
Best PhD in Interferometry 2008 prize
SPIE Marseille, Astronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation |
1999 |
Samuel-Thomas von Soemmering
prize
Physikalischer Verein, Frankfurt |
Research Experience:
2010 |
ATCA array observations 36h,
CHARA MIRC, CLIMB, VEGA, CHAMP observations 19n, CHARA/CHAMP engineering, VLTI-AMBER observations, December UTs
1.75n |
2009 |
VLTI-AMBER observations,
April/May ATs 2n, December UTs 2n |
2008 |
VLTI-AMBER AT observations, GTO visitor mode
observations February/March 1.2n, March 3n,
May/June 6n, Cerro Paranal, Chile |
2007-2008 |
Development Programme
"Management in Science", Kempkes-Gebhardt Organisationsberatung |
2007 |
VLTI-AMBER AT observations, GTO visitor mode
observations May 5n, December 1.2n, Cerro Paranal, Chile |
2004-2007 |
Dissertation: "Infrared
Spectro-Interferometry of Massive Stars: Disks, Winds, Outflows, and Stellar
Multiplicity",
Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie, Bonn,
Germany
Advisor: Gerd Weigelt |
2007 |
VLTI-AMBER UT observations, OT visitor mode
observations January 1n, Cerro Paranal, Chile |
2006 |
VLTI-AMBER AT observations, AMBER AT Commissioning,
Cerro Paranal, Chile |
2005 |
Observations on Orion Trapezium
stars and YSOs with IOTA, Whipple Observatory, Mt. Hopkins, Arizona |
2004 |
Speckle observations of young
outflow sources with the MPIfR visitor instrument at the MMT, Whipple
Observatory, Mt. Hopkins, Arizona |
2003 |
Master Thesis: "Aperture
Synthesis Imaging of Close Binary Stars in the Infrared with the IOTA"
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Advisor: F. Peter Schloerb |
2002-2003 |
Observations of close binaries
with the IOTA-3T Interferometer, Whipple Observatory, Mt. Hopkins, Arizona |
2002 |
Observations on Be stars with the
HEROS spectrograph at the 2m telescope at Ondrejov, Czechoslovakia |
2002 |
Research Project: "FORS2 Spectroscopy of the
HH34/HH222 complex", Landessternwarte, Heidelberg
Advisor: Immo Appenzeller |
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