Research topics

• Interaction between the Sun and the planets
• Ionospheric and atmospheric physics of the terrestrial planets
• Evolution of planetary atmospheres
• Analysis of the plasma spectrometer data from the Mars Express, MAVEN, Venus Express and BepiColombo missions
• Energetic charged particle acceleration
• Science preparation for the JUICE mission to Jupiter
• Instrumentation: design and development of the PEP/JEI detector of the JUICE spacecraft
• Planetary space weather

Professional Experience and Education

• 2001 - Today: Senior Scientist position at the MPI for Solar System Research
• 1995 - 2001: Research Assistant at the Astronomy Unit, Queen Mary College, University of London, UK
• 1991 - 1995: PhD student at the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, Lindau & University of Braunschweig, Germany
• 1990 - 1990: Computer simulation of coal power station exhaust at the Federal Institute of Health in Vienna, Austria
• 1983 - 1989: Mag.Phil.Nat. in Theoretical Physics at the University of Vienna, Austria
• 1981 - 1983: B.Sc. in physics at University of Würzburg, Germany

Publication List

Links  to  my  projects:

• Heliospheric Coordinate Systems
• Cluster CIS Project
• Mars Express Aspera Project
• Venus Express Aspera Project
• BepiColombo Particle Spectrometer
• JUICE PEP Particle Spectrometer
• CCATi Analysis Software
• My Private Homepage
  

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Last updated: 2015-07-16