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Dr. rer. nat. Stefan Kraus


Curriculum Vitae:

since 2009 NASA Carl Sagan Fellow,
Department of Astronomy, University of Michigan
2007-2009 Post-doctoral researcher,
Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie, Bonn, Germany
21 June 2007 PhD, Summa cum laude,
Mathematisch-Naturwiss. Fakultät, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität, Bonn, Germany
2004-2007 PhD research,
Max-Planck-Institut für 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-Universität, Heidelberg, Germany
1999-2002

Undergraduate Studies,
Fakultät für Physik und Astronomie, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität, Heidelberg, Germany


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