Dimitrios Gouliermis
Max-Planck-Institut fur Astronomie, Heidelberg
I was born in Corfu, the beautiful blue-green
island of Greece. Since I was a boy I was fascinated
by trying to understand how nature works and my
first encounter with astronomy was through Carl
Sagan's "Cosmos", when I was about 10
years old. Then I decided that I want to learn more
about the stars. I studied physics at the University
of Athens, Greece, where I continued my Master's
and doctoral studies in Astronomy. During my PhD
I worked as a research student at the National Observatory
of Athens, Greece and the Observatory of the University
of Bonn, Germany. After an interruption of almost
two years, due to my service in the Hellenic Navy,
I returned to Astronomy and started my postdoctoral
work in Germany. Since 2003 I am a research associate
at the Max-Planck Institute for Astronomy in Heidelberg.
My main science interest is on the Large and Small
Magellanic Clouds, our neighboring dwarf galaxies,
and I study their extraordinary variation of young
stellar populations. Specifically, I am interested
in stellar and dynamical evolution of young star
clusters and recent star formation and the Initial
Mass Function in stellar associations of these galaxies.
I currently co-advise three diploma and one PhD
theses from the University of Heidelberg on these
subjects.
I enjoy taking pictures, traveling and cooking.
My life is constantly happy because of my sweet
wife Anthoula.
Wolfgang Brandner
Max-Planck-Institut fur Astronomie, Heidelberg
Wolfgang Brandner received his PhD from the Julius-Maximilians- University in Wuerzburg, Germany. He then worked as a post-doc at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, CA. In 1999, he took up a position as assistant astronomer at the University of Hawaii and participated in the commissioning and preparation of science operation of Hokupa'a, the 1st adaptive optics (AO) system on a 8m to 10m class telescope.
In early 2001, he became associate astronomer and adaptive optics instrument scientist at the European Southern Observatory in Garching, Germany, and was responsible for the commissioning of NACO, the 1st AO system for the Very Large Telescope in Chile. Since late 2002, he is a staff scientist at the Max-Planck-Institute for Astronomy in Heidelberg, Germany, and currently is also a visiting professor at the University of California, Los Angeles. His main science interests are star formation, and the study of substellar companions to nearby stars.
Thomas Henning
Max-Planck-Institut fur Astronomie, Heidelberg
Dr. Henning is currently the Director of the Max-Planck-Institut
fur Astronomie, Heidelberg, Department of Planet
and Star Formation. He has also been awarded the
Prize for Fundamental Research from the State of
Thuringia and has been a member of the Leopoldina
Academy since 1999.
Dr. Henning's research interests include star and
planet formation, exoplanets, circumstellar disks,
physics and chemistry of the interstellar medium,
Laboratory Astrophysics, infrared instrumentation.
He has also achieved the detection and characterization
of protoplanetary disks around young solar-type
stars and Brown Dwarfs, multidimensional radiation
hydrodynamics simulations of disk structure and
chemistry, detection of the earliest stages of massive
stars, first comprehensive characterization of cosmic
dust analogues
Andrew Dolphin
Raytheon Corporation
Dr. Dolphin received his Ph.D. in astronomy from
the University of Washington in 1999. He held a
postdoc at NOAO from 1999 through 2003, and at the
University of Arizona from 2003 through 2006. He
is currently working for Raytheon Corporation.
Dr. Dolphin's primary research interests involve
the studies of resolved stellar populations in nearby
galaxies. His research has centered on measuring
star formation histories and distances, as well
as work on star-forming regions. In addition, Dr.
Dolphin has worked on stellar photometry and calibration
of WFPC2 and ACS images.
Michael Rosa
European Southern Observatory - Germany
Dr. Michael
Rosa studied Physics and Astronomy at the University
of Heidelberg and the State Observatory Heidelberg,
receiving a diploma in Physics in 1978 and a PhD
in Astronomy in 1981. From 1982 to 1984 he held
a Fellowship at the Garching/Munich Headquarters
of the European Southern Observatory (ESO), from
where he joined the Space Telescope European Coordinating
Facility (ST-ECF, jointly operated by ESO and the
European Space Agency ESA) as an ST Instrument Information
Scientist, ESA staff.
In parallel to his scientific investigations (observationally
and theoretically) on photoionized nebulae (H II
regions) and the evolution of the most massive stars
which are generally located in such regions, Michael
early on developed a strong interest in the calibration
of data from astronomical instrumentation.
Bernhard Brandl
University Leiden
Dr. Brandl is currently an Associate Professor
of Astronomy at Leiden University in the Netherlands.
Dr. Brandl's scientific interests include massive
star clusters and starbursts, infrared spectroscopy
and instrumentation. He is a member of the instrument
teams of Spitzer-IRS, JWST-MIRI and E-ELT-MIDIR.
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