Curriculum Vitae
Education and Employment
2017-2025 Managing Director, Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research
2011- Director, Department “Solar and Stellar Interiors”, MPI for Solar System Research, Germany
2011- Full Professor (W3), Institute for Astrophysics, Physics Faculty, University of Göttingen, Germany
2005-2011 Max Planck Research Group Leader (W2), Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, Germany
2003-2005 Research Associate, Stanford University, USA
2003 PhD in Physics, Stanford University, USA
Selected Honors and Awards
2024 Lecturer, Crafoord Symposium in Astronomy 2024, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Stockholm
2023 Plenary Speaker – AIP Inverse Problems, Goettingen, Germany
2020 Biermann Lecturer, Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics
2018 Synergy Grant, European Research Council
2017 Group Achievement Award (SDO Team), NASA
2016 Robert H. Goddard Team Award for Exceptional Achievement for Science (SDO Team), NASA
2015 Visiting Professor, National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, Tokyo
2014- Member, PLATO Science Advisory Team
2014-2025 Board Member, Göttingen Research Council
2013-2016 Editorial Board Member of journal Solar Physics
2012- Coinvestogator, SUNRISE balloon-borne solar telescope
2012 NASA Group Achievement Award for Enabling SDO Scientific Results
2011- Elected Board Member, Eur. Solar Physics Div., European Physical Society
2011- Scientific Member, Max Planck Society for the Advancement of Science
2010- Board Member, PLATO Mission Consortium
2009 - 2011 Adjunct Professor (apl.), Institute for Astrophysics, University of Göttingen
2009-2011 Organizing Committee, IAU Commission “Solar Radiation and Structure”
2009 Karen Harvey Prize, American Astronomical Society
2008- Coinvestigator, Polarimetric and Helioseismic Imager (PHI) on Solar Orbiter
2007 ERC Starting Grant, European Research Council
2006- Board Member, European Helio- and Asteroseismology Network
2005 JOSO Prize, Joint Organization for Solar Observations