Forschungsinteressen
I am a physicist working in the following fields: small bodies in the solar system, comets, cosmic dust, solar system formation, solar system plasmas.
Vita
Education and Employment:
Since 2004: Research Scientist, Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, Göttingen
2004: Habilitation University of Heidelberg
1996 – 2004: Research Scientist, Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics, Heidelberg
1993 – 1996: Postdoc, Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, Heidelberg
1992: Dr. rer. nat. University of Göttingen
1989: Diploma in Physics, University of Göttingen
Team Memberships in Space Projects:
PI of the GALILEO dust instrument DDS
PI of the ULYSSES DUST instrument
Co-I of the CASSINI Cosmic Dust Analyzer
Co-I of the Rosetta COSIMA instrument
PI of the PHILAE Dust Impact Monitor SESAME-DIM
Member of the PHILAE COSAC science team
Member of Bepi Colombo SERENA/PICAM and MPPE/MSA science team
Science Team Lead for the DESTINY+ Dust Analyzer (DDA) onboard Jaxa's DESTINY+ mission
Co-I of the Circum-Martian Dust Monitor (CMDM) onboard JAXA's MMX mission (Martian moons)
Other Activities and Memberships
Chair of the ESA working group "Physical Properties of comet 67P/C-G" for scientific planning of the Rosetta mission
Member of the International Astronomical Union
Member of the German Astronomical Society
Member of the Division of Planetary Sciences of the American Astronomical Society
Teaching at University of Göttingen
Public Outreach
Selected Publications:
Krüger, H. et al. (2024), Modeling the interstellar dust detections by DESTINY+ I: Instrumental constraints and detectability of organic compounds. Planetary and Space Science, 254, 106010. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pss.2024.106010
Krüger, H., Strub, P., Grün, E. (2024), Ulysses spacecraft in situ detections of cometary dust trails, Philosophical Transactions A, 382(2273), 20230200. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2023.0200
Simolka, J. et al. [incl. Krüger, H.] (2024), The DESTINY+ Dust Analyser — a dust telescope for analysing cosmic dust dynamics and composition, Philosophical Transactions A, 382(2273), 20230199. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2023.0199
Fränz, M. et al. [incl. Krüger, H.] (2024), Spacecraft Outgassing Observed by the BepiColombo Ion Spectrometers, Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 129 (1), e2023JA032044. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023JA032044
Poppe, A. et al. [incl. Krüger, H.] (2023), The Interactions of Interstellar Dust with our Heliosphere, Decadal Survey for Solar and Space Physics (Heliophysics) 2024-2033 white paper e-id. 327, Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, 55(3), e-id. 327. https://doi.org/10.3847/25c2cfeb.3a119191
Krüger, H. et al. (2021), Modelling cometary meteoroid stream traverses of the Martian Moons eXploration (MMX) spacecraft en route to Phobos, Earth, Planets and Space, 73 (1), article id.93. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40623-021-01412-5, or: https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2103.16112