Schühle, Udo

Roles in space missions
- Co-Investigator of the SUMER instrument on SOHO (1995)
- Associate Scientist of the CDS instrument on SOHO (1995)
- Associate Scientist of the UVCS instrument on SOHO (1995)
- Co-Investigator of the Lyman-Alpha Radiometer (LYRA) instrument of the PROBA-2 mission (2003)
- Co-Investigator of the extreme-ultraviolet imager SWAP of the PROBA-2 mission (2003)
- Co-Investigator of NASA’s RAISE rocket program of SwRI (2002)
- Co-PI of the Lyman-Alpha telescope (HRILYA) of the Extreme Ultraviolet Imager on Solar Orbiter (2008)
- Co-Investigator of the Spectral Imaging of the Coronal Environment (SPICE) spectrograph on Solar Orbiter (2008)
- Co-Investigator of the Polarimetric and Helioseismic Imager (PHI) on Solar Orbiter (2008)
- Co-Investigator of the METIS coronagraph on Solar Orbiter (2008)
- Co-Investigator of the Extreme Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Telescope (EUVST) of the Solar-C mission (2017)
- Co-Investigator of the Multi-slit Solar Explorer (MUSE) mission (2020)

Memberships
- member of the German Physical Society (since 1985)
- member of the ”SOHO Cleanliness Review Board” of ESA(1991-1995)
- member of the ”SOHO Intercalibration Working Group” (1993 -1997)
- member of the BOLD consortium for the development of imaging detectors based on wide band gap materials (2002 - 2009)
- member of the ESA Payload Working Group of the Solar Orbiter mission (2002-2003)
- member of the Review Board of the eROSITA mission German Space Agency (DLR) (2006 - 2017)
- member of the definition group of the UV spectrograph for the Solar-C mission (2009 – 2010)
- member of the European Physical Society (since 2010)
- member of ESA's “Contamination Review Board” for Solar Orbiter (2012 – 2017)
- member of the definition group of the UV spectrograph for the Solar-C mission (2009 – 2010)

Education and Employment
- Diploma in Physics at University of Bielefeld (Germany) in 1982
- Ph D in Physics at University of Bielefeld (Germany) in 1985
- Post-doc of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft at SRI International in Menlo Park (CA, USA) 1986 - 1987    
- Scientific staff member of Max-Planck-Institut für Aeronomie since 1989
- Visitor at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center (MD, USA) for the initial operational phase of the SOHO mission 1995 – 1997
- Senior Scientist at MPS since 1997

Selected Publications

(among 171 journal and book articles and 72 conference contributions)

- The Lyman-alpha telescope of the extreme ultraviolet imager on Solar Orbiter, U. Schühle, J.-P. Halain, S. Meining, L. Teriaca, in Solar Physics and Space Weather Instrumentation IV, S. Fineschi, J. Fennelly (Eds.), Proc. SPIE, 81480K, 2011, DOI: 10.1117/12.893573

- The Lyman-α Emission in a C1.4 Solar Flare Observed by the Extreme Ultraviolet Imager aboard Solar Orbiter, Y. Li, Q. Li, D.-C. Song, A. Battaglia, H. Xiao, S. Krucker, U. Schühle, H. Li, W. Gan, M. D. Ding, Astrophysical Journal, 936,2, id.142, (2022), https://doi:10.3847/1538-4357/ac897c

- The Solar-C_EUVST mission, T. Shimizu, S. Imada, T. Kawate, K. Ichimoto, Y. Suematsu, H. Hara, Y. Katsukawa, M. Kubo, S. Toriumi, T. Watanabe, T. Yokoyama, C. M. Korendyke, H. P. Warren, T. Tarbell, B. De Pontieu, L. Teriaca, U. H. Schühle, S. Solanki, L. K. Harra, S. Matthews, A. Fludra, F. Auchère, V. Andretta, G. Naletto, A. Zhukov, Proc. SPIE 11118, UV, X-Ray, and Gamma-Ray Space Instrumentation for Astronomy XXI, 1111807 (2019), doi: 10.1117/12.2528240

- The Solar Orbiter Metis and EUI Intensified CMOS-APS detectors: concept, main characteristics and performance, U. Schühle, L. Teriaca, R. Aznar Cuadrado, K. Heerlein, M. Uslenghi, S. Werner, Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2018: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray, Editor(s): J.-W. A. den Herder, S. Nikzad, K. Nakazawa, Proc. SPIE 1069934, 2018, doi: 10.1117/12.2313800

- Broad Band EUV/FUV Mirror Coatings for a Solar Spectrograph Mission, L. Teriaca, T. Feigl, U. Schühle, Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2018: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray, Editor(s): J.-W. A. den Herder, S. Nikzad, K. Nakazawa, Proc. SPIE  106992Y, 2018, doi: 10.1117/12.2313784

- In-flight performance of the solar UV radiometer LYRA/PROBA-2, Y. Stockman, A. BenMoussa, I. Dammasch, J.-M. Defise, M. Dominique, J.-P. Halain, J.-F. Hochedez, S. Koller, W. Schmutz, U. Schühle, Proc. of SPIE, 10565, 105650A-2, 2017, DOI: 10.1117/12.2309149

- Intensified solid state sensor cameras, U. Schühle, in Observing Photons in Space — A Guide to Experimental Space Astronomy (edited by M. C. E. Huber, A. Pauluhn, J. L. Culhane, J. G. Timothy, K. Wilhelm, and A. Zehnder), vol. 9 of ISSI Scientific Report Series, Springer, Heidelberg, 2 ed., 2013, ISBN 978-1-4614-7803-4.