MARKUS KISSLER-PATIG
European Southern Observatory
Karl-Schwarzschild-Str.2
85748 Garching, Germany
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Email:
mkissler@eso.org
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Profile
I am a senior Faculty member at the European Southern Observatory.
Currently, I am working on the European Extremely Large
Telescope Project as Project Scientist, and share my time between project work and astronomical research.
Science
My main scientific interests are the formation
and evolution of stars and star clusters, intermediate-mass black holes, the formation and evolution of galaxies, and
in particular the star/cluster formation in interacting galaxies.
More details can also be found by scanning through the
list of my recent papers. Or just contact me!
Recently, we acquired six GRAPE boards for dedicated N-body simulations. Details can be found on the grape pages.
They are currently used in our group to simulated the effect of intermediate-mass black holes on the central kienmatics of globular clusters.
I am involved on the Garching Campus in the
IMPRS Graduate School for Astrophysics,
and the Cluster of Excellence for Fundamental Physics
Origin and Structure of the Universe.
Between January 2007 and December 2009, I chaired the
ESO Astronomy Faculty (internal pages).
Teaching
I am teaching at the Ludwig-Maximilians University Munich.
Current lectures/classes
Wintersemester 2009/2010: Astrophysical advanced seminar I
I am currently accepting students.
Please feel to contact me for Master of PhD thesis subjects. You might want to have a look at the slightly outdated list of PhD Thesis topics
On the project side
Since February 2008, I am supporting as Project Scientist the detailed design phase (B) of the
European Extremely Large
Telescope Project, the next European giant telescope which promises incredible scientific breakthroughs.
On the instrumentation side
Between March 2000 and January 2008, I was active as Instrument Scientist in the
Optical Instrument department, the Adaptive Optics department, and last in
the NIR instrumentation department.
I have acted as Instrument Scientist for the following instruments:
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VIMOS, an optical multi-object and integral-field
spectrograph
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SINFONI, an adaptive optics
assisted near-infrared integral-field spectrograph
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HAWK-I, a near-infrared wide-field imager, and
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KMOS, a near-infrared multi-object spectrograph
based on deployable integral-field units.
I am still actively promoting integral-field spectroscopy, until recently through the
Euro3D Research Training Network.
Further Information
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