Curriculum Vitae



Scientific & Academic Carreer


since June 2010 Responsible for gender issues of SPL 28 at the Faculty for Earth Sciences, Geography and Astronomy of the University of Vienna
since Feb. 2010 Recipient of an APART fellowship of the Austrian Academy of Sciences at the Institute of Astronomy of the University Vienna
since Dec. 2009 Member of the CoRoT Science Consortium
since March 2009 Member of the BRITE-Constellation International Advisory Science Team (BIAST)
2007-2010 "Hertha Firnberg Project" from the Austrian Science Funds (FWF)
May 2007 Voted to the "Top 30 Young Austrian Scientists" by the science magazine "Heureka" (Falter)
since May 2007 Co-Investigator of the CoRoT satellite mission
since Oct. 2004 Coordinator & Organiser of the CoRoT "PMS Thematic Team"
July 2004 Tutor during the Space Summer School Alpbach, Tyrol
since 2002 Member of the "Österreichische Gesellschaft für Astronomie und Astrophysik (ÖGAA)"
2000 Research at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, in preparation of the satellite project MOST with Prof. Jaymie Matthews
2000 - 2001 PI of the ASTROVIRTEL project "Asteroseismology with the Hubble Space Telescope Fine Guidance Sensors" with the ST-ECF in Garching
1999 Research at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, in preparation of the satellite project MOST with Prof. Jaymie Matthews
1999-2000 PI of the project "Microvariability with the Hubble Space Telescope Fine Guidance Sensors" sponsored by the "Jubiläumsfonds der Österreichischen Nationalbank".
July 1996 Summer student at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FERMILAB) with Prof. Alberto Santoro in Batavia, Illinois, USA


Teaching

2011 Laboratory Course "Astronomisches Anfängerpraktikum" &
Seminar "Asteroseismology in the age of space science" &
Lecture & Exercises "UniBRITE: der Universitäts-Weltraumsatellit"
2010 Seminar "New results in Asteroseismology" &
Lecture "Spectroscopic and Photometric Methods in Asteroseismology"
2009 Lecture "Satellite Astronomy"
2008 Lecture "Star clusters as galactic modules" &
Seminar "The exciting lives of stars towards the main sequence"
2000 - 2005 Tutor for the lectures "Astronomical Instrumentation I & II"
since 2000 Co-Supervision of students' bachelor and diploma theses


Education

Nov. 2005 Defense of the PhD thesis "Pulsating Pre-Main Sequence Stars In Young Open Clusters" at the University of Vienna
July 2003 Participation as student in the Space Summer School Alpbach, Tyrol, Austria
March 1999 Graduation with the Master of Natural Sciences at the University of Vienna
Dec. 1998 Scholarship of the University of Vienna
Dec. 1996 Begin of masters' thesis "Hubble Deep Field Guide Star Photometry" in the group of Prof. Werner W. Weiss
June 1992 Graduation from high school ("Matura")


Conferences

since 1997 Participation in more than 35 international conferences and workshopds, e.g. the regular MOST and BRITE-Constellation Science Team Meetings, CoRoT Workshops and Conferences, the regular conferences on pulsation and asteroseismology etc.


Observing Runs

March 2008 Dedicated Short Run (SRa01) with the CoRoT satellite
since 2003 Several observing runs using the MOST satellite
since 1999 More than 25 observing runs and campaigns at international observatories (e.g. in Chile, South Africa, Spain etc.) to obtain photometric and spectroscopic data from ground