From Thursday 16th to Saturday 18th of August 2018, a teacher training for secondary level teachers will be offered shortly before the General Assembly of the International Astronomical Union. During this teacher training, four topics will be introduced in teaser…
This August, Vienna will welcome more than 3000 astronomers from over 88 countries at the general assembly of the International Astronomical Union. The conference includes also several events for the local community, free and open to the public. I am…
Mid- and far-infrared observations of the environment around embedded protostars reveal a plethora of high excitation molecular and atomic emission lines. In this paper recently accepted for publication in Astronomy & Astrophysics we present spectro-imaging observations of the HH211 system…
Star formation in the era of Herschel and ALMA: paving the way to JWST The birth of Sun-like stars is a complex process where several physical processes are involved but whose respective roles are not yet clear. On the one…
I am excited to give an invited talk on the Antikythera mechanism at the Vienna Amateur Astronomers club (Wiener Arbeitsgemeinschaft for Astronomie). The topic of the presentation combines in a unique way astronomy with history and archeology, which are some of…
Ancient civilization is mainly related to and studied through arts and literature; technology is however an equally important aspect reflected in the degree of abstraction and complexity of antique devices. In this talk I will present a short overview of…
Our open access review on the evolution and chemistry of protoplanetary disks is online at the site of Springer Link. “The Gas Disk: Evolution and Chemistry” has been the result of collective effort with a number of collaborators from the Department of Astrophysics…
I am proud to co-organize with excellent colleagues for the second consecutive year a symposium on astrophysical jets and outflows within the framework of the European Week of Astronomy and Space Science (EWASS), held this year in Prague, Czech Republic…
A new lecture focusing in the formation and role of solids in diverse astrophysical environments will be available in the fall of 2016. The wide spectrum of topics that will be covered, lectures will be given by specialists in different…
The star-formation feedback onto the parent cloud is conventionally examined through the study of molecular outflows. Little is however known on the effect that atomic ejecta, tracing fast shocks, can have on the global cloud properties. In this study we employ Herschel/PACS…