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Curriculum Vitae

Sunset at the beach in Katwijk, Holland

since 2017 – ELT/METIS calibration scientist and member of the faculty at Sterrewacht Leiden, Leiden University, The Netherlands

2015-2016 – Post-doctoral researcher at the MPE with the self-funded DFG project “Towards a comprehensive understanding of the interstellar medium in the extreme environment of Active Galactic Nuclei”

2012-2015 – Post-doctoral researcher at Max-Planck-Institut für extraterrestrische Physik (MPE),  Garching, and member of the GRAVITY collaboration

2011 – Ph.D. in astronomy, Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie, Heidelberg, and Universität Heidelberg, Germany

Marienberg Fortress towering over the river main in Würzburg

2007 – Diplom Physik, Universität Würzburg, Germany

2005 – Master of Physics in Advanced Physics, Heriot-Watt-University, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK

2004 – Vordiplom Physik, Universität Würzburg, Germany

2001 – Abitur (high school diploma), Gymnasium Penzberg, Germany

Innsbruck’s “Nordkette” (northern chain) as seen from the Hafelekarspitze (2334 m above sealevel), close to my birthplace Rum.

1982 – born in Rum (Tirol, Austria)

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