A view of Walchensee im Bayern from Fahrenbergkopf.
| 2000 | Doctorate in Astrophysics, University of Kyoto, Japan |
| 2000-2001 | JSPS fellow at the Subaru Telescope |
| 2001-2004 | Exchange Scientist to University of Hawaii in Hilo |
| 2004-2011 | Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Heidelberg |
| 2011-2014 | University Observatory Munich |
| 2015-2017 | Max Planck Institute for extraterrestrial Physics in Garching |
| 2018- | University Observatory Munich |
H2 and H3+ are the most fundamental molecule and molecular ion that allow quantitative tests of theories with minimum dependence on models. It is also the field where the infrared high resolution spectroscopy works best.
Interstellar ice is a vacuum cleaner of the universe. If you study the contents of the garbage bag, you could learn a lot about the life of the interstellar medium and why the presence of the ice is so important for us.
Observations of a circumstellar disk is complicated. They are hard to catch without the most expensive observational resources, such as high angular and spectral resolution in imaging and spectroscopy.
