Since I was about 14 I knew that I wanted to become an astronomer.
I never gazed at the sky at night, but was always fascinated
by the big darkness surrounding us, or as Alf put it:
"we are just a short moment during eternity"
(cited from the top of my head).
After finishing school and doing my military services, I started
to study physics at the Universität zu Köln in 1987,
where I left with a Vordiplom (similar maybe to a BSc) in 1989.
I went 30 miles south to the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms Universität
in Bonn, where I received my Diplom (similar to the MSc) in early 1993.
I wrote my diploma thesis at the
Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie
in Bonn in 1992, where I also finished my PhD thesis
in spring 1996.
At the moment I am a MPG stipend at the same institute, still
working in the field of speckle techniques.
Over the years I worked on different techniques and astronomical objects.
During my diploma thesis I was investigating Optical Long Baseline
Interferometry with Large Telescopes, while during my PhD thesis
I was working on a spectrograph used for Objective Prism Speckle
Spectroscopy.
Objects ranged from two Gravitational Lenses over Eta Carinae
(imaging and speckle spectroscopy), NX Puppis and now I am mostly
involved in astrometric binaries.
If you want to know more about me, just read my
publications.
During the last four years, I was observing four times in Chile,
three times using ESO's 2.2m telescope and once with the 3.6m, all
located on Cerro La Silla.
The other site is the Russian
6m Bolshoi Telescope, which is located
in the Zelenchukskaya Region in the Caucasian mountains, in the
Karachai-Cherkessk republic.
Below I am providing some hopefully helpful links for astronomers:
AstroWeb: Astronomy/Astrophysics on the Internet
AAS Job Register
ADS Astronomy and Astrophysics Abstract
Daniel Fischer looks into the Universe...
) 1996 mschoell@eso.org
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