Name

Michael Fritz Sterzik

Date of Birth

28.04.1963

Place of Birth

Augsburg/Bavaria

Nationality

German

Address

Bartolome de las Casas 2273, Vitacura, Santiago de Chile

Office

European Southern Observatory

Phone/Fax:

++56 2 463 3105/3001

Email

msterzik@eso.org

Major Interest

star and planetary system formation; physical processes in accretion disks; bioastronomy

Theory/Methodology

numerical simulations: smoothed particle hydrodynamics, gravitational N-body dynamics

Observations/Interpretations

imaging and spectroscopy in wavelength ranges: cm (VLA), mm (IRAM 30m, SEST), MIR/NIR, optical (Calar Alto, ESO, WIYN) and X-ray (ROSAT, SAX, XMM)

Teaching

advisor of several Diploma- and PhD thesis projects; supervision of scientific work at large telescope facilities;  general public and press relations at ESO telescopes

 since 11/07 

Deputy Director of the La Silla Paranal Observatory

 2005 – 2007

Head of the Science Operations Department in LaSilla

 2003 – 2005

Full astronomer at the Paranal Observatory

   2/01  – 12/02

Instrument scientist for the mid-infrared instrument TIMMI2 at LaSilla/

   5/98  –  2/01

staff astronomer and team leader at the ESO 3.6m telescope in LaSilla/Chile 

major responsabilities: human resource management, budgethandling (300kDM), quality control, scienitific project management

   1/96   –  4/98

researcher, funded by the DFG program "star formation", University of Tuebingen

     in 95

scientific sectretary at the Max-Planck Institut f. extraterrestrische Physik, MPE, Garching 

responsabilities: public relations, editor of the MPE annual report 1994

   1/93  – 12/95

researcher, MPE

 11/88  –   9/89

research assistant, MPE: development  of semiconductor detectors

 2/93

Dissertation in theoretical astrophysics, University of Tuebingen 

"Strukturierungsprozesse in protoplanetaren Akkretionsscheiben" (magna cum laude)

 9/88

Diploma in physics, Ludwig-Maximilians University Muenchen (sehr gut)

 6/82

Allgemeine Hochschulreife, Gymnasium Neusaess (1.4)

 8/01

european patent 0759150 granted (together with Dipl.Ing. W. Klose)  

"Method and apparatus for measuring surface contours"