Curriculum vitae

Born 2. Sept. 1938 in Mannheim, Germany

1945-1958 Primary, secondary school in Muhlacker, Germany

1958-1961 Univ. Gottingen, Germany, student of physics

1961 Vordiplom degree in Physics, at Univ. Gottingen

1961-1962 Univ. Munich, Germany, student of physics

1962-1966 Yale University, New Haven CT, USA (Fulbright scholarship), graduate student

1964 MS degree in Physics, at Yale Univ.

1966 Ph.D. degree in Astronomy, at Yale Univ. Thesis title: The outer atmosphere of cool stars.

1966-1967 Scientific assistant, Univ. Tubingen, Germany, Chair for Theoretical Astrophysics

1967-1973 Scientific assistant, Univ. Wurzburg, Germany, Astronomical Institute

1974 Univ. lecturer, Univ. Wurzburg, Germany, Astronomical Institute

1979 apl. Prof., Univ. Wurzburg, Germany, Astronomical Institute

1980 Prof., Univ. Heidelberg, Germany, Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics

Guest lecturer:

1989 Univ. of Catania/Sicily, Feb. - Mar.

2006 Tsinghua Univ. Beijing/China, Apr. - May

2010 Univ. of Athens/Greece, Mar. - May

Main fields of work:

hydrodynamic wave propagation, radiative transfer, magnetohydrodynamics, structure of stellar chromospheres and coronae, astrobiology.

Main collaborators:

M. Cuntz, Physics Department, University of Texas at Arlington TX, USA

D. Fawzy Gad El Mawla, Ege Universitesi, Izmir, Turkey

R. Hammer, Kiepenheuer Institute for Solar Research, Freiburg, Germany

S. Hasan, Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Koramangala, Bangalore, India

W. Kalkofen, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge MA, USA

Z.E. Musielak, Physics Department, University of Texas at Arlington TX, USA

U. Narain, Astrophysics Research Group, Meerut College, Meerut, India

W. Rammacher, Kiepenheuer Institute for Solar Research, Freiburg, Germany

R. Rosner, Argonne National Laboratory and Univ. of Chicago, Chicago IL, USA