Curriculum Vitae - Julian Merten

Personal Data

Name: Julian Manuel Merten
Academic title: Dr. rer. nat. (Ph.D.)
Date of birth: August 8th 1982
Place of birth: Hammelburg, Germany
Citizenship: German
Residence: Pasadena, CA, USA

Work adress

Jet Propulsion Laboratory / California Institute of Technology
4800 Oak Grove Drive
Pasadena, CA 91109
Mail stop 169-237
E-mail: jmerten@caltech.edu

Institute of Theoretical Astrophysics
University of Heidelberg
Albert-Ueberle-Straße 2
69120 Heidelberg
E-Mail: jmerten@uni-heidelberg.de
WWW: http://www.ita.uni-heidelberg.de/~jmerten

Education

Jul. 2010	Accomplished Ph.D. in physics
Mar. 2008	Accomplished "Diplom" in physics
2004-2008	Advanced studies in physics at the University of Heidelberg
Apr. 2004	Accomplished "Vordiplom" in physics
2002-2004	Basic studies of physics at the University of Heidelberg
Jun. 2002	Accomplished "Allgemeine Hochschulreife"
1993-2002	Gymnasium in Hammelburg

Research

since Nov. 2011	Postdoc at JPL/Caltech
Aug. 2010 - Oct. 2011	Postdoc at ITA Heidelberg
Jun. 2010	Full 3 month grant for a HPC-Europa2 guest proposal at CINECA Italy
Jun. 2009 - Jul. 2010	Grant at INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Bologna
Jun. 2009 - Jun. 2010	Student representative of the Centre of Astronomy in Heidelberg (ZAH)
Nov. 2008 - Jun. 2010	Elected student representative of the 4th IMPRS generation
Jul. 2008 - Jun. 2010	Member of the International Max Planck Research School (IMPRS)
Apr. 2008 - Jun. 2010	Member of the Heidelberg Graduate School of Fundamental Physics (HGSFP)
Mar. 2008 - Jun. 2010	Ph.D student in physics at ITA Heidelberg under supervision of Prof. Dr. Matthias Bartelmann
Jan. 2007 - Jan. 2008	"Diplomarbeit" at ITA Heidelberg under supervision of Prof. Dr. Matthias Bartelmann

Theses

PhD

Title: An advanced method to recover the mass distribution of galaxy clusters
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Matthias Bartelmann
Second corrector: Prof. Dr. Hans-Walter Rix
Grade: magna cum laude (with high honors)
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Diploma

Title: Combining weak and strong gravitational lensing for galaxy-cluster mass reconstructions
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Matthias Bartelmann
Second corrector: Prof. Dr. Joachim Wambsganß
Grade: Very good (1.0)
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Teaching

july 2009	Tutor for the DPG teacher education on Cosmology lecturers: Prof. Dr. Matthias Bartelmann and Prof. Dr. Karl-Heinz Lotze
summer term 2008	Tutor for theo. physics II for bachelor students (Analytical Mechanics and Thermodynamics) lecturer: Prof. Dr. Matthias Bartelmann
winter term 2007/08	Tutor for theo. physics III (Quantum Mechanics) lecturer: Prof. Dr. Michael G. Schmidt
summer term 2007	Tutor for theo. physics II (Electrodynamics) lecturer: PD Georg Wolschin
winter term 2006/07	Tutor for theo. physics I (Classical Mechanics) lecturer: PD Jan Pawlowski

Conferences, workshops and schools

fall 2011	Annual CLASH fall meeting , Heidelberg, Germany
fall 2011	The dark Universe, Internatioal conference, Heidelberg, Germany
summer 2011	Future surveys of galaxy glusters, Sesto, Italy
summer 2011	Bologna informal workshop on dark matter, Bologna, Italy
fall 2010	DUEL final meeting, Sorrento, Italy
fall 2010	Future directions of cosmological simulations, workshop, Edinburgh, Schottland
fall 2010	CLASH kick-off meeting, Granada, Spain
summer 2010	10 years of cosmic shear, International conference, Edinburgh, Scotland
winter 2010	Winter meeting of the DUEL network, Castle Ringberg near Tegernsee, Germany
winter 2009	3rd TRR 33 Winter School, Passo del Tonale, Italy
winter 2009	Winter meeting of the DUEL network, IWH Heidelberg
fall 2009	22nd Heidelberg Graduate Days
summer 2009	Cosmology and Lensing Summer School of the DUEL network, IAP, Paris
summer 2009	4th IMPRS Summer School, Statistical Inferences from Astrophysical Data, Heidelberg
summer 2009	School of Astrophysics "Francesco Lucchin", Bertinoro, Italy
winter 2008	2nd HGSFP Winter School, Obergurgl, Austria
winter 2008	2nd TRR 33 Winter School, Passo del Tonale, Italy
fall 2008	Leopoldina conference on dark energy, LMU Munich
fall 2008	21st Heidelberg Graduate Days
summer 2008	IMPRS Summer School, The Art and Craft of Astronomical Instrumentation, Heidelberg
summer 2008	Workshop about weighing galaxy clusters, MPE Garching
spring 2008	20th Heidelberg Graduate Days
spring 2008	First Heidelberg Astronomers Convention
winter 2007	Workshop about dark matter density profiles, IAP Paris
fall 2007	19th Heidelberg Graduate Days
spring 2007	18th Heidelberg Graduate Days

Meetings Organised

fall 2011

Annual CLASH fall meeting , Heidelberg, Germany (50 participants, local and scientific organisation)

Language and IT skills

German (native), English (fluent), Frensh (basic knowledge), Italian (basic knowledge)
programing: C, C++, Python, HTML, Java, MatLab, Mathematica, R
experienced with Unix, Linux, Windows and Mac
programming of parallel computer clusters using MPI, CUDA and OpenCL