Thomas Preibisch is Professor for Observational Astronomy at the University Observatory Muenchen since October 2008. He holds a doctoral degree from the Julius-Maximilians-University Würzburg (1995) where he also worked as a scientist in the DFG Schwerpunktprogram 'Physics of Star Formation' until 1998. From 1999 until 2008 he was a staff scientist in the Infrared Astronomy Group at the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy in Bonn.

Research interests:

• X-ray studies of young stars
• Stellar populations and star formation histories of young clusters and OB associations
• Stellar feedback effects and triggering of star formation
• Infrared interferometry of young stellar objects

 

Contact Address:

Prof. Dr. Thomas Preibisch
Universitätssternwarte der Ludwig-Maximilians Universität München
Scheinerstrasse 1
81679 München, Germany


E-Mail: preibisch @ usm.uni-muenchen.de
Web: http://www.usm.uni-muenchen.de/people/preibisch


Phone: +49-89-2180-6016
Fax: +49-89-2180-6003