Dr. Helmut Wiesemeyer
Research Department Millimeter- and Submillimeter Astronomy
Submillimeter Technology
Submillimeter Technology
Main Focus
- Chemistry of the primordial universe, and of interstellar and circumstellar environments
- Planetary atmospheres and cometary comae
- Far-infrared spectroscopy of light hydrides and their isotopic substitutions
- Radiative transfer modeling and excitation studies of atomic fine-structure lines
- Polarimetry of cosmic dust and spectral line emission in star-forming regions and late stages of stellar evolution
Curriculum Vitae
- since 2010 Staff astronomer and SOFIA scientist at Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie
- 2006 - 2010 Visiting scientist at Instituto de Radioastronomía Milimétrica, Granada (Spain)
- 2005 - 2010 Permant staff member at IRAM
- 1997 - 2005 Postdoc at Institut de Radioastronomie Millimétrique (IRAM), Grenoble (France)
- 1997 PhD in Astronomy, Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie & Universität Bonn
- 1994 Diplomphysiker, Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie & Universität Würzburg