Andreas Müller (astronomer)

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Andreas Müller (born August 29, 1973 in Jugenheim , today Seeheim-Jugenheim , Hessen ) is a German astrophysicist , science journalist and non-fiction author .

Life

After graduating from high school in 1993, Müller did his community service from 1994 to 1995 and then studied physics at the Technical University of Darmstadt (TUD) from 1995 to 2000 . He received his doctorate in astronomy from the State Observatory in Heidelberg in 2004 with a dissertation on the astrophysics of black holes .

Müller is married and has two sons.

Act

Müller's main research interests are black holes, the theory of relativity , active galaxy nuclei and cosmology . From 2005 to 2007 Müller did research as a postdoc at the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics (MPE) in Garching in the group for X-ray astronomy led by Günther Hasinger . Between 2007 and 2018, as a science manager , he helped set up the Universe Cluster of Excellence, which was jointly founded by the Technical University of Munich and the Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich , and was instrumental in its continuation as the Origins Cluster of Excellence .

From 2016 to 2018 he was on the editorial board of the magazine Astronomie + Raumfahrt . From 2016 to 2018 he wrote the columns “Müller's Universum” and “Fact or Fiction” for the magazine Abenteuer Astronomie .

Since April 2019 he has been editor- in- chief of the magazine Sterne und Weltraum at the Spektrum der Wissenschaft Verlagsgesellschaft in Heidelberg .

Andreas Müller has also been represented on the YouTube channel “Big Bang, Universe and Life” by Josef M. Gaßner and Harald Lesch since 2017 . For many years, Müller has been committed to popularizing astronomy, he is the author of numerous scientific articles and non-fiction books and a frequent interviewee . He has also been organizing teacher training courses in astronomy and physics for many years and cooperates with schools , where he gave more than half of his more than 500 lectures.

Prices

2012: Johannes Kepler Prize from the German Association for the Promotion of Mathematics and Science Education V. (MNU)

Publications (selection)

  • Müller, Andreas: Black Hole Astrophysics - Magnetohydrodynamics on the Kerr Geometry. Univ. Diss., Heidelberg University, 2004. ( available online at Spektrum.de (PDF; 9.9 MB))
  • Müller, Andreas: Space and Time - From Space to Extra Dimensions - From Hourglass to Spin Foam. Heidelberg: Spektrum Akademischer Verlag, 2012. ( ISBN 978-3827428585 )
  • Müller, Andreas: Time travel and time machines - this morning I was still yesterday. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Spectrum, 2015. ( ISBN 978-3662471098 )
  • Müller, Andreas u. Nöldner, Pascal: Mysterious space - dark expanses, strange planets and unsolved puzzles. Munich: Circon, 2017. ( ISBN 978-3817417315 )
  • Müller, Andreas: 10 things you want to know about gravitational waves - about the weakest signals and the strongest events. Heidelberg: Springer, 2017. ( ISBN 978-3662544082 )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Full text of the dissertation (PDF). In: Spektrum.de. December 22, 2004, accessed January 23, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Editorial board at Astronomie + Raumfahrt. In: friedrich-verlag.de. 2018, accessed January 23, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Editor-in-chief of Stars and Space. In: Spektrum.de. 2019, accessed May 4, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Gravitational waves (1/3) Andreas Müller. In: youtube.com. February 17, 2017, accessed January 23, 2019 .
  5. ^ Augsburger Allgemeine Zeitung on time travel. In: augsburger-allgemeine.de. February 11, 2016, accessed January 23, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Focus online on time travel. In: focus.de. February 10, 2016, accessed January 23, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Süddeutsche Zeitung on time travel. In: sueddeutsche.de. February 8, 2016, accessed January 23, 2019 .
  8. ↑ DER SPIEGEL on time machines. In: spiegel.de. January 2, 2016, accessed January 23, 2019 .
  9. ^ Johannes Kepler Prize 2012 from MNU. In: cornelsen.de. April 2, 2012, accessed January 23, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Müller, Andreas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German astrophysicist, astronomer and non-fiction author
DATE OF BIRTH 29th August 1973
PLACE OF BIRTH Youth home , Hesse