Matthias Steinmetz

Matthias Steinmetz (born March 8, 1966 in Saarbrücken ) is a German astrophysicist . He is Scientific Director of the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam and Professor at the University of Potsdam . He is the son of the classical philologist Peter Steinmetz .

Steinmetz is an expert in cosmology , galaxy formation and computational astrophysics . After his studies (1986-1991) in mathematics and physics in Saarbrücken and Munich , where he met with a dissertation on supernovae graduated Type Ia, he received his doctorate from 1991 to 1993 at the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics in Garching on "About the Formation and morphology of galaxies ”. For this work he received the Otto Hahn Medal of the Max Planck Society . He then conducted research at the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics and at the Department for Astronomy at the University of California at Berkeley . In 1996 he became Assistant Professor (since 2000 Associate Professor) at the Steward Observatory of the University of Arizona in Tucson. In 1998 he received a grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation ( Sloan Research Fellowship ).

Since 2002 he has been Professor of Astrophysics at the University of Potsdam and Director at the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP). There he heads the research area “Extragalactic Astrophysics and Cosmology”. Since 2004 he has been the Scientific Director of the AIP. In 2013 he was elected to the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences .

Memberships in scientific societies (selection)

• American Astronomical Society
• Astronomical Society (President 2014-17)
• German Physical Society
• International Astronomical Union

Web links

• Literature by and about Matthias Steinmetz in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature by and about Matthias Steinmetz in the bibliographic database WorldCat
• Internet presence (AIP)