Michael Kramer (astronomer)

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Michael Kramer (born December 31, 1967 in Cologne ) is a German radio astronomer and astrophysicist .

Kramer studied physics at the University of Cologne and the University of Bonn , where he received his doctorate in 1995. For his dissertation he conducted research with Richard Wielebinski . As a post-doctoral student he was at the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy (MPIfR) and, in 1998/99, an Otto Hahn scholarship holder at the University of California, Berkeley . From 1999 he was a lecturer , from 2005 reader and from 2006 professor of astrophysics at the University of Manchester . There he headed the Pulsar group at the Jodrell Bank Observatory from 2005 to 2009 and was its deputy director from 2007 to 2009. Since 2009 he has been director at the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy.

At the MPI he heads the research group Fundamental Physics of Radio Astronomy . In addition to studying pulsars as tests of general relativity and alternative theories of gravity , this also pursues the study of cosmic magnetic fields via the emitted radio radiation. His group is also involved in innovative radio telescope projects such as the LOFAR project and the Square Kilometer Array .

In 2009 he received the Marcel Grossmann Award for his fundamental contributions to the astrophysics of pulsars, specifically for the first confirmation of the existence of spin-orbit precession in binary star pulsars and in 2013 the Herschel Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society . He has been a member of the Academia Europaea since 2016 .

literature

  • Pulsars as a laboratory (article about Kramer), in: Annual report of the Max Planck Society, Munich 2009, supplement "Personalalien", page 9 online, PDF

Web links

Commons : Michael Kramer  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Radioastronomical Fundamental Physics (homepage of the research department of Prof. Kramer). MPI for Astronomy Bonn;
  2. ↑ his fundamental contributions to pulsar astrophysics, and notably for having first confirmed the existence of spin-orbit precession in binary pulsars , official laudation
  3. ↑ Honor for astrophysicists from Bonn. In: General-Anzeiger Bonn. January 12, 2013, accessed October 19, 2018 .
  4. ^ Herschel Medal for Michael Kramer. MPG, January 11, 2013, accessed on October 19, 2018 (MPI press release with current information on biography).
personal data
SURNAME Kramer, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German astronomer
DATE OF BIRTH December 31, 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne