PAVEL KROUPA
Life's stations
Research Interests:
Dynamical properties of stellar systems (IMF, multiplicity), evolution
of young multiple stellar systems in birth aggregates, star formation,
dynamical evolution of open and globular clusters, spatial and
kinematical distribution of stars, origin of field stars, structure
and mass of the Galaxy, galactic dynamics, formation and evolution of
dwarf satellite galaxies, dark matter content of galaxies.
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Background:
My family fled when Prague Spring failed in 1968, and I lived in each
of the following places (my parents remain in Perth): West Germany,
Kassel (1968-72)-South Africa, Pretoria (1972-77)-West Germany,
Goettingen (1977-83)-Australia, Perth (1983-88)-England, Cambridge
(1988-92)-Germany, Heidelberg (1992-2000), Kiel (2000-2004), Professor
in Bonn (since 2004).
I matriculated (Abitur) in 1983 at the Theodor-Heuss-Gymnasium, Goettingen.
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University Education and Employment:
- 1984: Commencement of my physics studies at The
University of
- Western Australia
, Perth.
- 1986/87: Summer-vacation
scholarship at Mt. Stromlo Observatory,
- Australian National
University, Canberra.
- 1987: Graduation with first class BSc honours
degree.
- Research assistant for five months
at The University of Western Australia.
- 1988: Award of Isaac Newton Studentship
by the University of Cambridge, England.
- Selected for membership by Trinity College.
- October: Commencement of my studies towards a PhD degree in
astrophysics at the
- Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge. Supervisor:
Dr. G. Gilmore.
- 1991: January-March: Visiting Research Fellow
for two months at the
- University of California, Santa Cruz.
- October: Award of Senior Rouse Ball Research Studentship
by Trinity College, Cambridge.
- 1992: May: Successful defence of my PhD thesis at
the University of Cambridge on
- The distribution of low-mass
stars in the Galactic disk.
- June: Commencement of a 5-year
research appointment at the Astronomisches Rechen-Institut,
Heidelberg, to work on galactic dynamics.
- 1997: June: Move to the Institut fuer Theoretische
Astrophysik,
- University of Heidelberg, to work on young
star clusters.
- October'97-February'98: Lecture course at the University of
Heidelberg on
- The Dynamical Properties of Stellar Systems.
- 1999: March-July: Smithsonian Institution Short-Term
Visitor at the
- Harvard-Smithsonian Centre for Astrophysics,
Cambridge, MA.
- Collaborator: Dr. C.J. Lada.
1999/2000: Nov.-Jan: Max-Planck-Institut fuer
Astronomie for collaboration with Andreas Burkert on binaries
in young clusters; thereafter at the Institut fuer Theoretische
Astrophysik.
2000: Feb.-June: Institut fuer Theoretische
Astrophysik, University of Heidelberg.
2000: July.-Sept: Max-Planck-Institut fuer
Astronomie for collaboration with Andreas Burkert on binaries
in young clusters.
2000: Nov.: Move to the Institut fuer Theoretische
Physik und Astrophysik,
University of Kiel.
2002: May: Habilitation on the topic Binary
Systems, Star Clusters and the
Galactic-Field Population.
2002: Nov.: Award of a 5-year Heisenberg Fellowship
by the DFG.
2003: May: Start of Heisenberg Fellowship.
2004: April: Appointment as professor at the Sternwarte der
Universitaet Bonn (since January 2006 a Division of the
Argelander-Institut fuer Astronomie, Universitaet Bonn).
2006: 23.02.-23.03.: ESO Senior Visitor, ESO,
Santiago, Chile
2007: March: Swinburne Visiting Professor at the
Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne.
2007: July-Sept.: Leverhulme Trust Visiting Professor
at the University of Sheffield, UK.
2008: July-Sept.: Leverhulme Trust Visiting Professor
at the University of Sheffield, UK.
2010: 26.07.-26.08.: ESO Visitor, ESO,
Headquarters, Garching
2012:(since): Fellow of the Astronomical Society of Australia
2012:(October) Elected as Managing Director of the
Argelander Institute for Astronomy, University of Bonn (for the usual term
of one academic year)
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