Prof. Dr. Frank Bertoldi

Email: bertoldi [at] astro. uni-bonn. de Phone: +49 (0)228 - 73 - 6789 Fax: +49 (0)228 - 73 - 1775 Home: +49 (0)228 - 9659598 Smail: Argelander Institut für Astronomie Universität Bonn Auf dem Hügel 71, Room 1.22 53121 Bonn Home: Zülpicher Str. 17 53115 Bonn

Profile

Since 2004 Professor and head of the radioastronomy group at the Argelander Institute for Astronomy at the University of Bonn. Institute director since 2009. PhD in Physics from U.C. Berkeley in 1989. My currrent research focuses on the formation of stars, galaxies, and massive black holes in the early Universe, and on a project to constrain structure formation and cosmological parameters (primordial density spectrum, dark energy) by means of a Sunyaev-Zel'dovich galaxy cluster survey. My lesser insterest cover molecular cloud structure, star formation, Kuiper belt objects, comets, PDRs, shocks, and gamma-ray bursts.

Group

Our submillimeter to radio astronomy group loosely divides into Vlemmings' Emmy Noether group on magnetic fields (Surcis, Ramstedt, Maercker, Torres, de Lima, Perez), the ARTIST group working on radiative transfer modeling tools and low mass star formation (Kuiper, Schaaf), the Sunyaev-Zeldovich Effect research group (Basu, Pacaud, Nord, Klein, Nagarayan, Burkutean), and the starburst group (Knudsen, Papadopoulos, Albrecht, Smolcic). Doctoral student Anderl works on shock models and postdoc Franco on massive star formation. We host the German node of the European ALMA regional center (ARC), provide the bolometer data analysis software package BoA, and we are involved in the COSMOS, NANTEN2, CCAT, and EUCLID projects.

Should you be interested in a Batchelor, Masters, Diplom, or PhD thesis project, please contact me - there are always numerous opportunities!