Michael Hilker Research

Since May 2001 I am a research assistant at the Sternwarte (Observatory) of the University of Bonn. Half of my time I spend in the Satellite Project DIVA, especially in the spectrophotometric aspects of this program. The other half of my time I follow the research lines as listed below and participate in the education and supervision of undergraduate and graduate students (see the available diplomathesis topics). Also I am a member in the Graduiertenkolleg about ``Galaxy Groups as Laboartories for Baryonic and Dark Matter''.
Before my position in Bonn I have been working as a post-doc in the department of astronomy and astrophysics of the Universidad Católica in Santiago de Chile. My position there was granted by FONDECYT (CONICYT) and my supervisor was Prof. Dr. L. Infante.
My PhD thesis In February 1998 I completed my PhD thesis at the Sternwarte Bonn in February 1998. The subject of my thesis is: ``The center of the Fornax cluster: dwarf galaxies, cD halo, and globular clusters'', supervised by Priv.Doz. Dr. Tom Richtler. If you are interested in my PhD thesis use this link. During my PhD research I was partly involved in the Graduiertenkolleg about ``The Magellanic System and Other Dwarf Galaxies''.