German ARC staff

The people currently involved in the German node of the ALMA Regional Centre are listed below. The email addresses can be found here.

Bonn

Frank Bertoldi
	ARC node representative Professor at the Argelander Institute for Astronomy at the University of Bonn Phone: +49 (0)228 - 73 - 6789 Fax: +49 (0)228 - 73 - 1775 Research Interests: 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 minor interests cover molecular cloud structure, star formation, Kuiper belt objects, comets, PDRs, and gamma-ray bursts.
Stefanie Mühle
	ARC node manager mmVLBI, user support, training, outreach Phone: +49 (0)228 - 73 - 3662 Fax: +49 (0)228 - 73 - 1775 Research Interests: properties of the molecular gas in extreme environments like galaxy mergers, starburst galaxies, and near AGN, and in more "normal" nearby galaxies (observations, non-LTE modelling); star formation and feedback; the ISM in the Galactic center; Galactic masers; magnetic fields in nearby galaxies
Reinhold Schaaf
	Staff IT support, user support Phone: +49 (0)228 - 73 - 3668 Fax: +49 (0)228 - 73 - 1775 Research Interests: Software development for radio astronomy: Radiative transfer (ARTIST), bolometer analysis software (BoA), control software for single dish telescopes (APECS, NANTEN2).
Toma Badescu
	PhD student user support Phone: +49 (0)228 - 73 - 5657 Fax: +49 (0)228 - 73 - 1775 Research interests: I am working on observing extragalactic (mm) radio recombination lines in (U)LIRGS and trying to determine if they are a reliable marker for star-formation.
Christos Karoumpis
	PhD student CASA, ALMA Phone: +49 (0)228 - 73 - 3670 Fax: +49 (0)228 - 73 - 1775 Research interests: formation and evolution of high-redshift galaxies, interstellar and intergalactic medium during the Epoch of Reionization, line-intensity mapping

Cologne

Peter Schilke
	ARC node affiliate Professor for experimental astrophysics at the I. Physikalische Institut in Cologne Phone: +49 (0)221 - 470 - 1935 Fax: +49 (0)221 - 470 - 5162 Research interests: formation of massive stars, astrochemistry and formation of molecular clouds, articularly on the modeling of observing data. I am Project leader of Projects A6 and C3 in the new SFB 956, co-I of Herschel/HIFI and have been involved there in the GT KPs HEXOS and CHESS. From 1997 to 2010 I have been member of various ALMA committees, among the Science Software Requirements, ESAC and ASAC and various review committees.
Thomas Möller
	Postdoc spectral line identification Phone: +49 (0)221 - 470 - 3490 Fax: +49 (0)221 - 470 - 5162 Research interests: modeling of observing data; development of a program (MAGIX) which provides a framework to easily interface existing codes to an iterating engine that allows automatic minimizations to constrain model parameters and provide error estimates
Holger Mueller
	Postdoc CDMS Phone: +49 (0)221 - 470 - 4528 Fax: +49 (0)221 - 470 - 5162 Research interests: astrochemistry, star-formation, molecules in space, rotational, rovibrational, interactions, hyperfine structure, data reliability (in the lab, in astro observations, in databases)