Dr. Hans Zinnecker, Stellvertretender Direktor des wissenschaftlichen SOFIA Zentrums in Kalifornien
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Anschrift	Universität Stuttgart Institut für Raumfahrtsyteme Pfaffenwaldring 29 D-70569 Stuttgart
Scientific Expertise & Interests
Galactic and Extragalactic Star Formation Massive Stars, Triggered Star Formation The origin of stellar masses and the IMF Protostars, Circumstellar Disks and Jets Young Binary Stars, Young Star Clusters Direct Imaging Search for Exo-Planets Science with Extremely Large Telescopes Infrared Astronomy, ground-based and space
Publication Record
122 papers in refereed journals 118 papers in conference Proc. 53 papers in IAU Symp./Coll. 96 talks since 2002 Hirsch citation index =40
Post Graduate Work
1995 – now	Astrophysikalisches Institut Potsdam (AIP) • Scientific Staff • Sabbatical: ESO/Santiago (April – May 2003)
1990 – 1995	Universität Würzburg, Institut für Astronomie & Astrophysik • German Science Foundation (DFG) Fellow – 1991 visiting scientist at ESO, La Silla /Chile (3 Months) – 1994 Inst. for Theor. Astrophysics, Heidelberg (3 Months)
1990	University of Hawaii, Institute for Astronomy, Honolulu • Guest Scientist and Lecturer (1 Semester)
1987 – 1989	MPI für Extraterrestrische Physik, Garching • Scientific Staff, in the Infrared and X-ray Astronomy Groups
1983 – 1987	Royal Observatory, Edinburgh • Post Doctoral Fellow (Royal Society and DFG) • Scientific Staff
1981 – 1983	MPI für Extraterrestrische Physik, Garching • Scientific Staff
Education
1977 – 1981	MPI für Extraterrestrische Physik, Garching • Ph.D. in Astrophysics (“summa cum laude”) Dissertation Topic: “The Stellar Initial Mass Function” Ph.D. Supervisor: Prof. Dr. K. Pinkau, Dr. S. Drapatz
1971 – 1977	Technische Universität München, Department of Physics • Diploma in Theoretical Physics (“summa cum laude”) Thesis Topic: “Quantization of a Nonlinear Scalar Field Equation” Diploma Supervisor: Priv.Doz. Dr. L. Castell
1969 – 1971	Military Service
1960 – 1969	Gymnasium in Dinkelsbühl / Franconia, Abitur
Committee Work
2007 –	Member of the ESA Astronomy Working Group
2004 –	OPTICON and ESO-ELT Science Working Group
2003, 2007	Referee in the HST Time Allocation Committee
1998 – 2000	Advisor of the ESO Observing Programme Committee
1998	Advisory Committee on the Future of Calar Alto
1997 – 2000	President of IAU Commission 26 “Double & Multiple Stars”
1994 – 1997	Vice President of IAU Commission 26
1996	Member of the VLT/CONICA Instrument Science Team
1992	German Representative in the ESO Users Committee
Invited Lecture Courses
2003 / 2008	European Southern Observatory, Santiago de Chile • senior visiting scientist, lectures on “Massive Star Formation”
2005	University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand • lecture course “Star Formation and Early Stellar Evolution”
1999	Swiss Society of Astronomy and Astrophysics • 29th Saas-Fee Course Star Formation in Galaxies Lecture series on “Observations of Young Stellar Objects”
1998 / 1999	Technische Universität Berlin und Freie Universität Berlin • “Theory and Observations of Young Stars”
1998	University of Sao Paulo /Brasil • 5 Lectures on “Star Formation”
Scientific Conference Organization
Sept 2007	The Astrophysical Science Cases at Dome C in Antarctica (2nd ARENA EC network conference) held in Potsdam • Chair SOC and Chief Editor
May 2004	IMF@50: The Initial Mass Function – 50 years after (in honor of Ed Salpeter) • Co-chair SOC, Co-editor (with F. Palla & E. Corbelli)
Sept 2003	DFG Discussion Meeting “Formation and Evolution of Planetary Systems: the Solar System and Extrasolar Systems” • Science and Local Organisor at AIP Potsdam
April 2000	IAU Symposium 200 “The Formation of Binary Stars” • Co-chair SOC, Co-editor (with R.B. Mathieu) • Co-editor of the poster Proc. IAU Symp. 200
Sept. 1995	X-ray Centennial Conference “Röntgenstrahlung from the Universe”, University of Würzburg • Local Co-organiser
Sept. 1991	Vulcano Workshop (Mem. S.A. It. Vol. 62, No. 4) “Young Star Clusters and Early Stellar Evolution” • Co-editor (with F. Palla & P. Persi) • Local Co-organiser
International Prize Committees
Balzan Prize (2006) Crafoord Prize (2007) Tycho Brahe Prize (2008, EAS)
Observing Experience
Ground-Based Telescopes: Calar Alto 3.5m, ESO 3.6m, UKIRT 3.8m, AAT 3.9m, Kitt Peak 4m, SAO 6m, Baade 6.5m, ESO-VLT&VLTI, Keck, IRAM, ATCA Satellite Platforms: HST/NICMOS, ISO, ROSAT, XMM, CHANDRA, SPITZER
Supervision Of Phd Students
Morten Andersen Wolfgang Brandner Dijana Dominis Nicolas Lodieu Dieter Nürnberger Thomas Preibisch Jan Ruppert Thomas Stanke
Selected Papers And Reviews
Predicted protostellar mass spectrum in the Orion near-infrared cluster (Zinnecker 1982) A statistical theory of the log-normal Initial Mass Function (Zinnecker 1984) Visual binaries among pre-Main Sequence stars (Reipurth & Zinnecker 1993) The initial stellar population (Zinnecker, McCaughrean, &Wilking 1993) X-ray emission from Herbig Ae/Be stars: A ROSAT survey (Zinnecker & Preibisch 1994) A symmetrically pulsed H2 jet in Orion (Zinnecker, McCaughrean, & Rayner 1998) On the formation of massive stars (Bonnell, Bate, & Zinnecker 1998) The history of low-mass star formation in the Upper Scorpius OB association (Preibisch & Zinnecker 1999, see also the review in IAU-S237 in 2007) A search for young solar system analogues with the VLT (Zinnecker et al. 1999) A dynamical mass constraint for pre-Main Sequence evol. tracks (Steffen et al. 2001) The infrared luminosity function in the 30 Doradus cluster (Zinnecker et al. 2002) Formation of massive binaries (Zinnecker 2003) Chances for earth-like planets and life around metal-poor stars (Zinnecker 2004) The formation of free-floating brown dwarves and planetary-mass objects by photo-erosion of prestellar cores (Whitworth & Zinnecker 2004) The secrets of the nearest starburst cluster: the present-day mass function of NGC 3603 (Stolte et al. 2005) The origin of massive O-type field stars: runaway stars? (de Wit et al. 2005) The birth of high-mass stars: accretion and/or mergers? (Bally & Zinnecker 2005) Search for giant extrasolar planets around white dwarfs: direct imaging with NICMOS/HST and NACO/VLT (Zinnecker et al. 2006) Reviews at Protostars and Planets V (Hawaii): The low-mass populations in OB-associations (Briceno et al. 2007) The formation of brown dwarfs (Whitworth et al. 2007) The origin of the Initial Mass Function (Bonnell, Larson, & Zinnecker 2007) Toward Understanding Massive Star Formation (Zinnecker & Yorke 2007, Ann.Rev.A&A)
Awards
Jubilee Award of the University of Würzburg (1993) Erskine Fellowship, UC Christchurch, New Zealand (2005)