Science / Research Activities

15-minute video from a "Campus Talk"
 on the origin of the elements, Dec 2015 here








(see here for several articles on my science fields, written for a broader audience)

• Nuclear Astrophysics & Cosmic Nucleosynthesis
• specifically: Gamma-Ray Lines (²⁶Al , ⁶⁰Fe, ⁴⁴Ti, others)

• High-Energy Astrophysics

Astrophysics Themes

• Astrophysics with radioactive Isotopes (Book Editor/Author Springer ASSL 453, 2018)

• Origin of the Elements  - Observational Studies with ESA's INTEGRAL Space Observatory, and in broader context
  within the EuroGenesis Program of the European Science Foundation:
  
• INTEGRAL Mission of ESA
  
• EuroGenesis Project "Massive Stars as Agents of Chemical Evolution" (MASCHE)
  

•   "Origin and Evolution of the Universe"   - at the Munich Cluster of Excellence
• Research Projects within RA-G as RA-Coordinator and PI: Feedback from Massive Stars; Supernovae
  

• Physics of the Interstellar Medium -  in a DFG Priority Program SPP1573
  
• Co-Researcher on a Multi-Wavelength Study of the Scorpius-Centaurus Stellar Groups
• PI of INTEGRAL observations and theoretical studies of the Orion - Eridanus region
  

• Astronomy with Radioactivities
  Conference Series Organizer ("Astronomy with Radioactivities"1996-2010)
  
  (picture on the right: 2011 workshop in Philip Island/AUS)

Instruments & Experiments

• Current:
• INTEGRAL SPI Spectrometer on
  ESA's INTEGRAL Observatory (2002-2016+): (as Co-PI)
• FERMI Gamma-Ray Burst Monitor (GBM) (2008-2018+):
  as Team Member and Co-I, Spectroscopy of GRBs and Solar Flares,
  other Galactic Sources and Emission

• Next-Generation: 
• Science Needs: see my US Decadal Review WhitePaper2010, and related Astro2010Papers, and the 'Perspectives' Chapter of the 2018 book ASSL 453
• GRIPS :2007-2011, Proposal for ESA's Cosmic Vision Program
• ACT: 2007+ Proposal for NASA's Explorer of the Nuclear Universe
• Xenia: 2010 Proposal for NASA: WHIM and Chemical Evolution of the Universe
• eAstrogam: 2016-2018,  Proposal for ESA's M5 Mission Program

• Past:
  
• COMPTEL  Imaging Compton Telescope on NASA's Compton Observatory (1991-2000): (as Co-I)