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Prof. Dr. Matthias Kadler

"Matthias Kadler"

Email: matthias.kadler@astro.uni-wuerzburg.de

Phone: +49931/3185138

I am astronomy professor, working at the Institut für Theoretische Physik und Astrophysik at Würzburg University. My research group is working on studies of black holes and the relativistic plasma jets being ejected from their immediate vicinity. Such jets are observed in both Galactic, stellar-mass black hole systems, and in extragalactic, supermassive black hole system and they dominate the emission of these objects over the whole spectrum from radio to gamma-ray energies. Such jets show fascinating phenomena like (apparent) superluminal motion, intraday variability, and dramatic outbursts.
How do black holes form jets? How are they collimated and accelerated? How do they interact with the environment of their host galaxies? In collaboration with colleagues in Bamberg, at the Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie in Bonn, and at institutes all over the world, we are trying to address these and other questions with the help of astronomical observations across the electromagnetic spectrum. We are particularly focusing on radio observations of jets using the special technique of Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) with the VLBA and the LBA, radio single-dish observations with the Effelsberg 100-m telescope, X-ray observations with XMM-Newton, Suzaku, Swift, and INTEGRAL, and gamma-ray observations with Fermi/LAT. I am a Fermi/LAT affiliated scientists and do a lot of my work in collaboration with the LAT Science Working Group (SWG) on Blazars and other AGN.

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28.08.1975:
Born in Brake, Germany

01.07.1995:   
Abitur, Gymnasium Brake, Germany

01.10.1995/31.03.1998:    
Physics and Mathematics studies at the Universität Hamburg, Germany

01.04.1998/20.06.2002:  
Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy studies at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Germany

20.08.1998/21.01.1999:   
Undergraduate Scientific auxiliary in the Infrarot Interferometrie group at the Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie, Germany

22.01.1999/20.06.2002:   
Undergraduate Student in the VLBI group at the Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie Bonn, Germany, Advisors: E. Ros and H. Falcke

21.06.2002/20.06.2005:   
PhD student in the VLBI group at the Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie Bonn, Germany, Advisors: E. Ros and J. Kerp; Thesis Commitee: J. Kerp, U. Klein, E. Ros

21.06.2002/20.06.2005:   
Fellowship of the Max-Planck International Research School (IMPRS) for Radio- and Infrared Astronomy

21.06.2005/31.10.2005:   
Research fellow of the Radioastronomisches Institut der Universität Bonn, Germany, and guest at the VLBI group at the Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie Bonn, Germany

24.10.2005/24.11.2005:   
Research fellow at the VLBI group at the Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie Bonn, Germany

01.12.2005/31.12.2005:   
NRC Postdoctoral Associate at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center (ASD Division)

01.01.2006/30.03.2008:   
NASA Postdoctoral Research Associate (NPP) at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center (ASD Division)

01.04.2008/31.08.2008:
CRESST/USRA, Research Consultant and guest at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center (ASD Division)

01.04.2008/14.03.2011:    
Akademischer Rat a. Zt. at the Dr. Remeis Sternwarte Bamberg, astronomical institute of the
Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg

since 15.04.2011:                
Professor for Astrophysics at the Institut für Theoretische Physik und Astrophysik at Würzburg university

  • 22.06.2002: Fellowship of the International Max-Planck Research School (IMPRS) for Radio and Infrared Astronomy (2002 – 2005)
  • 01.12.2005: National Research Council Associateship Award (NRC: Dezember 2005) and NASA Postdoctoral Program (NPP: Januar 2006)
  • 27.06.2007: Otto-Hahn Medal of the Max Planck Society 2006

Committees:  

  • NRAO Users Committee 2008-2011
  • ANTARES Institution Board since 2009   
  • ANTARES Conference Committee since 2010   
  • IMPRS Thesis Committee 2008-2010    


Organizations:   

  • American Astronomical Society   
  • Astronomische Gesellschaft    


Collaborations:    

  • GLAST/LAT Affiliated Scientist   
  • Swift Associated Scientist (Follow-Up Team)   
  • Co Program Manager of the TANAMI team   
  • Team member of the MOJAVE Collaboration   
  • Team member ANTARES Collaboration Collaboration   
  • Member of KM3NeT Consortium Collaboration