Curriculum vitae. Research Experience. Education

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1 Curriculum vitae André Müller Name André Müller Contact European Southern Observatory Phone: Information Av. Alonso de Cordova 3107 Web: amueller/ Vitacura [email protected] Santiago, Chile Research Experience 09/2012 present Postdoctoral Research Fellow European Southern Observatory, Santiago, Chile 07/ /2012 Postdoctoral researcher Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, Heidelberg, Germany 03/ /2012 Ph.D. research Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, Heidelberg, Germany 12/ /2008 Diploma project Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, Heidelberg, Germany 08/2005 Mini-Forschung project (during undergraduate studies) Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, Heidelberg, Germany 03/ /2004 Student research assistantship Physics Department, Friedrich Schiller University of Jena, Germany Supervisor: Prof. R. Sauerbrey Education 03/ /2012 Ph.D. in Astronomy Max Planck Institute for Astronomy Heidelberg and Ruprecht-Karls University Heidelberg, Germany Thesis: Characterization of Herbig Ae/Be stars and PRIMA FSU-A as a Fringe Tracker for MIDI Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Th. Henning Advisors: Dr. R. Launhardt, Dr. M. E. van den Ancker 03/ /2011 ESO Studentship European Southern Observatory, Garching, Germany 10/ /2008 Diploma (equiv. M.Sc.) in Physics, Friedrich Schiller University of Jena, Germany Thesis: Characterization of the variability of nearby young stars Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Th. Henning, Prof. Dr. A. Hatzes 07/2000 Abitur (general qualification for university entrance) 1

2 Teaching Experience 04/2014 Supervision of the students project MID-infrared sky variability and improvement of MIDI photometry 03/ /2011 Teaching assistantship of Introduction to IDL for scientific research (block course) University of Heidelberg, Germany 2006 Teaching assistantship of lecture Planet formation Friedrich Schiller University of Jena, Germany 2004/2005 Teaching assistantship of advanced lab course for physics diploma students Friedrich Schiller University of Jena, Germany Public Outreach & Education ESO Open House Speaker at Paranal during video live connection with ESO HQ in Garching from Cerro Paranal MPIA Open House Explaining and demonstrating basic concepts of interferometry to public visitors, Germany, Hours of Astronomy Public observations and presentations, Munich, Germany, MPIA Heidelberg guided tours Presentation of the scientific work carried out at MPIA for visiting groups ( , ) Night of Science (Nacht der Wissenschaft) Explaining basic concepts of interferometry to public visitors, November 10, 2007 Volkssternwarte Urania guided tours Observations and explaining basic astronomical concepts to public visitors, Tutor of the working group Astrophotography Astronomisches Sommerlager, , André Müller CV

3 Publications in Refereed Journals (16) The Young stellar triple system GW Ori: variations in the inner disk Fang, M., Sicilia-Aguilar, A., Roccatagliata, V., et al., (incl. Müller, A.), A&A, in press, 2014, arxiv: (15) Mid-infrared interferometry with K-band fringe tracking. I. The VLTI MIDI+FSU experiment Müller, A., Pott, J.-U., Mérand, A., et al., A&A, 567, A98, 2014 (14) Radial velocity variations in the young eruptive star EX Lup Kóspál, A., Mohler-Fischer, M., Sicilia-Aguilar, A., et al. (incl. Müller, A.), A&A, 561, 61, 2014 (13) The VLTI/MIDI survey of massive young stellar objects - Sounding the inner regions around intermediateand high-mass young stars using mid-infrared interferometry Boley, P., Linz, H., van Boekel, R., et al. (incl. Müller, A.), A&A, 2013, 558, 24 (12) Reanalysis of the FEROS observations of HIP Müller, A., Roccatagliata, V., Henning, Th., et al., A&A, 556, A3, 2013 (11) Active asteroid belt causes the UXOR phenomenon in RZ Piscium de Wit, W.J., Grinin, V.P., Potavnov, I.S., Shakhovskoi, D.N., Müller, A., Moerchen, M., A&A, 553, 1, 2013 (10) Spiral Arms in the Asymmetrically Illuminated Disk of MWC 758 and Constraints on Giant Planets Grady, C.A., Muto, T., Hashimoto, J., Fukagawa, M., Currie, T., et al. (incl. Müller, A.), ApJ, 762, 48, 2013 (9) The ESPRI project: astrometric exoplanet search with PRIMA I. Instrument description and performance of first light observations Sahlmann, J., Henning, T., Queloz, D., Quirrenbach, A. et al. (incl. Müller, A.), A&A, 551, 52, 2013 (8) A Likely Close-In Low-Mass Stellar Companion to the Transitional Disk Star HD Biller, B. et al. (incl. Müller, A.), ApJ, 753, L38, 2012 (7) Orbit determination of the young very low-mass spectroscopic binary CHXR 74 based on UVES and NACO observations Joergens, V., Janson, M., and Müller, A., A&A, 537, 13, 2012 (6) HD : A young triple system Müller, A., Carmona, A., van den Ancker, M. E., van Boekel, R., Launhardt, R., and Henning, Th., A&A, 535, 3, 2011 (5) HD B: A young star has reached its rotational limit Müller, A., van den Ancker, M. E., Launhardt, R., Pott, J. U., Fedele, D., and Henning, Th., A&A, 530, A85, 2011 (4) Improved radial velocity orbit of the young binary brown dwarf candidate ChaHα 8 Joergens, V., Müller, A., Reffert, S., A&A, Volume 521, A24, 2010 (3) A young massive planet in a star-disk system Setiawan, J., Henning, Th., Launhardt, R., Müller, A., Weise, P., Kürster, M., André Müller CV 3

4 Nature, 451, 38-41, 2008 (2) M Jup Radial Velocity Companion Orbiting the Brown Dwarf Candidate Cha Hα 8 Joergens, V., Müller, A., ApJ, 666, Issue 2, pp. L113-L116, 2007 (1) Evidence for a Planetary Companion around a Nearby Young Star Setiawan, J., Weise, P., Henning, Th., Launhardt, R., Müller, A., Rodmann, J., ApJ, 660, Issue 2, pp. L145-L148, 2007 Unrefereed Publications (14) The 2014 Interferometric Imaging Beauty Contest Monnier, J. D., et al. (incl. Müller, A.), Proceedings of SPIE, Vol. 9146, Optical and Infrared Interferometry IV, 2014 (13) VLTI status update: a decade of operations and beyond Mérand, A., et al. (incl. Müller, A.), Proceedings of SPIE Vol. 9146, Optical and Infrared Interferometry IV, 2014 (12) Generic control software connecting astronomical instruments to the reflective memory data recording system of VLTI - bossvlti Pozna, E., et al. (incl. Müller, A.), Proceedings of SPIE, Vol. 9152, Software and Cyberinfrastructure for Astronomy III, 2014 (11) New horizons for VLTI 10 micron interferometry: first scientific measurements with external PRIMA fringe tracking Pott, J.-U., Müller, A., Karovicova, I., Delplancke, F., Proceedings of SPIE, Vol. 8445, Optical and Infrared Interferometry III, 2012 (10) Status of PRIMA for the VLTI heading to astrometry Schmid, C. et al. (incl. Müller, A.), Proceedings of SPIE, Vol. 8445, Optical and Infrared Interferometry III, 2012 (9) Measuring the Night Sky Brightness with the Lightmeter Müller, A., Sarazin, M., Wuchterl, G., RevMexAA, 41, 46, 2011 (8) First results using PRIMA FSU as a fringe tracker for MIDI Müller, A. et al., Proceedings of SPIE, Vol. 7734, Optical and Infrared Interferometry II, edited by William C. Danchi, Françoise Delplancke, Jayadev K. Rajagopal, 2010 (7) First results from fringe tracking with the PRIMA fringe sensor unit Sahlmann, J. et al. (incl. Müller, A.), Proceedings of SPIE, Vol. 7734, Optical and Infrared Interferometry II, edited by William C. Danchi, Françoise Delplancke, Jayadev K. Rajagopal, 2010 (6) Status of PRIMA for the VLTI or the quest for user-friendly fringe tracking Schmid, C. et al. (incl. Müller, A.), Proceedings of SPIE, Vol. 7734, Optical and Infrared Interferometry II, edited by William C. Danchi, Françoise Delplancke, Jayadev K. Rajagopal, 2010 (5) Preparing the exoplanet search with PRIMA: searching for reference stars and target characterization Geisler, R., Setiawan, J., Henning, Th., Queloz, D., Quirrenbach, A., Launhardt, R., 4 André Müller CV

5 Müller, A., Reffert, S., Weise, P., Proceedings IAU Symposium, No. 249, 2008 (4) The ESPRI project: astrometric exoplanet search with PRIMA Launhardt, R. et al. (incl. Müller, A.), Proceedings of the SPIE, Volume 7013, Optical and Infrared Interferometry, edited by Markus Schöller, William C. Danchi, Françoise Delplancke, 2008 (3) High-resolution Spectroscopic Characterization of Young Stars, Precision Spectroscopy in Astrophysics Weise, P., Setiawan, J., Henning, Th., Müller, A., Proceedings of the ESO/Lisbon/Aveiro Conference, held in Aveiro, Portugal, September Edited by N.C. Santos, L. Pasquini, A.C.M. Correia, and M. Romanielleo. Garching, Germany, 2008 pp (2) Discovery of an 18-Jupiter-Mass RV Companion Orbiting the Brown Dwarf Candidate Cha Hα8 Joergens, V., Müller, A., Extreme Solar Systems, ASP Conference Series, Vol. 398, proceedings of the conference held June, 2007, at Santorini Island, Greece (1) MAESTRO-1 b: A Transiting Planet in a Close Binary? Setiawan, J., Weldrake, D., Afonso, C., Henning, Th., Launhardt, R., Müller, A., Weise, P., Extreme Solar Systems, ASP Conference Series, Vol. 398, proceedings of the conference held June, 2007, at Santorini Island, Greece. Edited by D. Fischer, F. A. Rasio, S. E. Thorsett, and A. Wolszczan, p.113 Miscellaneous Publications (8) Die Supernova 2004dj in NGC 2403 Müller, A., Schoenball, M., VdS-Journal, 1/2005 (Nr. 16) (7) Einsatz visueller OIII-Filter bei CCD-Aufnahmen? Diederich, H. G., Müller, A., VdS-Journal, 3/2003 (Nr. 12) (6) Der Workshop Astrofotografie mit der Webcam Müller, A., VdS-Journal, 3/2003 (Nr. 12) (5) Beobachtungen im ASL 2002 Müller, A., VdS-Journal, 1/2003 (Nr.10) (4) Der Workshop Spektroskopie Müller, A., VdS-Journal, 1/2003 (Nr.10) (3) Astronomie mit der Webcam Müller, A., NightSky, 1/2003 (2) Deep Sky mit der Webcam?! Müller, A., NightSky, 2/2002 (1) Die Webcam in der Astrofotografie Müller, A., NightSky, 1/2002 André Müller CV 5

6 Conference and Seminar Presentations The MIDI+FSU-A mode Concluding MIDI science group meeting / MPIA / Heidelberg, Germany / May 05, 2014 HD MPIA PSF Seminar / Heidelberg, Germany / August 01, 2012 HD135344B: A young star has reached its rotational limit MPIA PSF Workshop / Boppard am Rhein, Germany / October 19, 2011 Kepler Results MPIA PSF-Seminar / Heidelberg, Germany / July 27, 2011 Measuring the Night Sky Brightness with the Lightmeter Astronomical Site Testing Data in Chile / Valparaiso, Chile / December 02, 2010 PRIMA FSU as a fringe tracker for MIDI FRINGE meeting / Jena / July 19, 2010 First results using PRIMA FSU as a fringe tracker for MIDI SPIE conference in Optical and Infrared Interferometry II / San Diego, USA / July 01, 2010 MIDI with PRIMA FSU-A fringe tracking sensitivities and results achieved so far (on-axis) MIDI science team meeting / MPIA Heidelberg, Germany / May 10, st analysis of MIDI data taken with PRIMA FSU-A as a fringe-sensor (on-axis) MIDI science team meeting / MPIA Heidelberg, Germany / November 10, 2009 Light Pollution MPIA PSF-Seminar / Heidelberg, Germany / February 11, 2009 Basics of Interferometry MPIA Students Workshop / Munchhausen, France / September 23, st Continuous Measurements of Nightsky Brightness with a New Low Cost Luxmeter 8th European Symposium for the Protection of the Night Sky / Vienna, Austria / August 23, 2008 Challenges in searches for exoplanets around active stars MPIA PSF-Seminar / Heidelberg, Germany / February 28, 2008 How to find extrasolar planets? MPIA Students Workshop / Comer Lake, Italy / March 03, 2007 Conferences and Workshops Attended Concluding MIDI science group meeting MPIA / Heidelberg, Germany / May 5 6, 2014 Herbig Ae/Be stars: The missing link in star formation Santiago, Chile / April 7 11, 2014 Protostars & Planets VI Heidelberg, Germany / July 15 20, 2013 MPIA PSF Workshop Boppard am Rhein, Germany / October 17 19, 2011 Astronomical Site Testing Data in Chile Valparaiso, Chile / December 01 03, André Müller CV

7 SPIE - Astronomical Instrumentation San Diego, USA / June 28 July 02, 2010 Workshop on Interferometry Imaging WII09 Imaging the heart of astrophysical objects with optical/infrared interferometry Château de Goutelas, France / May 26 29, 2009 Sixth IRAM millimeter interferometry school Grenoble, France / October 06 10, th European Symposium for the Protection of the Night Sky Kuffner Observatory, Vienna, Austria / August 22 23, 2008 VLTI Summer School Keszthely, Hungary / June 01 13, 2008 Community Service LOC member and session chair for the conference Herbig Ae/Be stars: The missing link in star formation held from April 7 11, 2014 at ESO, Santiago, Chile André Müller CV 7

8 Awards 2013 Fizeau exchange visitors program 03/ /2011 ESO Studentship Program, The European Southern Observatory Computer Skills Operating Systems Languages Markup Unix/Linux and MS Windows IDL (expert), Fortran77 (intermediate), ESO-MIDAS (intermediate), C (basic) LATEX, HTML, MIA+EWS (expert), FEROS-DRS (expert), EsoRex/Gasgano for NACO/VISIR/CRIRES/XSHOOTER (intermediate), Molecfit (expert), own pipeline for PRIMA FSU-A Miscellaneous Languages Other Interests Fellowships German (native), English (fluent), Spanish (basic), French (basic) Sports (football, running, table tennis, basketball) photography, amateur astronomy, hiking Royal Astronomical Society Volkssternwarte Urania Jena e.v. Media coverage Die Vermessung des Himmels, Condor.cl, Funkelnde Wüstennächte, Stuttgarter-Zeitung.de, Last update: August 18, André Müller CV