About
Marcel S. Pawlowski
PhD Student of Astronomy in Prof. Pavel Kroupa's research group at the University of Bonn. His main research interests are the phase-space distribution of Milky Way satellite galaxies and the formation of tidal dwarf galaxies. His blog about astronomy, photography and other topics can be found at http://8minutesold.com (in German and English).
Prof. Dr. Pavel Kroupa is a Czech-born Australian citizen teaching and researching at the University of Bonn on dynamics and stellar populations. He studied physics at The University of Western Australia, Perth, obtained his PhD from Cambridge University, UK, as an Isaac Newton and Senior Rouse Ball Scholar at Trinity College and got his habilitation at the University of Kiel. He then took up a Heisenberg Fellowship and later accepted the position as a professor at Bonn University in 2004. He was awarded a Leverhulme Trust Visiting Professorship (2007, Sheffield, UK) and a Swinburne Visiting Professorship (2007, Melbourne, Australia). He is pushing for German universities to modernise by adapting a transparent and fair tenure-track system. The "novel" scheme is that researchers would be hired young and ascend, based on merit, to full professorship in due time with increasing responsibilities but also rising endowment. Currently, some progressive universities have introduced one level of professorship only, while traditional universities retain a system based on rigid hierarchies.
His web-page: http://www.astro.uni-bonn.de/~pavel/
