Michael Kramer#
| Membership Number: | 4408 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | EARTH & COSMIC SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2016 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.mpg.de/397578/radioastronomie_wissM247 http://www3.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de/staff/mkramer/About_Me.html |
http://www3.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de/staff/mkramer/About_Me.html
Present and Previous Positions
- Since 2009 Director and Scientific member at the Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie
- Since 2006 Professor for Astrophysics at the University of Manchester
- 2007 - 2009 Associate Director of the Jodrell Bank Observatory
- 2005 - 2009 Head of the Pulsar Group of the Jodrell Bank Observatory/Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics
- Lecturer (1999 - 2003), Senior Lecturer (2003 - 2005) and Reader (2005 - 2006) at the University of Manchester
- 1998 - 1999 Otto-Hahn fellow at Univ. of California at Berkeley
- 1996 - 1998 Staff astronomer at MPIfR
- 1995 Study of Physics in Cologne and Bonn, doctorate Univ. Bonn
Fields of Scholarship
- Gravitational physics and cosmology
- Pulsars and neutron star properties
- Galactic and environmental probes
- Binary and stellar evolution
Honours and Awards
- Marcel Grossman Award
- Herschel Medal - Royal Astronomical Society
- Descartes Prize - EU
- Academy Award - Berlin-Brandenburg Academy
- George-Darwin-Lectureship of the Royal Astronomical Society
