Dr. Jan-Uwe Ness

........ and a little Jan with his Great Aunt......

Saturn Orion Nebular taken with my Digital Camera on Hamburg's Great Refractor

Address:

Phone: +34-918131-436
Telefax: +34-918131-192
e-mail : juness@sciops.esa.int

Career

I obtained my PhD degree on high-resolution X-ray spectroscopy of Stellar Coronae at Hamburger Sternwarte, the observatory of the University of Hamburg, Germany. My supervisor was Prof. Jürgen H.M.M. Schmitt. My second post-doc position was at the University of Oxford, where I worked with Prof. Dame Carole Jordan (8/2004-12/2005) on X-ray and UV spectroscopy of Stellar Coronae. From January 2006 to November 2008, I have worked at Arizona State University with Prof. Sumner Starrfield. The project was funded by a Chandra Fellowship grant.
In 2008, I have been awarded a Ramon y Cajal Fellowship for research in Physics and Astronomy. Out of over 200 applications, I have ranked 9th.
I have started my present job on December 1st, 2008 as a scientist at the XMM-Newton Science Operations Centre near Villanueva de la Cañada.

Basic information:

• Curriculum Vitae
• Publication list
• Research interests

Research Interests:

• Magnetically induced activity of cool stars
• X-ray observations of Classical Novae
• X-ray emission from Saturn
• Simulation of interacting galaxies with starformation

Activities

• Cora Line fitting program
  
• The buildings and the telescopes at Hamburg Observatory
• History of Hamburger Sternwarte
• Web presentation of Hamburger Sternwarte for the public (in German)
• My Software
• Press releases on my X-ray Observations of Saturn (2004)

Publications

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• First Author
• Peer reviewed papers
• Astronomical Circulars
• Unrefereed papers
• Chandra Proposals
• XMM Proposals

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