Maximilian Häberle
Astronomy PhD student

Curriculum Vitae

Education

September 2020 - (ongoing)PhD in Astronomy at MPIA from Heidelberg University (expected date of graduation in 2024)
October 2017 - August 2020Master of Science in Physics from the University of Heidelberg
October 2014 - August 2017Bachelor of Science in Physics from the University of Heidelberg

Working and Research Experience

September 2020 - (ongoing)PhD student at the Max-Planck-Institute for Astronomy, Heidelberg
March 2020 - August 2020Completion of master's thesis at the Max-Planck-Institute for Astronomy, Heidelberg
(Supervisors: Jörg-Uwe Pott and Nadine Neumayer)
September 2019 - March 2020Internship at the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) in Baltimore, USA, as part of my master’s thesis
(Supervisors: Andrea Bellini and Mattia Libralato)
January 2019 - (ongoing)Voluntary involvement in the EDEN exo-planet search project as a student observer
(PI: Daniel Apai)
Januar - March 2018Internship at the European Southern Observatory in Santiago, Chile
(Supervisors: Konrad Tristram and Willem-Jan de Wit)
March 2017 - July 2017
June 2018 - August 2020
Student research assistant at the Max-Planck-Institute for Astronomy, Heidelberg, working on various prototpye components of the ELT MICADO instrument
(Supervisors: Jörg-Uwe Pott and Gabriele Rodeghiero)
March 2017 - July 2017Bachelor’s thesis at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy (MPIA), Heidelberg
(Supervisors: Knud Jahnke and Jörg-Uwe Pott)
July 2013Participation in the “International Summer Science Institute“ at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel
(4-week internship in the department of particle physics)

Skills

LanguagesGerman (native speaker)
English (CEFR level: C1)
Spanish (CEFR level: B2)
ComputerProgramming experience in C++, FORTRAN and Python
Data analysis and visualization with Python
Experience with Linux Systems
Experience with several astronomy software tools and data archives:
(ds9, TOPCAT, astropy, ESO Archive and Pipelines, HST Archive, Gaia Archive)
Typesetting with LaTeX
Microsoft Office (Word, Power Point, Excel)
Adobe Photoshop
Observing Experience12 nights with the ESO/MPG 2.2 m telescope at La Silla Observatory, Chile
14 nights of remote observations with the 1.23 m telescope at Calar Alto Observatory, Spain
21 day commissioning campaign of the SDSS-V Local Volume Mapper at Las Campanas Observatory, Chile