Matthias Steinmetz

Matthias Steinmetz ( born March 8, 1966 in Saarbrücken ) is a German astrophysicist. He is Scientific Director of the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam and Professor at the University of Potsdam. He is the son of the classical philologist Peter Steinmetz.

Steinmetz is an expert on cosmology, galaxy formation and Computational Astrophysics. After completing his studies (1986-1991) in mathematics and physics in Saarbrücken and Munich, where he graduated with a thesis on supernovae of type Ia, he received his doctorate from 1991 to 1993 at the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics in Garching on " About the origin and morphology of the galaxies. " For this work he was awarded the Otto Hahn Medal of the Max Planck Society. After that, he conducted research at the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics and the Department of Astronomy of the University of California at Berkeley. In 1996 he became Assistant Professor (since 2000 Associate Professor ) at the Steward Observatory of the University of Arizona in Tucson.

Since 2002 he is a professor of astrophysics at the University of Potsdam and Director of the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam ( AIP). Where he heads the research department " Extragalactic Astrophysics and Cosmology ". Since 2004 he is Scientific Director of the AIP. In 2013 he was elected to the Berlin- Brandenburg Academy of Sciences.

Memberships in scientific societies (Selection)

Astronomische Gesellschaft Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft Integrated Authority File
557070
de