Knud Jahnke: Research

Head of the Emmy Noether research group "Coevolution of Galaxies and Black Holes" since September 2007.

Area of research: "Coevolution of galaxies and black holes"

• stellar content, morphology, ISM state of QSO host galaxies
• AGN fuelling mechanisms (major/minor merging and gas accretion)
• quasar host galaxies at high redshift and quasar evolution (GEMS, STAGES, COSMOS, and Pan-STARRS projects, as well as with ground based adaptive optics)
• integral field spectroscopy of AGN hosts, e.g. with PMAS, VIMOS, and SINFONI
• A small battle in the field of climatology, involving meteorites, statistics and politics

Publications:

• Submitted to refereed Journals
  
• Published in refereed Journals
  
• Theses
  
• Public understanding of science
  
• Non-refereed publications, proceedings, and others

Talks:

• Talks and posters (scientific and public) including presentation slides

Public understanding of science:

• I (co-)created an application to view large astronomical images through just a web-browser. Visit the SkyWalker page for the existing SkyWalkers for the COSMOS, GEMS, and UDF images by the Hubble Space Telescope.

• since 09/2007, head of Emmy Noether-Group "Coevolution of galaxies and black holes" at MPIA
• 09/2005-08/2007 postdoctoral fellow, Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie, Heidelberg, Germany
• 2002-2005 postdoctoral fellow, Astrophysikalisches Institut Potsdam, Germany
• 1991-2002 Diploma and PhD studies at Hamburg University, Germany and Univ. of Uppsala (Sweden)

Collaborations:

• Member of the COSMOS and VLA-COSMOS galaxy evolution projects (since 2005; at MPIA with Eva Schinnerer, Vernesa Smolcic, Alejo Martinez Sansigre at MPIA)
• Member of the GEMS and STAGES galaxy evolution projects (since 2002)
• Lutz Wisotzki, Asmus Böhm, Isabelle Gavignaud (at AIP); different AGN host galaxy projects)
• Mara Salvato and others at CalTech (composition, dynamics and kinematics of lower luminosity QSO host galaxies with the VLT)
• Frederic Courbin (EPFL/Lausanne), Geraldine Letawe et al. (Liége), "VLT spectroscopy of QSO hosts" (since 2000)

Lectures:

• "Einführung in die Astronomie und Astrophysik II" (Uni Heidelberg, SoSe 2010) [class webpage]
• "Aktive Galaxien, Quasare, Schwarze Löcher" (Uni Potsdam, SoSe 2005) [class webpage]
• Übungen zu "Einführung in die Astronomie und Astrophysik II" (Uni Potsdam, SoSe 2004) [class webpage]
• Übungen zu "Kosmologie und frühes Universum" (Uni Potsdam, SoSe 2003) [class webpage]