Hello and Welcome!
My name is Markus Feldt, I am a staff scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Heidelberg, Germany. I’ve started here as a postdoc in 1999 and stayed since.
During the first years I was the project scientist for the ALFA project, an experimental adaptive optics (AO) system on the 3.5m telescope on Calar Alto, Spain. Scientifically I was mostly concerned with the formation of massive stars. The interest in AO persisted, and I became more and more involved in instrumentation projects, primarily along the tracks of pyramid wavefront sensors and extreme adaptive optics. Today I am the German Co-I of the METIS project (see below).
Diploma in Atomic Physics, 1994
Technical University of Berlin
PhD (Dr.) in Natural Sciences, 1999
Friedrich Schiller University of Jena
Mid-infrared ELT Imager and Spectrograph
Direct imager for exoplanets at the VLT in Chile Spectroscopic and Polarimetric High-contrast Exoplanet REsearch
Proposal for a direct imager for exoplanets at the ESO VLT in Chile
Near infrared wavefront sensor based on the Pyramid Sensor
Adaptive optics with a Laser For Astronomy