High-energy experiments/measurements at the MPE-PANTER lab; Instrument scientist (infrared instrument on JAXA interplanetary mission Hayabusa2); participation in HERA, EUCLID, SKA working groups; calibration expert; co-investigator on JWST GTO and GO programs; teaching & outreach.

Hayabusa-2 TIR instrument & science team member; interpretation of thermal observations of the Moon (obtained by multiple weather satellites); thermo-physical studies of small bodies.

EU H2020 Research & Innovation project #687378 "Small Bodies Near and Far" (SBNAF), 2016-2019, 4 partner institutes in Germany, Poland, Hungary and Spain, with 1.6 M€ budget; Scientific exploitation of astrophysics and planetary data from space projects in combination with auxiliary data from multiple sources; Development of new tools, techniques, data products, web services, and databasesReconstruction of physical and thermal properties of near-Earth, main-belt and trans-Neptunian objects; Close to 100 refereed publications (SBNAF work and contributions to other projects); Wide range of outreach activities and multiple press releases. Hayabusa-2 TIR instrument & science team member. Calibration activities for Herschel, ALMA, SOFIA.

Team member in the Herschel-PACS instrument team (ESA space project); ground and in-orbit calibration, testing, verification; operational aspects; data analysis and interpretation; ESA review board member; supervision of Postdocs; publications, teaching and outreach; PI of a large research project "TNOs are cool".

Research, Community Support, Calibration, Data Reduction & Analysis, Outreach; space projects

Hubble Space Telescope (HST): Calibration project for the Faint Object Spectrograph (FOS); space project