Student Projects

Supervised projects
(Internship, Diplomathesis, Masterthesis, PhD-Thesis, Post Docs) in reverse order

  • 2022: Master Thesis, Niklas Tarkian, TU Darmstadt, Development, Testing and Evolution of a training facility for Spacecraft Engineers and controllers of the XMM-Newton space observatory.
  • 2018-2021: Post Doc: Dr. Gabriele De Canio, European Space Operations Centre Darmstadt, Modeling of incremental increase of autonomous Target of Opportunity operations for astrophysical missions and its implications for exploration mission operations.
  • 2019: Master Thesis, Viktor Bender, Humboldt University Berlin, European Space Operations Centre Darmstadt, , Analysis of minimum ionising particles and low protons and their potential effects on the spacecraft as a spin off from XMM-Newton observations
  • 2017-2019: Young Graduate Trainee, Rene Wittmann, European Space Operations Centre DarmstadtSpacecraft Simulator Migration and use cases
  • 2017: Master Thesis (co-supervisor), Daniel Kenner, University of Stuttgart, European Space Operations Centre Darmstadt,  Development of validation software for the acceptance testing of the migrated XMM-Newton spacecraft simulator, with a special view on automation and usage for spacecraft controller training
  • 2012: Young Graduate Trainee, Thomas Godard, European Space Operations Centre Darmstadt, Automated health monitoring of the XMM-Newton spacecraft
  • 2007-2010: PhD Thesis (co-supervision), Pilar Esquej, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Tidal Disruption Candidates from the XMM-Newton Slew Survey
  • 2007: Master Thesis, Gustaf Winroth, University of Linkoepig, Energy Calibration of Different Modes of a pn-CCD-camera on board the X-ray Observatory XMM-Newton
  • 2007: Irene Rodriguez,  Internship, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, European Space Astronomy Center Madrid , XMM-Newton Cross-Calibration
  • 2007: Pablo Marcos, Internship, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, European Space Astronomy Center Madrid , XMM-Newton Cross-Calibration
  • 2006, Fernando Bayon (co-supervision), Internship, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, European Space Astronomy Center Madrid , Fitting improvements of the cross calibration tool for XMM-Newton
  • 2006: Andre Burzlaff, TU Achen, European Space Astronomy Center Madrid, Evaluation of EPIC SciSim capabilities from a calibration point of view
  • 2006: Antonio Carrillo, Internship, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, European Space Astronomy Center Madrid, XMM-Newton EPIC timing monitoring
  • 2006: Stefan Doerr, Internship, University of Tuebingen, European Space Astronomy Center Madrid, EPIC detector calibration, An automated cross call fitting tool
  • 2006: Elena Gonzalez (co-supervision), Internship, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, European Space Astronomy Center Madrid, Fitting aspects of an automated cross calibration fitting tool for XMM-Newton
  • 2005: Daniel Harbarth, Internship, University of Tuebingen, European Space Astronomy Center Madrid, EPIC detector calibration
  • 2005: Anne Wellbrok, Internship, University of Warwick, European Space Astronomy Center Madrid, EPIC  Detector timing Calibration using various pulsars
  • 2005: Isabel Caballero, Internship, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, European Space Astronomy Center Madrid, EPIC Detector timing Calibration using the Crab Pulsar
  • 2004: Pilar Esquej, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, European Space Astronomy Center Madrid, Detector Calbration using Super Nova Remnants
  • 2004: Gabriele Schoenherr, Internship, European Space Astronomy Center Madrid, University of Bonn, Crab Pulsar Data Analysis
  • 2000: Tilman Kaiser (co-supervision): Diploma Thesis, University of Tuebingen, Ground Calibration of the EPIC EPIC-pn Detector