Derrick
ლ(ಠ_ಠ )ლ
- Joined
- Nov 22, 2010
- Messages
- 5,085
- Reaction score
- 5
Berndt Feuerbacher was born in 1940 in Dresden, Germany. He completed his academic education at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich and took his PhD in Physics in 1968.
He was appointed as a Research Scientist at the European Space Agency (ESA – at the time called ESRO) in the European Space Laboratory (ESLAB, later the Space Science Department of ESA) at ESTEC in Noordwijk, Netherlands.
His research focussed on solid state and surface physics, applied to space related problems. He pioneered experimental methods such as photoelectric emission and atom-surface scattering.
His scientific achievements include the discovery of surface electronic states on metals by photoelectron spectroscopy or the verification of longitudinal plasmon excitation by light. Amongst other activities he was Principal Investigator for laboratory experiments on lunar surface material from the Apollo flights. He was project scientists for various science missions, amongst those the International Ultraviolet Explorer satellite and the First Spacelab Payload. From 1973 he was Deputy Head of the Astronomy Division of ESA.
In 1981 he was appointed Chair of Space Physics, at the University of Bochum in Germany, and simultaneously Director of the Institute of Space Simulation at the German Aerospace Center (DLR) in Cologne.
After German reunification in 1990, he supported the integration of the former Institute of Cosmic Research of the Academy of Science of the German Democratic Republic, founding two new DLR Institutes in Adlershof, Berlin.
His main research activities concentrated on materials science and solid state physics using microgravity conditions in space as a unique experimental parameter amongst other research in related areas. He contributed to progress in understanding of the interaction of dust and grain particles with neutral and plasma environments in space and on Earth and was active in research on comets and small bodies in planetary systems.
In this context he was involved in numerous space missions like TEXUS, Spacelab1, D1, D2, Eureca, Mir and MSL as well as in instrumental developments and ground operation systems.
He initiated the design and construction of a landing probe called “Philae” for the cornerstone ESA Rosetta mission, which presently is on its way to comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko, where it will land in 2014. His scientific results have been published in more than 180 journal papers, 12 books, and led to eight patents.
After his retirement in 2006, Berndt Feuerbacher was appointed founding director of the new DLR Institute of Space Systems in Bremen.
Berndt Feuerbacher advised ESA, NASA, and the German space agency in various functions. He is active in learned societies like the European Physical Society, DGLR, COSPAR, ELGRA and others as Member, Board and Council Member. He was elected full member of the IAA in 1986. He has been active in the IAF as Committee member since 1982, served as IPC Co-Chairman in 2001 (Toulouse), 2002 (Houston), and 2003 (Bremen). He was elected Vice President of IAF in 2006 before taking up his post as President.
Source
He was appointed as a Research Scientist at the European Space Agency (ESA – at the time called ESRO) in the European Space Laboratory (ESLAB, later the Space Science Department of ESA) at ESTEC in Noordwijk, Netherlands.
His research focussed on solid state and surface physics, applied to space related problems. He pioneered experimental methods such as photoelectric emission and atom-surface scattering.
His scientific achievements include the discovery of surface electronic states on metals by photoelectron spectroscopy or the verification of longitudinal plasmon excitation by light. Amongst other activities he was Principal Investigator for laboratory experiments on lunar surface material from the Apollo flights. He was project scientists for various science missions, amongst those the International Ultraviolet Explorer satellite and the First Spacelab Payload. From 1973 he was Deputy Head of the Astronomy Division of ESA.
In 1981 he was appointed Chair of Space Physics, at the University of Bochum in Germany, and simultaneously Director of the Institute of Space Simulation at the German Aerospace Center (DLR) in Cologne.
After German reunification in 1990, he supported the integration of the former Institute of Cosmic Research of the Academy of Science of the German Democratic Republic, founding two new DLR Institutes in Adlershof, Berlin.
His main research activities concentrated on materials science and solid state physics using microgravity conditions in space as a unique experimental parameter amongst other research in related areas. He contributed to progress in understanding of the interaction of dust and grain particles with neutral and plasma environments in space and on Earth and was active in research on comets and small bodies in planetary systems.
In this context he was involved in numerous space missions like TEXUS, Spacelab1, D1, D2, Eureca, Mir and MSL as well as in instrumental developments and ground operation systems.
He initiated the design and construction of a landing probe called “Philae” for the cornerstone ESA Rosetta mission, which presently is on its way to comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko, where it will land in 2014. His scientific results have been published in more than 180 journal papers, 12 books, and led to eight patents.
After his retirement in 2006, Berndt Feuerbacher was appointed founding director of the new DLR Institute of Space Systems in Bremen.
Berndt Feuerbacher advised ESA, NASA, and the German space agency in various functions. He is active in learned societies like the European Physical Society, DGLR, COSPAR, ELGRA and others as Member, Board and Council Member. He was elected full member of the IAA in 1986. He has been active in the IAF as Committee member since 1982, served as IPC Co-Chairman in 2001 (Toulouse), 2002 (Houston), and 2003 (Bremen). He was elected Vice President of IAF in 2006 before taking up his post as President.
Source