CV Holger Kreckel
Employment| since Dec 2017 | Max Planck Research Group Leader, MPI for Nuclear Physics, Heidelberg |
| Sept 2012 - Nov 2017 | Group Leader (ERC Starting Grant), MPI for Nuclear Physics, Heidelberg |
| Winter term 2017 | Guest Professor, University of Innsbruck |
| 2012 Jan-Aug | Visiting Scientist MPI for Astronomy and MPI for Nuclear Physics, Heidelberg |
| 2009-2011 | Research Scientist, Chemistry Department, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL, USA |
| 2007-2009 | Postdoctoral Researcher, Astrophysics Laboratory, Columbia University, New York City, NY, USA |
| 2004-2007 | Postdoctoral Researcher, Max-Planck-Institute for Nuclear Physics, Heidelberg, Germany |
Education
| 2021 Habilitation | Habilitation (Venia legendi) in Physics, University of Heidelberg |
| 2003 Doctorate | Dr. rer. nat (doctorate in nat. sciences) in Physics, Summa Cum Laude, University of Heidelberg, Germany. Advisor: Professor Andreas Wolf |
| 2000 Diploma | Diploma in Physics, University of Heidelberg. Advisors: Profs. Dirk Schwalm and Andreas Wolf. Thesis: Coulomb Explosion Imaging of H3+ |
| 1996 Vordiplom | Vordiplom in Physics, University of Siegen, Germany |
Teaching
| WS2023/2024 | Lecture Molecular Astrophysics (with D. Semenov & G. Perotti, MPIA) |
| SS2023 | Tutor Experimental Physics II (Electrodynamics) |
| WS2022/2023 | Lecture course on Molecular Astrophysics (with D. Semenov, MPIA) |
| SS2022 | Tutor Experimental Physics II (Electrodynamics) |
| WS2021/2022 | Lecture course on Molecular Astrophysics (with D. Semenov, MPIA) |
| SS2021 | Tutor Experimental Physics II (Electrodynamics) |
| SS2020 | Seminar "Key Experiments of Atomic and Molecular Physics", (with A. Wolf, MPIK) |
| WS2019/2020 | Lecture course on Molecular Astrophysics (with D. Semenov, MPIA) |
| SS2019 | Tutor Experimental Physics IV (Nuclear and Particle Physics) |
| SS2018 | Tutor Experimental Physics IV (Nuclear and Particle Physics) |
| WS2017/2018 | Lecture: Molecular Astrophysics (Innsbruck University) |
| SS2017 | Tutor Experimental Physics IV (Nuclear and Particle physics) |
| WS2016/2017 | Lecture: Molecular Astrophysics |
| SS2015 | Tutor Experimental Physics IV (Atomic and Mol. Physics) |
| SS2014 | Tutor Experimental Physics IV (Atomic and Mol. Physics) |
| WS2013/2014 | Lecture course on Molecular Astrophysics (with D. Semenov, MPIA) |
| SS2013 | Seminar on Advanced Topics in Quantum Mechanics (with A. Kellerbauer, M. Lange) |
| WS2012/2013 | Tutor Experimental Physics III (Optics and Quantum Mechanics) |
| SS2012 | Lecture: Molecular Astrophysics (with D. Semenov, MPIA), Heidelberg University |
| 2004-2006 | Tutor, Seminar on At. and Mol. Physics, Heidelberg University |
| 2001-2002 | Instructor Advanced Laboratory class, Heidelberg University |
Visits
| December 2007 | Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, USA |
| July-Sept. 2006 | Columbia University, New York City, USA |
| May-June 2004 | Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel |
Service
| Referee | Physical Review Letters, Journal of Chemical Physics, Nature Communications, The Astrophysical Journal, Physical Review A, Scientific Reports, International Journal of Mass Spectrometry, Theoretical Chemistry Accounts, Phil. Transactions of the Royal Society |
| Member | Swedish Research Council / 2020 to 2021 |
| Reviewer | External reviewer: National Science Foundation (NSF), USA, external reviewer: French National Research Agency (ANR), France |
| Safety Officer | Ion trap/laser laboratory, Max-Planck-Institute for Nuclear Physics |
Patent
Ion Deflector for two-dimensional control of ion beam cross sectional spread, H. Kreckel, H. Bruhns, D.W. Savin, Columbia Technology Ventures, US utility patent application, serial number 12/708,886 (2009)
Funding
- P.I. DFG Priority Program 1573, "Spectroscopy of C60+ and Complex Organic Molecular Ions: from Mid-IR Emission to the Diffuse Interstellar Bands", starting date Nov. 2014
- P.I. ERC Starting Grant: ASTROLAB, "Cold Collisions and the Pathways toward Life in Interstellar Space", Sept. 2012 - Nov. 2017
- Co-P.I., D.W. Savin, H. Kreckel, Improved Understanding of Molecular Clouds and Emission Line Objects with Laboratory Astrophysics Studies at the Heidelberg Ion Storage Ring, NSF program: Galactic Astronomy, July 2008 - 2011