Education
1996 Diploma (M. Sc.) in Physics, University of Bonn 1999 Ph.D. in Physics (Advisor: Prof. F.-J. Lübken), University of Bonn 2004 Habilitation (German qualification for a professorship) in Atmospheric Physics at the Leibniz Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Kühlungsborn, and the University of Rostock
Academic positions held
1996 – 1999 Research Assistant at the Physics Institute, University of Bonn 2000 – 2007 Postdoctoral Scientist at the Leibniz Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Kühlungsborn (IAP) 2003 Tenured Research Scientist at the Leibniz Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Kühlungsborn (IAP) 2004 Appointed as “Privatdozent” (Associate Professor) in Atmospheric Physics at the University of Rostock 2005 – 2006 On leave from IAP as visiting Associate Professor at the Department of Meteorology, Stockholm University, Sweden. 2007 Offers for Professorships at University of Wuppertal and University of Rostock 2008 – 2012 Professor of Experimental Atmospheric Physics at the University of Rostock and Head of the Department “Radars and Sounding Rockets” at IAP 2012 – now Director of the DLR-Institute of Atmospheric Physics at Oberpfaffenhofen and Full Professor (Chair) for Atmospheric Physics at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich.
Awards and Honours
2014 Elected member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Science and Humanities (http://www.bbaw.de/en/) 2009 Article “Polar mesosphere summer echoes (PMSE): Review of observations and current understanding (by M. Rapp and F.-J. Lübken, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 4, 2601-2633, 2004)” highlighted by Thomson Reuters Science Watch as a highly cited paper in the field of Geosciences 2005 NASA Group Achievement Award for the Equatorial Ionospheric Studies II Sounding Rocket Campaign conducted from the Kwajalein Atoll, Republic of the Marshall Islands July- September 2004
Major completed and ongoing projects as PI or Co-PI (Principal Investigator)
Community Service
Selected publications:
(from a total of ~120 in peer reviewed journals; full list available at Google Scholar)