Eckhard Sturm – short info
-Initially wanted to become a professional cellist. But finally chose physics
-PhD in 1995 with Prof. Rolf Kudritzki at the LMU/Institute for Astronomy, Munich (Disentangling of composite spectra, studies of stellar atmospheres with binaries)
-Joined MPE in 1995 as support astronomer for the German ISO-SWS data centre (ISO was ESA’s Infrared Space Observatory in the 1990s, SWS was the on-board Short Wavelength Spectrometer, built partly at MPE)
-1998: 1 year at Caltech (Pasadena) as temporary staff scientist
-Since 1999 back at MPE
-Was: Manager of the PACS Instrument Control Center for ESA’s Herschel Space Observatory, then became Project Manager of PACS, and finally PI of PACS (succeeding Albrecht Poglitsch); and Project Manager of GRAVITY (ESO/VLTI) and ERIS (ESO(VLT)
-Is: Senior Scientist and Project Leader at MPE (IR Group), Project Manager of MICADO (the first light imager for the ELT)
-Science concentrates on AGNs, from the innermost scales (structure and kinematics of the central parsecs) to larger scales (outflows and feedback), mostly in the infrared and (sub-)mm. I have worked a lot on mid- and far-Infrared diagnostics. I was PI of the HERSCHEL guaranteed time key project SHINING (see
https://www.mpe.mpg.de/ir/SHINING), and PI of the (open time) ESO VLTI Large Programme “The Core of the Matter” (AGN with GRAVITY) see the ADS library at https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/user/libraries/lBrTmqOXSa6TUYaq2ulbQQ
