Current Scientific Collaborations of Prof. Dr. Andreas Eckart

Member of an international collaboration to built the near-infrared imaging beam combiner LINC-NIRVANA for the Large Binocular Telescope (LBT)
Participating institutes are the I.Physikalisches Institut, University of Cologne, Germany, the MPI for Astronomy in Heidelberg, Germany, the Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcerti, Italy, and the Max-Planck-Institute for Radioastronomy in Bonn, Germany
Member of the Scientific Council and Executive Board of the German Center for Infrared and Optical Interferometry (FRINGE) led by Thomas Henning (AIU, MPIA).
Project leader of project A4 "Dynamics and Starformation in Active Galaxies: mm-Interferometry and Near-Infrared Observations" supported by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) via grant SFB 494 (Sonderforschungsbereich 494)
Member of the international (French, German) NUGA team to study the molecular gas distribution and dynamics in nuclei of nearby active galaxies using the Plateau de Bure Interferometer (led by F. Combes, Observatoire de Paris, France, and S. Garcia-Burillo,
Observatorio Astronomico Nacional, Madrid, Spain.)
Member of the international (German, French) CONICA/NAOS GTO team to study the Galactic center in the near-infrared using adaptive optics at the VLT (led by Reinhard Genzel, MPE, Garching, and Daniel Rouan, Meudon, France)
Member of the international team (US, European) carrying out multi-wavelength radio to infrared observations of the Galactic Center simultaneous to CHANGRA GTO observations (led by F.Baganoff, MIT, and M.Morris, UCLA)