Short Curriculum Vitae of Prof. Dr. Andreas Erwin Eckart
- June 5, 1957
Born in Schwelm/Westfalen Federal Republic of Germany - April 1963 - July 1976
"Volksschule" and "Gymnasium" in Schwelm and Wuppertal, Germany - May 31, 1976
Abitur - October 1976
Student of physics, astronomy and mathematics at the "Westfälische Wilhelms Universität Münster" - July 1980 - July 1981
Work on diploma thesis at the "Max Planck Institut für Radioastonomie" in Bonn, Germany - September 27, 1981
Diploma in physics at the University of Münster - August 1981 - December 1983
Work on Ph.D. Thesis: "Untersuchung der Eigenschaften extragalaktischer Radioquellen" ("Investigation of Properties of Extragalactic Radio Sources") - September 1981 - March 1984
Scholarship holder of the "Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes" - April 17, 1984
"Promotion" at the University of Münster - June 7, 1984
"Otto Hahn Medaille" awarded by the Max Planck society - December 1983 - December 1984
Continuation of scientific research at the "Max Planck Institut für Radioastronomie" in Bonn - January 1985 - August 1986
Scholarship Holder of the "Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung" at Steward Observatory, University of Arizona in Tucson, USA - September 1986 - December 1999
Research staff scientist in the submillimeter-infrared group at the "Max Planck Institut für extraterrestrische Physik" in Garching, Germany - June 1999 "Habilitation" at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich, Germany
- since January 2000
Professor for Physics at the University of Cologne, Germany - since June 2001
Managing director of the "I. Physikalische Institut" at the University of Cologne, Germany - 12 February 2004
"Manne Siegbahn Medaille" awarded by the Manne Siegbahn Laboratory, Stockholm University, Sweden - since 2006
External member of the Max-Planck-Institute for Radioastronomy (MPIfR) and scientific member of the Max-Planck-Society (MPG)