CURRICULUM VITAE

Dr. Markus Kissler-Patig

SUMMARY

Name: Patig, born as KisslerFirst name: MarkusCurrent Position: Senior Faculty Member (Full Astronomer) at the European Southern

ObservatoryCurrent Responsibilities: Project Scientist for the European Extremely Large Telescope; Chair

of the ESO Faculty

Education: PhD: Feb.1997 (Bonn, ESO), Postdocs: 1997/1998 at University ofCalifornia Observatories; 1999/2000 at the European Southern Ob-servatory; Faculty since March 2000 at ESO (Assistant 2000-2002,Associate 2003-2004; Full Astronomer since August 2004).

Academic Activities: Teaching at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich. Supervisedsix PhD studies and numerous Master students. Currently supervisingone PhD students and two Master students. Held key responsibility inthe Stundentship program of ESO Garching (incl. IMPRS) over sevenyears.

Publications: Author of >70 refereed papers (about half as 1st or 2nd author, >2400citations, H-factor of 29), editor of 3 conference proceedings, over 110contributions to proceedings (12 SPIE papers).

Observing Time: PI/Co-I of over 100 successful observing proposals on major facilities(VLT, Keck, HST); e.g. successful proposals as PI in the last HSTCycle and last ESO period, successful without interruption as PI/Co-Ion ESO telescopes since 20 semesters.

Awards: Ludwig Biermann-Preis der Astronomischen Gesellschaft (1999); DFGGrants; NSF Grants (∼360.000 US$); RTN Euro3D (∼1,3 MillionEuros 2004+); co-PI of the Excellence Cluster ‘Origin and Structure ofthe Universe’ (∼35 million Euros, 2006+); member of the programmeoffice preparing the E-ELT construction proposal (∼950 million Euros,2010+).

1 PERSONAL

Name: Patig, born as KisslerFirst name: MarkusPublishing as: Markus Kissler-PatigPhone/Email: +49-89-32006244 / mkissler@eso.orgDate of birth: August 21st, 1970Place of Birth: Chene-Bougeries / Geneva / SwitzerlandCitizenship: GermanFamily status: Married to Annegret Patig (born April 15th, 1966; Editorial Journalist/SWR)Children: Emily (born July 6th, 1996), Alice Carolin (born May 29th, 1998)

Mia Anna (born September 6th, 2002), Jona Benjamin (born August 6th, 2004)

Languages: Native French and German speaker,fluent in English (current working language), knowledge of Spanish and Russian

Interests: Sports (rock climbing instructor, swimming, football, tennis), Cycling toursStrategy board games, Drawing/Sketching (Cartoons, BD)

2 EDUCATION

Pre-University1980 – 1988: College et Lycee International de Ferney–Voltaire (France)

• French Baccalaureat (scientific branch) and the German Allgemeine Hochschulreife

UndergraduateOctober 88 – October 93: Diplom/Master in Physics at the University of Bonn

Diplom/Master in Physics, Master Thesis in Astronomy (both ”sehr gut”, grade A)

• CERN summer school for high energy physics, July-September 1990; Research assistant atthe Sternwarte Bonn from October 1991 to October 1992.

Graduate StudiesSeptember 93 – March 94: PhD Student at the Sternwarte Bonnwith Dr.T.Richtler, PhD on “Globular Cluster Systems, Clues to Galaxy Formation and Evolution”.

• Canary Islands Winter School on “The Formation of Galaxies”, December 1993.

March 94 – March 96: Studentship at the European Southern Observatory, Garchingwith Dr.G.Meylan

• Member of the NTT Telescope team lead by Dr.D.Baade, later Dr.J.Spyromilio; Introducingastronomer to remote control observations with the NTT Telescope, under supervision ofDr.A.Zijlstra from July 1994 to March 1996.

March 96 – February 97: PhD Student at the Sternwarte Bonnin the frame of the DFG Graduierten Kolleg “The Magellanic Clouds and other dwarf galaxies”

• Doctor Rer.Nat. Summa cum Laude (PhD with distinction), February 1997.

3 EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

Post–doctoral positionsMarch 97 – October 98: Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of California Obser-vatories/Lick observatoryMentor: Prof.J.P.Brodie

• Awarded a Feodor–Lynen Stipendium from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation for theyear 1998 (salary and research grant).

• Co-author on National Science Foundation (NSF) grant rewarded with 360.000 US$.

November 98 – February 00: Fellowship at the European Southern ObservatoryMentor: Prof.A.Renzini

• Winner of the 1999 Ludwig-Biermann-Preis of the Astronomische Gesellschaft (German As-tronomical Society), rewarding a most promising young German astronomer each year.

Faculty member at ESOMarch 00 – December 02: Assistant Astronomer at the European Southern Observatory

• Instrument Scientist in the Optical Instrumentation Department (Mar 00 – Dec 03), scientificresponsible for VIMOS (Visual wide-field imager and multi-object spectrograph) and SINFONI(near-infrared integral-field spectrograph supported by an adaptive optics system)

• Member of the Fellow and Student Selection Committee for ESO Garching (FSSC) from2000 to 2007. Chair of the FSSC (2002–2006).

• ESO Team Leader for the Euro3D Research Training Network (RTN), aiming at promoting3D spectroscopy in Europe (2002–2006).

January 03 – August 04: Associate Astronomer at the European Southern Observatory

• Instrument Scientist in the Infrared Instrumentation and Detectors Group (Jan 04 – Jan08), scientific responsible for SINFONI, HAWK-I (wide-field NIR imager) and KMOS (NIRmulti-object spectrograph)

• Coordinator for ESO and member of the executive committee of the International Max-Planck Research School (IMPRS) in Astronomy and Astrophysics (Graduate School of thefour Munich Astronomy Institutions: ESO, MPA, MPE and LMU Observatory) 2003–2008.

• Adaptive Optics Group, Head Scientific Advisor (2002 – 2003).

August 04 – present: Full Astronomer at the European Southern Observatory

• Teaching at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich since 2005

• Chair of the ESO Astronomer Faculty, since January 2007. Member of the ESO Science Per-sonnel Committee (Evaluating the performance of Faculty members for renewal and tenure)

• Member of the E-ELT Science Working Group (2006–2008)

• Project Scientist for the European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT), since February 2008;Head of the E-ELT Science Office (2 Staff, 7 Post-docs, 2 Students)

• Reviewer for Instrument Design Concepts for the Thirty Meter Telescope

4 PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Teaching/EducationalEducational activities:

• Teaching at the LMU since 2005 (Astronomical Praktikum, Stellar Evolution, Main Seminar“Tools of Modern Astrophysics”)

• Teaching replacements for Prof.J.P.Brodie in the Introductory Astronomy Class for under-graduates at the University of California, Santa Cruz, in 1997/1998.

• Co-supervision of the observational Praktika of the Sternwarte Bonn in 1996 and 1997.

Outreach activities:

• Numerous lectures/interventions at Volkssternwarten, schools and kindergarten for basic as-tronomy courses and astronomy/science promotion.

• Guide for the astronomy/space section at the Deutsches Museum (Science Center) in Munich,also regularly giving popular astronomy talks at the Deutsches Museum.

• Outreach activities in the frame of the IYA 2009 (‘Street worker’ in the Munich city centreduring the 100h of astronomy event; Anchorman for the 24h webcast “Around the World in80 Telescopes”). Similar activities in previous years.

Institutional activities:

• Initiator and organizer (2001-2007) of the monthly meetings of the Instrumentation Division.

• Initiator and organizer (2001/2002) of the ESO Monthly “Wine & Cheese” meetings.

• Organizer (1998-2001) of the ESO Monday Journal Club.

External educational activities:

• Rock Climbing instructor (1/2 day per week) since 2008

• Swimming coach and teacher (∼ 10h/week) from 1989 until 1994

Student Supervision / Post-doc Mentoring

• Current supervision of the PhD students (for which I obtained grants through the ExcellenceCluster):

– Behrang Jalali (Excellence Cluster Universe), started in April 2008

• Past supervision of the PhD students (for which I obtained grants through the DFG, theIMPRS and ESO):

– Daniella Villegas (ESO student from the Universidad Catolica, Chile), finished in Octo-ber 2008 (currently Post-doc in the E-ELT Science Office, ESO)

– Marcelo Mora (International Max-Planck Research School, IMPRS), finished October2008 (currently Post-doc at the Universidad de Valparaiso, Chile)

– Nathan Bastian (ESO student from Sterrewacht Utrecht), finished in April 2005 (cur-rently on a advanced STFC Fellowship in Cambridge, UK).

– Maren Hempel (International Max-Planck Research School, IMPRS), finished in October2004 (currently on a post-doctoral position at the Universidad de Conception, Chile)

– Thomas H.Puzia (Sternwarte Munchen, Germany), finished in October 2003 (currentlyon a post-doctoral Plaskett fellowship at the HIA, Canada)

– (partial supervision) Linda L.Schroder (UC Santa Cruz, USA), finished in July 2002

– (partial supervision) Sandra Chapelon (LAS, Marseille, France), finished in July 2001

• Mentor for ESO fellows: Nadine Neumeyer (since 2008), Mark Gieles (since 2008)

• Supervised Master students at ESO since 2000: Mariya Luybenova (Sofia, Bulgaria), StefanGeier (LMU), Tania Penuela (MPI Lindau), Nora Lutzendorf (LMU). Several partial super-visions of Master thesis and pre-diploma students since 1999, starting at the SternwarteBonn

Instrumentation Activities

• Instrument scientist (from conceptual design to commissioning/start of operations, e.g. typi-cally over 5 years) for VIMOS (a visual wide-field imager and multi-object spectrograph; joined2000, in operations since April 2003), SINFONI (adaptive optics supported NIR integral-fieldspectrograph; in operation since April 2005), HAWK-I (wide-field NIR imager; in operationsince April 2008), and KMOS (NIR multi-object spectrograph; until Final Design Review2008).

• Over 250 nights/days of interventions at the Paranal Observatory for VIMOS, SINFONI andHAWK-I re-integration, commissioning, and up-grades.

• Coordinating scientist between the Adaptive Optics and Laser Guide Star projects at ESOfrom October 2000 until December 2002.

• Member of the board that defined the Science Cases for Multi-Conjugate Adaptive Optics forGEMINI (with retreat held at the Center for Adaptive Optics, UC Santa Cruz in Oct 2001).

• Member of the Euro3D Research Training Network (RTN, financed by the EU); Author ofabout 1/3 of the successful RTN proposal (∼ 1.3 Million Euros). Work-package coordinatorof the Euro3D data format and software standards; lead author of the Euro3D data formatdefinition.

• Invited reviewer for the conceptual design studies of instruments for the Thirty Meter Tele-scope (TMT) in 2007.

Telescope Construction, Operations and Support

• Project Scientist for the European Extremely Large Telescope, since Feb 2008

• Six months transfer as member of the Science Operations Group at the Paranal Observatory(from Jan 03 until Jul 03), during the start-up of VIMOS. About 80 nights/days of regularoperations support.

• Member of the Science Verification teams (1999, 2000, 2003, 2004, 2007) for the ISAAC,FORS1, FORS2, VIMOS, SINFONI and HAWK-I instruments on the VLT; defining/conductingscientific programs of broad public interest with public data release.

• Introducing astronomer to remote control observations and member of the 3.5m NTT Tele-scope Team from July 1994 to March 1996.

5 SCIENTIFIC ACTIVITIES

Publication Record / Refereeing Activities

Publication record:See publication list: >70 refereed publications, over half as first or second author in a variety offields from star cluster formation/complexes, star cluster systems and galaxy formation & evolution,galaxy dynamics, stellar population models and calibration

Over 2400 citations – Top cited articles with >100 citations: Eisenhauer et al. 2005, ApJ 628,246, and Gebhardt & Kissler-Patig 1999, AJ 118, 1526; top first author article with 121 citations:Kissler-Patig et al. 1998, AJ 115, 105.

H-index of 29. Also >110 non-refereed contributions – editor of three conference proceedings(one as single editor) – one invited review article – 12 SPIE contributions.

Regular Refereeing activities for the Journals: Astronomy & Astrophysics, MNRAS, AstronomicalJournal, Astrophysical Journal and Astronomische Nachrichten.

Observing Programs

• Awarded observing time at major observatories as Principle Investigator and Co-Investigatoron a regular basis since over 10 years: first successful proposals in 1993 and 1995; successfulwithout interruption on ESO telescopes since 20 periods.

Mostly using the ESO VLT : 45 successful ESO proposals (of which > 35 for the VLT withthe instruments FORS1/2, VIMOS, SINFONI, NACO, UVES, GIRAFFE, FLAMES, ISAAC,VISIR and HAWK-I).

Recent successful proposals as Principal Investigator:- NACO/VLT (078.B-0641, Mar 2007): Intermediate-mass Black Holes in the Center ofGlobular Clusters (Kissler-Patig & Gebhardt)- VIMOS/VLT (077.B-0184, Apr-Oct 2006): The Products of Star Formation in ViolentMerger Events (Kissler-Patig, Bastian, Emsellem, Larsen, Maraston, Mora)- ACS/HST (10550, Sep 2005-Sep 2006): The Nature of LSB galaxies revealed by theirGlobular Clusters (Kissler-Patig, Jordan, Goudfrooij, Zwaan)

Recent successful proposals as Co-Investigator:- X-SHOOTER/VLT (084.D-1061, Oct-Nov 2009): Panchromatic High-Resolution Spec-troscopy of Local Group Star Clusters (Puzia, Kissler-Patig, Kuntschner, Lyubenova)- FLAMES/VLT (083.D-04444, June 2009): Closing in on Intermediate Mass Black Holes:Central kinematics for omega Centauri and NGC 6388 (Noyola, Kissler-Patig, de Zeeuw,Gebhardt, Jalali)- SINFONI/VLT (179.A-0283, 2007-2009 large prg): Following the mass assembly of galaxiesat the key epoch 1.0<z<1.8 from a complete sample observed with SINFONI (Contini et al.)- WFPC2/HST (10818 - 2009): Very Young Globular Clusters in M31? (Cohen et al.)- WFC3/HST (10785/11554 - 2009): Luminosity Profiles of Extremely Massive Clusters inNGC 7252 (Bastian, Kissler-Patig, Larsen, Schweizer)

• Broad observational experience (observing, data reduction, analysis) in optical/infrared pho-tometry and low- to high-resolution (integral field) spectroscopy. Conducted observations atthe 10m Keck (LRIS, NRIC), 8m VLT (FORS, VIMOS, ISAAC, SINFONI, UVES, HAWK-I),3.5m NTT (EMMI, SOFI), 3.5m Calar Alto (PF Camera, MAGIC), 3m Lick Observatory(LRIC), 100” Las Campanas, 2.5m NOT/La Palma, 2.2m Pic du Midi, 0.9m CTIO.

Peer Reviews

Peer reviewing grant proposals for PPARC (UK), FONDECYT (Chile), NSERC (Canada).

Reviewing observing proposals for PPARC (UK) [WHT, AAT].

Conferences / Colloquia

• Gave over 50 invited/conference talks in the past 10 years; as well as numerous posterpresentations

• Co-organizer of the ESO/ESA workshop “JWST and ELT Synergies” in April 2010

• Co-organizer of the ESO workshop “ALMA and ELTs: A Deeper, Finer View of the Universe”in March 2009

• Organizer of the ESO workshop: “12 Questions on Star and Massive Star Cluster Formation”,July 2007

• Co-organizer of the ESO/EC workshop: “Science Perspectives for 3D Spectroscopy”, October2005

• Organizer of the ESO workshop “Globular Cluster Systems”, in August 2002

• Co-organized the topical session: From ancient globular clusters to young star clusters, atthe meeting of the AAS, Chicago, June 1999

• Served in over 15 Scientific Organising Committees

Research Collaborations

• Current main collaborations with:- Prof.K.Gebhardt (U.Texas) and H.Baumgardt (Bonn), on intermediate mass black holeresearch- a group around S.S.Larsen (U.Utrecht), N.Bastian (IoA Cambridge) and F.Schweizer (Carnegie),investigating young star cluster formation,- a group around T.H.Puzia (HIA), M.Hilker, H.Kuntschner (ESO) and P.Goudfrooij (STScI),analysing star cluster abundances- a group around J.Cohen, M.Belazzini and many others studying young star clusters in M31,- a group around T.Contini and many others determining the mass assembly of galaxies atredshifts >1

• Current involvement in Large programs/projects:- Co-I in the ESO Large Program: SINFONI follow-up of the VVDS (VIRMOS very deepsurvey) with the goal to obtain dynamics of galaxies in the redshift range 1.5-3.5.- Involved in the Chilean large effort FOCUS, dedicated to the study of the Fornax Galaxycluster (star clusters, galaxy populations and dynamics, intra-cluster medium) with observa-tions across southern observatories,