Prof. Dr. Jochen Weller

A DECam Search for Explosive Optical Transients Associated with IceCube Neutrino, R. Morgan et al., PREPRINT, arXiv:1907.07193

Euclid preparation III. Galaxy cluster detection in the wide photometric survey, performance and algorithm selection, Euclid Collaboration, R. Adam et al., arXiv:1906.04707

Producing a BOSS-CMASS sample with DES imaging,  S. Lee et al., arXiv:1906.01136

Monte Carlo Control Loops for cosmic shear cosmology with DES Year, T. Kacprzak et al., arXiv:1906.01018

The bias of cosmic voids in the presence of massive neutrinos, Nico Schuster, Nico Hamaus, Alice Pisani, Carmelita Carbone, Christina D. Kreisch, Giorgia Pollina, Jochen Weller, arXiv:1905.00436

Career

05/2009 - Max-Planck-Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, Garching, Germany, Affiliate
10/2008 - Faculty of Physics, University Observatory, Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich, Germany, Professor
10/2008 - 11/2012 Excellence Cluster for Origin and Structure of the Universe, Garching, Germany, Junior Research Group Leader
10/2005 - 9/2008 Department of Physics and Astronomy, University College London, UK, Lecturer
9/2004 - 8/2005 Theoretical Astrophysics Group, Fermilab, USA, David N. Schramm Fellow
10/2003 - 9/2004 Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge, UK, Fixed Term Lecturer
10/2002 - 9/2003 Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge, UK, PDRA (Leverhulme Fellow)
10/2000 - 9/2002 Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics,
University of Cambridge, UK, PDRA

Committee Work

01/2019- Co-Coordinator Research Unit C / Member of the Board - Excellence Cluster Universe
10/2013- Dean of Studies Deparment of Physics, LMU
10/2013- Editor Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
2012-2018 Member of the Council for Science Communication of the Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft
2012- Council member "Sterne und Weltraum", Scientific Magazine
12/2009 - 12/2018 Co-Coordinator Research Area E - Excellence Cluster Universe

Education

1999 - 2000 University of California in Davis, USA, Visiting Postgraduate Student
1996 - 2000 Imperial College, London, UK, Doctor of Philosophy, 31 October 2000
Diploma of the Imperial College in Physics, 30 November 2000
Ph.D. program in Theoretical Physics/Cosmology, Thesis Advisor: Prof. A. Albrecht
Thesis Title: Observational consequences of modern cosmological theories
1990 - 1996 University of Karlsruhe, Germany, Diploma in Physics, 16 August 1996

Fellowships

2001 - 2005 Trapnell Fellowship at King's College, Cambridge (resigned 2004)
1997 - 2000 DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) PhD Fellowship
financed by the German Federal Ministry for Research and Technology

Affiliations

Core Team Member Planck Satellite HFI
Member of the Dark Energy Survey (DES)
Member of Euclid (co-coordinater Cluster Science Working Group)
(Member of the Euclid Science Coordination Group)
Member of PanStarrs1 Consortium
Member of HETDEX Consortium
Member of eROSITA Collaboration
Member of the German SKA Consortium