PD Dr. Martin Pätzold
Position:
Direktor der Abteilung Planetenforschung des Rheinischen Instituts für Umweltforschung (RIU-PF)
Principal Investigator (PI) der Radio Science Experimente auf Mars Express (MaRS), Rosetta (RSI) und Co-PI des Radio Science Experimentes VeRa auf Venus Express.
Tel.: +49 221 277 81 81-0
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Personal Information:- Date of birth: 16 January 1960
- Place of birth: Gladbeck, Westfalia, Federal Republic of Germany
- November 1998 Habilitation and Venia Legendi in Geophysics, Universität zu Köln, Cologne, Germany Thesis: “Radiosondierung solarer und kometarer Atmosphären mit interplanetaren Raumsonden (Radiosounding of cometary and solar atmospheres using interplanetary spacecraft)”
- June 1990 Ph.D. (Dr. rer.nat.) in Astronomy, 1990, Radioastronomisches Institut, Universität Bonn, Bonn, Federal Republic of Germany Thesis: “The Dynamics of the Giotto Spacecraft in the Inner Dust Coma of Comet P/Halley as Determined From the Giotto Radio-Science Experiment”
- May 1986 Diploma in Physics, 1986, Radioastronomisches Institut, Universität Bonn, Bonn, Federal Republic of Germany Thesis: “Das mittlere koronale Magnetfeld: Eine Analyse mit Helios Faraday Rotations Daten (The Mean Coronal Magnetic Field: An Analysis using Helios Faraday Rotation Data).”
- Oct. 1979 – June 1990 study of Physics and Astronomy, Oct 1979 – June 1990, Universität Bonn, Bonn, Federal Republic of Germany
- since May 2010 Vice-Director of the Rheinische Institut für Umweltforschung an der Universität zu Köln e.V., Cologne, Germany
- Since April 2007 Director of the Department Planetary Research at the Rheinisches Institut für Umweltforschung at the University Cologne, Cologne, Germany
- November 2008 position 3 on the list of candidates for the W3 professorship in Spacecraft Engineering at the Universität der Bundeswehr München (UniBw Munich)
- October 2003 – September 2005 acting C4 professor of Geophysics at the Institut für Geophysik und Meteorologie, Universität zu Köln
- December 2002 position 2 on the list of candidates for the C3 professorship in Geophysics at the TU Braunschweig
- August 2001 – September 2001: Visiting Scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Space Science Section, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, USA
- April 1999 – March 2007 Hochschuldozent (University Lecturer), Institut für Geophysik und Meteorologie, Universität zu Köln, Köln, Germany Head of the Radio Science Group
- July 1997 – September 1997: Visiting Assistant Professor, Space Telecommunications and Radio Science Laboratory (STARLab), Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA
- April 1997 – June 1997: Visiting Scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Space Science Section, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, USA
- Jan. 1993 – March 1999 Senior Research Scientist and “Wissenschaftlicher Assistent” (Assistant Professor), Institut für Geophysik und Meteorologie, Universität zu Köln (Cologne University), Köln, Germany Head of the Radio Science and Georadar Group
- 1991 – 1992 Research Associate, Institut für Hochfrequenztechnik (Institute for High Frequency Technology), Deutsche Forschungsanstalt für Luft und Raumfahrt (DLR), (German Research Establishment for Air and Spaceflight), Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany
- July 1990 – Dec. 1990: Research Associate, Institut für Hoch- und Höchstfrequenztechnik, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Bochum, Germany position was located at the Radioastronomisches Institut Universität Bonn, Bonn, Germany
- 1987 – June 1990: Research Associate, Radioastronomisches Institut, Universität Bonn, Bonn, Federal Republic of Germany
- Since 2014 Instrument Co-I on the radio science experiment REX for NASA´s New Horizons mission to Pluto
- Since 2013 Co-I on the 3GM experiment for the ESA Jupiter JUICE mission
- Since 2010 Instrument Lead on the radio science experiment for the NASA Discovery proposal “Lucy” led by C. Olkin, SwRI, CO, USA
- Since 2009 Instrument contact for the ESA mission studies “EJSM Laplace” and “Marco Polo”
- 2008 Co-I on the PRARE-L experiment for the national Moon orbiter LEO since 2007 Corot operations for the search of extrasolar planets
- 2006-2008 Co-I on the radio science experiment for the Discovery proposal “The Great Escape” led by J. Burch
- 2005-2006 member of the ESA study team: Don Quijote
- Since 2005 mission and experiment operations in orbit with Venus Express
- Since 2004 mission and experiment operations in orbit with Mars Express and Rosetta
- 2002 member of the ESA study teams:
- ISHTAR, asteroid orbiter (study lead Univ. Paris and Astrium)
- SIMONE, asteroid flybys (study lead Open University and Qinetiq)
- APIES, satellite swarm to the asteroid belt (study lead Univ. Paris and Astrium)
- Since May 2001 Co-PI of the radio science experiment VeRa of the Venus Express proposal study.
- Since January 2001 COROT Co-Investigator in cooperation with the German Lead-Co-I Dr. Heike Rauer (DLR Berlin-Adlershof): “Gravity and MHD-interactions of the central star and its planets (stellar-planetary relationship)”; COROT is a french space telescope for the search for extrasolar planets; launch was in December 2006
- Since January 2001 Collaborator of the radio science experiment REX on the Pluto-Kuiper Belt Proposal “New Horizon” (PI A.S. Stern, SwRI Boulder).
- 2000 Science Team Member of the F-Mission study MASTER, proposal study presented to ESA
- 2000 Co-Investigator “Pluto Kuiper Express Radio Science”, Proposal submitted to NASA (proposal PI G.L. Tyler, Stanford University)
- since Feb. 1998 Principal Investigator “Mars Express Orbiter Radio Science”, Mars Express Mission, selected by ESA Co-Investigator “High Resolution Stereo Camera HRSC” (PI G. Neukum, DLR Berlin) on Mars Express Co-Investigator “Netlander NEIGE” (PI J.-P. Barriot, CNES Toulouse)
- 1996-2004 Team Member “Radio Science Experiment on Stardust” (Mission Co-I J.D. Anderson, JPL)
- since Feb. 1996 Principal Investigator “Rosetta Radio Science Investigations (RSI)”, International Rosetta Mission; selected by ESA
- 1993 – 1996 Team Member “Mars-96 High Resolution Stereo Camera-Surface Atmosphere interaction (HRSC-SAI)”; appointment terminated due to loss of spacecraft
- since 1992 Team Member of the “Galileo Radio Propagation Experiment-Solar Corona Experiment”, appointed by NASA
- 1992 Co-Investigator “Giotto Radio Science Experiment (GRE)” at the P/Grigg-Skjellerup Flyby; appointed by ESA
- since 1991 Co-Investigator “Ulysses Solar Corona Experiment (SCE)”; appointed by ESA
- Pätzold, M. and H. Rauer, Where Are the Massive Close-in Extrasolar Planets?, Astrophys. J.,568, L117-L120, doi:10.1086/339794, 2002
- Pätzold, M., L. Carone and H. Rauer, Tidal interactions of close-in extrasolar planets: The OGLE cases, Astron. & Astrophys., 427, 1075-1080, doi:10.1051/0004-6361:20040258, 2004
- Pätzold, M.; Tellmann, S.; Häusler, B.; Hinson, D.; Schaa, R.; Tyler, G. L., A Sporadic Third Layer in the Ionosphere of Mars, Science, Volume 310, Issue 5749, pp. 837-839, 2005.
- Pätzold, M., B. Häusler, M.K. Bird, S. Tellmann, R. Mattei, S.W. Asmar, V. Dehant, W. Eidel, T. Imamura, R.A. Simpson, G.L. Tyler, The structure of Venus middle atmosphere and ionosphere, Nature 450, 657, 2007.
- Pätzold, M., S. Tellmann, B. Häusler, M.K. Bird, G.L. Tyler, A.A. Christou and P. Withers, A sporadic layer in the Venus lower ionosphere of meteoric origin, Geophys. Res. Vol. 35, doi: 10.1029/2008GL035875, 2008.
- Pätzold, M., T.P. Andert, B. Häusler, S. Tellmann, J.D. Anderson, S.W. Asmar, J.-P. Barriot, and M.K. Bird, Pre-Flyby estimates on the precision of the mass determination of Asteriod (21) Lutetia from Rosetta radio tracking, Astron. Astrophys. 518, L156, 2010.
- Pätzold, M., T.P. Andert, S.W. Asmar, J.D. Anderson, J.-P. Barriot, M.K. Bird, B. Häusler, M. Hahn, S. Tellmann, H. Sierks, P. Lamy, B. Weiss, Asteroid (21) Lutetia – low mass, high density, Science 334, 491, 2011.
- Pätzold, M., M. Hahn, S. Tellmann, B. Häusler, M.K. Bird, G.L. Tyler, S.W. Asmar and B.T. Tsurutani, Coronal Density Structures and CMEs: Superior Solar Conjunctions of Mars Express, Venus Express and Rosetta: 2004, 2006, 2008, Solar Phys. 279, 127-152, 2012.
- Pätzold, M., und 50 Co-Autoren, Transiting exoplanets from the CoRoT space mission. XXIII. CoRoT-21b: a doomed hot-Jupiter around a faint subgiant star, Astron. Astrophys. 545, A6, 2012.
- Pätzold, M., T.P. Andert, G.L. Tyler, S.W. Asmar, B. Häusler, S. Tellmann, Phobos mass determination from the very close flby of Mars Express in 2010, Icarus 229, 92-98, 2014.