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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

Über mich Personal Information:
  • Date of birth:                        16 January 1960
  • Place of birth:                      Gladbeck, Westfalia, Federal Republic of Germany
Education:
  • 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
Positions:
  • 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
ESA and NASA Space Missions:
  • 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
Publications Dr. Martin Pätzold, 23.5.2014
  1. Pätzold, M. and H. Rauer, Where Are the Massive Close-in Extrasolar Planets?, Astrophys. J.,568, L117-L120, doi:10.1086/339794, 2002
  2. 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
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
  10. 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.
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