Markus Pössel
Director, OAE
Main areas of work
Contact person for:
- Press enquiries
- exhibitions and models
- organisational matters
- enquiries about cooperation with the HdA and about promotion/sponsoring of HdA projects
Curriculum Vitae
Studied physics at University of Hamburg (1992-2003); since 1997 at the MaxPlanck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert EinsteinInstitute) in Potsdam: PhD thesis on quantum gravity (doctorate 2003)
and activities in scientific public relations, including the web
portal "Einstein Online" on special and general relativity
and co-curatorship of the section "World Views of Modern
Physics" for the exhibition "Albert Einstein: Engineer ofthe Universe" in Berlin 2005. Hanno and Ruth Roelin Prize for Science Communication in 2007. In 2007–2008, Senior Science Advisor
at the World Science Festival, New York. Managing Scientist of Haus
der Astronomie since 2009, Senior Outreach Scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy since 2010. National Outreach Contact
of the International Astronomical Union (IAU) for Germany 2013–2020.
Director of the IAU Office of Astronomy for Education since 2020.
Selected Publications:
Selected Publications:
- Pössel, M. 2020: Cosmic event horizons and the light-speed limit for relative radial motion in Open J. Astrophys. 3, 8. doi: 10.21105/astro.1912.11677 arXiv:1912.11677 [gr-qc]
- Pössel, M. 2020: The Shapiro time delay and the equivalence principle arXiv:2001.00229 [gr-qc]
- Pössel, M. 2019: A Beginner's Guide to Working with Astronomical Data in Open J. Astrophys. 3, 2. doi: 10.21105/astro.1905.13189 arXiv:1905.13189 [astro-ph.IM]
- Pössel, M. 2019: Energy conservation in explicit solutions as a simple illustration of Noether's theorem in Am. J. Phys. 87, 141. doi: 10.1119/1.5086003 arXiv:1812.10557 [physics.class-ph]
- Pössel, M. 2019: Teaching cosmology with special relativity: Piecewise inertial frames as a model for cosmic expansion in Eur. J. Phys. 40(2), 025602. doi: 10.1088/1361-6404/aaf2f7 arXiv:1811.09524 [gr-qc]