Rainer Mauersberger
Rainer Mauersberger (born 3 March 1957) is a German astronomer. His main field of interest is observational molecular spectroscopy of the interstellar matter in galactic and extragalactic star forming regions; millimeter and sub-millimeter astronomy. He is the scientific coordinator of the International Max Planck Research School (IMPRS) for Astronomy and Astrophysics, a collaboration between the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy in Bonn and the Universities of Bonn and Cologne. He teaches as a Privatdozent (lecturer) at Bonn University. He received his PhD from the University of Bonn using the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy Effelsberg 100-m Radio Telescope to measure ammonia throughout the galaxy. The galactic and extragalactic cold interstellar medium remained his main field of investigation while he was working at the in Arizona and in Granada (Spain), where he served as the station manager for nine years.
His Scientific awards and honors include the following:
- 1992: Bennigsen Foerder research prize of the Land Northrhine Westphalia
- 1987: Otto Hahn Medal and prize fellowship of the Max Planck Society
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- 1957 births
- 20th-century German astronomers
- Living people
- 21st-century German astronomers