* CV

Education

• 1965-1973 (1st-8th class) Polytechnische Oberschule (POS) 1 "Bruno H. Bürgel" Teltow
• 1973-1976 (9th-11th class) Erweiterte Spezialoberschule (ESOS) Kleinmachnow (specialization mathematics/physics), today: Weinberg-Gymnasium Kleinmachnow
• 1976-1977 (12th class, Abitur) ABF Halle/Saale
• 1977-1982 (physics/astronomy studies) University Kharkiv, USSR, today: Ukraine
• 1981-1982 (work on Diploma Thesis) Main Astronomical Observatory (MAO), Ukrainian Academy of Sciences, Kiev
• 1982 Diploma Thesis at University Kharkiv on "Measuring Proper Motions in the Vicinity of the Fundamental Star KSZ 873 from Photographic Plates Observed with Different Telescopes" (in Russian), supervisor: Dr. G.A. Ivanov, MAO Kiev
• 1990 Dr. rer.nat. (Dissertation A) with ''magna cum laude'' at Zentralinstitut für Astrophysik Potsdam (ZIAP; see history of AIP) on "Determination of Absolute Proper Motions for the Connection of the HIPPARCOS System with a Quasi-Inertial System and the Automation of Astrometric Measurements of Tautenburg Schmidt Plates" (in German), supervisor: Prof. Dr. K.-G. Steinert, Lohrmann Observatory, Technical University Dresden

Employment

• 1982-1991 Staff research astronomer at Zentralinstitut für Astrophysik Potsdam (ZIAP; see history of AIP)
• 1992-1996 Wissenschaftler-Integrations-Programm (WIP) project ''Galactic Kinematics'' at Potsdam University
• 1997-2002 DARA/DLR studies on space astrometry at AIP
• 2002-2024 Staff research astronomer at AIP

Languages

German, Russian, English

Membership of Professional Societies and Committees

• since 1991 member of Astronomische Gesellschaft (AG)
• since 1994 member of International Astronomical Union (IAU)
• 2003-2009 member of Organizing Committee IAU Commission 8 "Astrometry"
• 2005-2008 AIP representative in Sloan Digitized Sky Survey-II Collaboration Council