Christoph Pfrommer

Current Position

since Apr 2017: Head of the Cosmology and High-Energy Astrophysics section at the Leibniz-Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP) and University Professor at the University of Potsdam.

Employment

2016 to 2017: ERC Group Leader of the group High-Energy Astrophysics and Cosmology
at the Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies (HITS), Germany.

2010 to 2016: Senior Research Associate at the Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies (HITS), Germany

2008 to 2010: Senior Research Associate at the Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics, Toronto, Canada

2005 to 2008: Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics, Toronto, Canada

Visiting Fellowships

Jul 2021: Invited Participant of the program High-Energy Plasma Phenomena in Astrophysics at MIAPP - Munich Institute for Astro- and Particle Physics, Munich, GER

Aug to Sep 2019: Invited Participant of the program Multiscale Phenomena in Plasma Astrophysics at Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, Santa Barbara, USA

Apr to May 2014: Invited Participant of the program Gravitys Loyal Opposition: The Physics of Star Formation Feedback at Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, Santa Barbara, USA

Feb to Apr 2011: Invited Participant of the program Galaxy Clusters: the Crossroads of Astrophysics and Cosmology at Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, Santa Barbara, USA

Aug to Sep 2009: Invited Participant of the program Particle Acceleration in Astrophysical Plasmas at Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, Santa Barbara, USA

Nov 2007: Visiting Fellow at Stanford University and Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, USA

Oct 2007: Visiting Fellow at the Max-Planck-Institut für Astrophysik, Garching, GER

Education

Privatdozent (Venia Legendi in Physics)
Jan 2014, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Germany,
Thesis: “Interfacing High-Energy Astrophysics and Cosmological Structure Formation”

Dr. rer. nat.
Dec 2005, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany,
Thesis: “On the role of cosmic rays in clusters of galaxies”
Advisors: T. A. Enßlin, M. Bartelmann, S. D. M. White, Max-Planck-Institut für Astrophysik, Garching, Germany

Diploma in Physics (comparable to M.Sc.)
Jul 2002, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Germany
Thesis: “ Cosmological weak lensing of the cosmic microwave background by large scale structures”
Advisors: M. Bartelmann, S. D. M. White, Max-Planck-Institut für Astrophysik, Garching, Germany

Special Graduate Student in Physics
1999 - 2000, at Harvard University,
Graduate School of Arts and Science, Cambridge, MA, USA

Pre-Diploma in Physics (comparable to B.Sc.)
Jul 1999, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Germany

Awards

2022 - 2027: European Research Counsil (ERC) Advanced Grant 2020: PICOGAL

2016 - 2021: European Research Counsil (ERC) Consolidator Grant 2014: CRAGSMAN

2010: 5yr Kavli Fellowship (declined) at the Kavli Institute for Cosmology, Cambridge, UK

2005 - 2008: Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics, Toronto, Canada