“In learning, you will teach, and in teaching, you will learn.” ― Phil Collins
I highly regard the combination of cutting-edge research and the opportunity to transfer its results into the education and training of students. To improve my existing and acquire new teaching skills, in 2017-2018 I attended the “International Teaching Professional” (ITP) certificate program offered by the Potsdam Graduate School at the Universität Potsdam.
Current student supervision
2020 – present: Supervising PhD Thesis of Robert Kamlah (Comprehensive study of sunspots using high-resolution observations), Universität Potsdam
Past student supervision
2022: Supervised internship of Justus Hess ( Solar cycle variations and activity indices based on UV and EUV images of the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly onboard the Solar Dynamics Observatory), Freie Universität Berlin
March 2022: Supervised Master Thesis of Ozgun Adebali (Center to limb variation of strong chromospheric lines observed at Einstein Solar Telescope), Universität Potsdam
Summer semester 2019: Co-supervised Master Thesis of Robert Kamlah, Technische Hochschule Brandenburg with Prof. Dr. Michael Vollmer and Prof. Dr. Carsten Denker
2015 – 2016: Co-supervised Bachelor Thesis of Felicitas Böhm, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin with Prof. Dr. Carsten Denker
2014 – 2015: Co-supervised Master Thesis of Philipp Kummerow, Universität Potsdam with Prof. Dr. Carsten Denker. I supervised and helped him in adapting the LCT code, which I developed during my PhD for his thesis project.
June–August 2011: Supervised research project of Laurent Beauregard, an undergraduate student of McGill University, Montreal under the DAAD Research Internship in Science and Engineering (RISE) program
Teaching
Summer semester 2018: Lecture for the course Digital Image Processing, Universität Potsdam
Winter semester 2017/18: Seminar/lecture for the course Stars and Stellar Evolution, Universität Potsdam, substituted for Prof. Carsten Denker
Summer semester 2017: Seminars for the course Solar Terrestrial Relations, Universität Potsdam
Winter semester 2010/11: Teaching assistant for lecture and recitation Introduction to Astronomy and Astrophysics I, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
PhD opportunity
If you are interested in pursuing a PhD with me at AIP, then I would recommend you to look at the DAAD webpages. For Indian students, the deadline for DAAD doctoral scholarship application is around September/October. This deadline varies from country to country. Please contact me well in advance as then I can help you to submit a competitive application.