Projects of affiliated persons per year
Personal profile
Research interests
Space instrumentation, Late Stages of Stellar Evolution, Astromineralogy, History of Astronomy (ADS-Service) (Google-Scholar)
Extensive outreach activities through talks, tours, TV, Radio, press interviews/articles, exhibitions
Curriculum vitae
Born: 1963, Dec. 5; 1988: Master in Astronomy; 1993: Doctor in Natural Sciences
1988-96: Research assistant in Vienna and Paris
1992: Working with mentally and physically handicapped in the course of the civil service
1997-99: APART-Fellowship in Stockholm and Vienna
2000: Habilitation in Observational Astrophysics
2001-2018: Associate Professor at Univ. Vienna
2019-: Full Prof. for Observational Astrphysics
2009-2011: Head of the Department of Astrophysics
2016-2020: Vice-Dean for Doctoral Studies
2020-2022: Dean for Doctoral Studies
2020-2022: Director of Vienna International School of Earth and Space Sciences
2022-2024: Vicedean of Faculty of Earth Sciences, Geography and Astronomy
Memberships
Founder of Austrian Society for Astronomy and Astrophysics; Member of EAS and IAU (currently organising committee of G3 Stellar Evolution)
1999-2001: Member of ESAs Astronomy Working Group, deputy-head in 2001
2015-: ESO Scientific Technical Committee; 2015-: Alma European Science Advisory Committee; 2015: ESO Observing Programmes Committee
2005-: Multiple-Vice Chair, panellist, observer for FP6, FP7, H2020 MSC and other EU actions
Referee for funding organisations: DFG, SNSF, NASA, IAC, KUL, FSU, CTH, …
Referee for journals: A&A, ApJ, MNRAS, Nature, …
Organisation of academic events
Vice-chair SOC, editor of proceedings at ASP, chair or member LOC for "Why galaxies care about AGB stars I (2006), II (2010),III (2014), and IV IAU S344
SOC: Pro Scientia Summer Academies 1997-2018
NOC, LOC: 30. General Assembly of the IAU 2018
Participation in several other SOCs and LOCs ...
Awards
1997: APART-Fellowship of the Austrian Academy of Sciences
Funding from bm:bwk, bm:vit, bm:WA; Erste; ESA:Prodex, ESA:SI, FP6: ERA-NET, fwf, ffg:ASAP, NÖ, ÖFG, ÖNB, ÖAW, RUAG, Wien Kultur (during the last 20 years more than 4M€)
Teaching
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Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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Instrument Application Software for the NewAthena WFI
Ottensamer, R. (Project Lead) & Kerschbaum, F. (Co-Lead)
1/03/24 → 28/02/27
Project: Research funding
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ARIEL FGS Instrument Application Software
Kerschbaum, F. (Project Lead), Ottensamer, R. (Co-Lead), Mösenlechner, G. (Co-Lead), Mecina, M. (Co-Lead), Luntzer, A. (Co-Lead), Loidolt, D. (Co-Lead) & Baumgartner, V. (Co-Lead)
1/09/23 → 31/12/29
Project: Research funding
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Herschel and the invisible end of the rainbow
Kerschbaum, F. (Project Lead)
1/01/18 → 28/02/19
Project: Research funding
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Multi-band infrared imaging reveals dusty spiral arcs around the binary B[e] star 3 Puppis
MATISSE Collaboration, 15 Dec 2025, In: Astronomy and Astrophysics. 704, 19 p., A175.Publications: Contribution to journal › Article › Peer Reviewed
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The KELT-7b atmospheric thermal-inversion conundrum revisited with CHEOPS, TESS, and additional data
Garai, Z., Krenn, A., Cubillos, P. E., Bruno, G., Smith, A. M. S., Wilson, T. G., Brandeker, A., Günther, M. N., Heitzmann, A., Carone, L., Singh, V., Lendl, M., Demangeon, O. D. S., Alibert, Y., Alonso, R., Asquier, J., Bárczy, T., Barrado, D., Barros, S. C. C. & Baumjohann, W. & 67 others, , 1 Aug 2025, In: Astronomy and Astrophysics. 700, 26 p., A5.Publications: Contribution to journal › Article › Peer Reviewed
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The PLATO mission
Rauer, H., Aerts, C., Cabrera, J., Deleuil, M., Erikson, A., Gizon, L., Goupil, M., Heras, A., Walloschek, T., Lorenzo-Alvarez, J., Marliani, F., Martin-Garcia, C., Mas-Hesse, J. M., O’Rourke, L., Osborn, H., Pagano, I., Piotto, G., Pollacco, D., Ragazzoni, R. & Ramsay, G. & 826 others, , Jun 2025, In: Experimental Astronomy. 59, 3, 111 p., 26.Publications: Contribution to journal › Article › Peer Reviewed
Open Access
Prizes
Activities
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Mitglied des Forschungszentrums "Religion and Transformation "
Kerschbaum, F. (Consultant)
2026 → …Activity: Consultancy › Research
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Joint Discussion: AGB Research in 2040+
Kerschbaum, F. (Presenter)
20 Nov 2025Activity: Academic events › Organisation of ...
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Gaia telescope – data & science
Ansari, S. (Speaker) & Kerschbaum, F. (Contributor)
20 Nov 2025Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science