Prof. Dr. Shude Mao

Profil

Derzeitige StellungProfessor W-3 und Äquivalente
FachgebietAstrophysik
KeywordsMilky Way, galxy formation, lensing

Aktuelle Kontaktadresse

LandChina, VR
OrtBeijing
Universität/InstitutionTsinghua University
Institut/AbteilungDepartment of Astronomy

Gastgeber*innen während der Förderung

Prof. Dr. Simon D.M. WhiteMax-Planck-Institut für Astrophysik, Garching
Beginn der ersten Förderung01.04.2007

Programm(e)

2007Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel-Forschungspreis-Programm

Projektbeschreibung der*des Nominierenden

Professor Shude Mao from the University of Manchester, United Kingdom. Professor Mao is a leading astrophysicist who is well known internationally for his innovative studies of gravitational lensing by stars and galaxies. He was the first to show how the detailed internal structure of galaxies can be inferred from the way their gravity magnifies the images of background quasars. In Germany he intends to test his techniques on virtual images produced from computer simulations of the dark matter distribution around galaxies.