Annual Report 2011 Max Planck Institute for Astronomy

Heidelberg: The dual career services at MPIA supports
to help launch dual-career couples in furthering the career
of the partner. In cooperation with the Heidelberg
University, the University Hospital, the German Cancer
Research Center (DKFZ), the European Molecular
Biology Laboratory (EMBL), the SRH-Holding, the
College of Education, the city of Heidelberg and the
other Heidelberg MPIs, the dual career service provides
contacts with potential employers in the region
of Heidelberg and her support in the search for suitable
locations. The dual career network has established an
active job board with current vacancies and job applications.
• Child Care Working Group of the University
of Heidelberg: From this working group has resulted a
cooperation agreement and rights for several places in a
kindergarten were ascertained. • The MPIA is a member
of the Alliance for Family Heidelberg. This corporate
network is to exchange information and to ensure the
various services in the field “work and family” and is a
Awards
The Ernst Patzer Prize winners of this year are:
The postdoc Elisabetta Caffau, ZAH, for her publication
“An extremely primitive star in the Galactic halo”, the
IMPRS doctoral student Alexander Karim for his publication
“The star formation history of mass-selected
galaxies in the coSmoS field” and an den postdoc
Andreas Schruba for his publication “A molecular star
formation law in the atomic-gas-dominated regime in
nearby galaxies”.
Dimitrios A. Gouliermis received a fellowship “Com prehen
sive Characterization with HST of Stellar Popu lations
in Star-Forming Regions of the Large Magellanic
Cloud” (DLR Program 50 OR 908) and “The Stellar
Clus ters Population of the Andromeda Galaxy from the
Pan chro ma tic HST Survey” (DFG Program GO 1659/3-
1).
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major hub. • MPIA is also on the distribution list of the
Rhine-Neckar region and cooperates with the nationwide
active corporate network “Erfolgsfaktor Familie”.
The cross-linking of the MPIA with other scientific institutions,
public bodies and business enterprises guaranteed
the improvement and extension of the offers, the efficiency
of each network partner and thus combines the
energies in the implementation of important measures in
Heidelberg as an attractive location for science.
Working Council
The members of the working council met on 50 meetings
in the MPIA and with the other workings councils
of the Heidelberg MPIs on March 3 rd at the MPI for
Comparative Public Law and International Law, and
on October 17 th at the MPIA.
Jouni Kainulainen, Hua-Bai Li, Sarah Ragan, Amy Stutz
und Svitlana Zhukovska received a research grant from
the DFG Priority Program “Physics of the Interstellar
Medium”.
Maren Mohler was awarded with the first prize of the
Wilhelm and Else Heraeus Seminar for her poster
“Extrasolar Planets – Towards comparative planetology
beyond the Solar System” in Bad Honnef.
Karin Sandstrom received a Marie Curie International
Incoming Fellowship.
Dmitry A. Semenov received a research grant “The first 10
million years of the Solar System – a Planetary Materials
Approach” from the DFG (SPP 1385).