At Work

At Work

My work leads to the Institute of Geophysics and Meteorology of the University at Cologne. I graduated there as a geophysicist and am currently working on my PhD thesis in the field of space physics.

The object of my interest is Titan, the biggest moon of Saturn and second biggest of the solar system. I'm developing a computer simulation of the plasma interaction between Titan and the corotating plasma of Saturn. The plasma I'm talking of is a very thin ionized gas (I'm talking of 1 ion per cm) composed mainly of protons - not the thick plasma they deal with in search for fusion reactors.

Below you can see a picture of the main factors contributing to the plasma interaction:

Besides my scientific work I'm responsible for the maintainance of our UNIX workstations. This work takes a lot of my time but I like handling computers. It's always a pleasure to make them do what you want them to ;-)
At home I run Linux on my PC - can't think of anything better for it. And Linux is free ! See below my Linux Links .

Links concerning my work:

University at Cologne The homepage of the university
Institute of Geophysics and Meteorology The homepage of my institute - all about Geophysics
Titan Research about Titan at our institute - learn more about my work !
The Nine Planets A great homepage about our solar system (including Titan)
Cassini-Mission This year this grand mission to Saturn and its system starts

Links to Linux:

The Linux Info Sheet - Introduction to Linux
What you always wanted to know about Linux - here you will find it !
Collection of freeware, shareware and commercial application and utility programs and servers for Linux
Ever tried to run Linux on a laptop? Try this page !

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