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• Institut
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• Geo- und Kosmochemie
• Mitarbeiter
• Forschung
• Aktuelle Projekte
• Planetare Kollisionen
• Destiny+ (english)
• DFG SPP 1385 (english)
• Einrichtungen
• HIP IMS 1280-HR (Englisch)
• Publikationen
• Öffentlichkeitsarbeit
• Studium
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• Zentrale Einrichtungen

Geo- und Kosmochemie

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PD Dr. Frank Postberg Dipl.-Phys. Institut für Geowissenschaften Im Neuenheimer Feld 236 (Room 303) 69120 Heidelberg Germany Tel: +49 6221 548209 e-Mail Homepage

Institut für Raumfahrtsysteme Pfaffenwaldring 29 70569 Stuttgart Germany Tel: +49 176 21213891 e-Mail

 

 

• Education and employment

  1992-1998	Study of "Chemical Engineering", University of Applied Science, Darmstadt, Degree: graduate engineer ("Diplom Ingenieur")
  1998-2004	Study of physics, Darmstadt University, Degree: Diplom Physicist
  2005-2007	PhD Physics, Heidelberg University (carried out at MPI für Kernphysik)
  1998-2006	Environmental chemist as freelancer (part time) at the "chemlab GmbH" for environmental analytics in Bensheim
  2006-2007	Research Assistent, MPI für Kernphysik Heidelberg - Cosmic Dust Research Group Field of research: Evaluation and interpretation of mass spectra of the Cosmic Dust Analyser aboard the Cassini spacecraft, Software developement
  2007-2008	Postdoc position, MPI für Kernphysik Heidelberg, Cosmic Dust Research Group
  since 2008	Postdoc position, Heidelberg University, Institute of Earth Sciences, Geo- and Cosmochemistry Department
  2012	Habilitation (Venia Legendi), Mentor Prof. M. Trieloff, Faculty of Chemistry and Geoscience, Heidelberg University

• Fields of research
  • Dust in the saturnian system: Evaluation and interpretation of mass spectra of the Cosmic Dust Analyser aboard the Cassini spacecraft currently at Saturn
  • Geochemitrs of icy moons in the Saturnian system with special focus on the active water-world Enceladus
  • Composition od interplanetary and interstellar dust
  • Laser-assisted water dispersion as an analogue for hypervelocity ice particle impacts
  • Experimental simulation of dust impacts on Aerogel in the framework of the Stardust mission
  • Laboratory calibration and development of dust detectors for space missions
• Teaching
  • Every summer semester: "Vom solaren Nebel zu den Planeten"
• Important publications
  • Postberg, F., Hillier, J.K., Armes, S.P. et al. (2014) Stardust Interstellar Preliminary Examination IX: High speed interstellar dust analogue capture in Stardust flight-spare aerogel, Meteoritics & Planetary Science, MAPS12173, in press
  • Hsu, H.W., Krüger, H., Postberg, F. (2012) Dynamics, Composition, and Origin of Jovian and Saturnian Dust Stream Particles, in 'Nanodust in the Solar System: Discoveries and Interpretations', Editors: Ingrid Mann, Nicole Meyer-Vernet, Andrzej Czechowski, Springer Astrophysics and Space Science Library 385, ISBN 978-3-642-27542-5
  • Postberg, F., Schmidt J., Hillier, J.K. et al. (2011) A salt-water reservoir as the source of a compositionally stratified plume on Enceladus, Nature, Vol. 474, Issue 7353, p. 620-622
  • Postberg, F., Grün E., Horanyi M. et al. (2011) Compositional Mapping of Planetary Moons by Mass Spectrometry of Dust Ejecta, Planetary and Space Science, Vol. 59, p. 1815-1825, doi:10.1016/j.pss.2011.05.001
  • Postberg, F., Kempf, S., Schmidt, J. et al. (2009) Sodium Salts in E Ring Ice Grains from an Ocean below the Surface of Enceladus, Nature, Vol. 459, Issue 7250, p. 1098-1101
  • Postberg, F., Hillier, J.K., Kempf, et al. (2008) The E-ring in the vicinity of Enceladus II: Probing the moon's interior - the composition of E-ring particles, Icarus, vol. 193, p. 438-454.
  • Postberg, F., Kempf, S., Srama, R. et al. (2006) Composition of Jovian Dust Stream Particles, Icarus, vol. 183, p. 122-134.
  • Kempf, S., Srama, R., Postberg, F. et al. (2005) Composition of Saturnian Stream Particles, Science, vol. 307, p. 1274-1276.