PhD: 1996, University of Würzburg, Germany; thesis advisors Harald W. Yorke and Hans Zinnecker Post-doc: 1997, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (with You-Hua Chu)。 Post-doc: 1998, Caltech/JPL/IPAC (with Deborah L. Padgett and Karl R. Stapelfeldt)。 Assistant astronomer (faculty): 1999, University of Hawaii (member of the Adaptive Optics group)。 Associate Astronomer: 2001, European So uthern Observatory ，(Instrument Scientist for NAOS-CONICA)。 Staff Scientist: since 2002, Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie (Adaptive Optics group)， Visiting Professor at UCLA: 2006-2007。 My Research Interests: The environment of nearby Starburst Clusters: Proplyds, T Tauri stars, and Supergiants Brown Dwarfs and Exoplanets, with a focus on Binary Brown Dwarfs Circumstellar Disks around Class I sources and Classical T Tauri stars High-resolution observations with Adaptive Optics and HST Major scientific collaborations: AstraLux and AstraLux Sur - The Lucky Imaging Cameras for Calar Alto and La Silla (CoPI and science coordinator) GRAVITY - NIR Adpative Optics for the VLTI (CoI) METIS - Mid-infrared instrument for the European Extremely Large Telescope (Science Team) PanStarrs 1 - Panchromatic multi-epoch sky survey (Science Council and Key Project 3 co-lead) - Übersichtsartikel in STERNE UND WELTRAUM SEEDS - Exoplanet and disk survey at the SUBARU telescope (Science Team) LEECH - LBTI Exozodi Exoplanet Characterization Hunt (Science Team) SPHERE - Exoplanet imager and spectrograph at the VLT (NIRSUR Science Team) publication 2015PASJ..tmp..233M 1.000 08/2015 A E F X R Momose, Munetake; Morita, Ayaka; Fukagawa, Misato; Muto, Takayuki; Takeuchi, Taku; Hashimoto, Jun; Honda, Mitsuhiko; Kudo, Tomoyuki; Okamoto, Yoshiko K.; Kanagawa, Kazuhiro D.; and 52 coauthors Detailed structure of the outer disk around HD 169142 with polarized light in H-band 2015A&A...579C...2M 1.000 07/2015 A E F S Maire, A.-L.; Skemer, A. J.; Hinz, P. M.; Desidera, S.; Esposito, S.; Gratton, R.; Marzari, F.; Skrutskie, M. F.; Biller, B. A.; Defrère, D.; and 29 coauthors The LEECH Exoplanet Imaging Survey. Further constraints on the planet architecture of the HR 8799 system (Corrigendum) 2015A&A...579A.129W 1.000 07/2015 A E F X R S U Wöllert, Maria; Brandner, Wolfgang A Lucky Imaging search for stellar sources near 74 transit hosts 2015ApJ...806L..10D 1.000 06/2015 A E F X R S U de Leon, Jerome; Takami, Michihiro; Karr, Jennifer L.; Hashimoto, Jun; Kudo, Tomoyuki; Sitko, Michael; Mayama, Satoshi; Kusakabe, Nobuyuki; Akiyama, Eiji; Liu, Hauyu Baobab; and 46 coauthors Near-IR High-resolution Imaging Polarimetry of the SU Aur Disk: Clues for Tidal Tails? 2015A&A...578L...9C 1.000 06/2015 A E F X D R S U Csépány, Gergely; van den Ancker, Mario; Ábrahám, Péter; Brandner, Wolfgang; Hormuth, Felix Examining the T Tauri system with SPHERE 2015A&A...578A...4S 1.000 06/2015 A E F X D R S O U Stolte, A.; Hußmann, B.; Olczak, C.; Brandner, W.; Habibi, M.; Ghez, A. M.; Morris, M. R.; Lu, J. R.; Clarkson, W. I.; Anderson, J. Circumstellar discs in Galactic centre clusters: Disc-bearing B-type stars in the Quintuplet and Arches clusters