Personal Data

Name	Harald Ebeling
Date and Place of Birth	May 30, 1963, Frankfurt am Main (Germany)
Nationality	German

Phone	+1 808 956 9695 (work) +1 808 499 5379 (mobile)
Fax	+1 808 956 9590
email	ebeling@ifa.hawaii.edu
WWW	http://www.ifa.hawaii.edu/~ebeling

Address	Institute for Astronomy University of Hawai'i 2680 Woodlawn Drive Honolulu, HI 96822 USA

Employment Authorization	US: Unconditional (Green Card) EU: Unconditional (EU national)

Language Skills	German (mother tongue) English (fluent) French (good) Spanish (basic)

Positions Held

since 8/2004	Astronomer at IfA, member of the Graduate Faculty (since 2001)
7/1999-7/2004	Associate Astronomer at IfA
1/1996-6/1999	Assistant Astronomer at IfA Member of the Chandra Science Center at the University of Hawai'i
2/1994-1/1996	Postdoctoral EARA Fellow at the Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge, UK
1/1987-5/1990	Research Assistant at the Physics Department of the Technische Universität München and the Institut Max von Laue-Paul Langevin (ILL) in Grenoble, France. Area of research: high-energy spectroscopy with ultra-cold neutrons at the ILL high flux reactor

Research Grants

H. Ebeling PI:

1997 NASA/ADP A comparative study of X-ray and lensing mass determinations for the most X-ray luminous clusters in the sky

1999 NASA/LTSA From detection to comprehension: Understanding the physical mechanisms driving cluster X-ray evolution

1999 SAO The cluster X-ray temperature function at z > 0.6

1999 NASA/ADP A calibration of the cluster flux measurements in the ROSAT All-Sky Survey

2000 NASA/ADP CIZA: The first systematic X-ray search for clusters of galaxies behind the Milky Way

2001 STScI + SAO Measuring the mass distribution in the most distant, very X-ray luminous galaxy cluster known (joint HST/Chandra study)

2001 SAO MACS: The x-ray properties of the most massive galaxy clusters at z>0.3 (Chandra Large Program)

2002 SAO The mass distribution in the most distant virialized galaxy cluster known

2002 SAO The assembly of a giant galaxy cluster at z=0.545

2002 NASA/XMM Weighing the largest mass concentrations in the Great Attractor region

total amount of funding awarded: > $1,550,000
H. Ebeling co-I:

1999 STScI A strong lensing survey of the mass distribution in X-ray luminous clusters (PI J.-P. Kneib)

2000 NASA/XMM Measuring the mass distribution in z ~ 0.2 cluster lenses with XMM, HST, and CFHT (PI J.-P. Kneib)

2000 NASA/XMM The X-ray temperature function and structure of clusters at z = 0.6 - 1 (PI L.R. Jones)

2000 SAO Chandra and HST observations of the brightest cluster lenses (PI S.W. Allen)

2000 SAO The interaction between radio galaxies and ICM in the cores of clusters (PI A.C. Edge)

2001 STScI + SAO Chandra and HST observations of the brightest, relaxed cluster lenses (joint HST/Chandra study) (PI S.W. Allen)

2002 SAO Chandra observations of a protocluster at z = 1.31 (PI M. Liu)

2002 SAO Cosmological constraints from the x-ray gas mass fraction in the most luminous, relaxed clusters (PI S.W. Allen)

2002 SAO Chandra observation of HS 1603+3820 - a bright, high redshift quasar with very rich associated absorption (PI A. Dobrzycki)

2002 SAO The remarkable arc in Abell 1201 - probing the mass profile of clusters down to 10 kpc (PI A.C. Edge)
2002 NASA/XMM The most distant, luminous cluster of galaxies (PI L.R. Jones)
2002 NASA/XMM XMM-Newton observations of the brightest relaxed cluster lenses (PI S.W. Allen)

total amount of funding awarded: > $235,000

Non-science interests

Software development, hiking, long-distance running, table tennis, photography, vegetarian cooking, politics...

Last updated on January 31, 2003 by H. Ebeling