Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics

Curriculum Vitae

PD Dr. Manami Sasaki

Education
02/2016Habilitation in Experimental Physics, Eberhart Karls University, Tübingen, Germany
05/2002Ph. D. in Astronomy, Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich, Germany, Max-Planck-Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Joachim Trümper, Title: X-rays tracing the star formation history of the Magellanic Clouds
07/1997Diplom in Physics, Ruprecht-Karls-University, Heidelberg, Germany, Landessternwarte Heidelberg-Königstuhl, Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Stefan Wagner, Title: Short-time variability of blazers in the near-infrared
Employment history
01/2016 - presentHeisenberg Fellow of the German Research Foundation, Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Eberhard Karls University Tübingen, Germany
09/2010 - presentEmmy Noether Research Group Leader, Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Eberhard Karls University Tübingen, Germany
06/2009 - 08/2010Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Eberhard Karls University Tübingen, Germany
01/2003 - 12/2005Postdoctoral Fellow, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, USA
Supervision of young researchers
2010 - presentFour Postdocs, two Ph.D. students, two Diplom (undergraduate) students, two Bachelor students, one Master student, three student assistants, Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Eberhard Karls University Tübingen, Germany
Teaching activities
2015Basic Course on Astronomy and Astrophysics
2010 - presentSpecial courses at the Eberhard Karls University Tübingen on High-Energy Astrophysics, High-Energy Sources in our Galaxy, Extragalactic Astrophysics, and Endpoints of Stellar Evolution
2010 - presentExercises for the lecture Astronomy and Astrophysics
04/2013 - 08/2013Lecturer at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena: Lecture, exercises, and seminar on Neutron Stars and Supernova Remnants
Professional activities
2003 - presentReviewer for the Astrophysical Journal, Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan, and Acta Polytechnica
2014, 2015

Time allocation committee (TAC) for Suzaku (JAXA/ESA)

2012, 2015TAC for Chandra X-ray Observatory (NASA)

2011, 2012

TAC for XMM-Newton (ESA)
Memberships in consortia
Since 2015Member of the Athena Science Working Groups on SNRs/ISM and Multiwavelength Synegies
Since 2015Member of the Athena Wide Field Imager Science Team
Since 2014Member of the H.E.S.S. collaboration
Since 2012Senior member of the eROSITA consortium
Since 2011Chairperson of the eROSITA SWG on diffuse Emission/SNRs
Invited Talks and Symposia
04/2016

9. Sino-German Frontiers of Science Symposium organised by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and Chinese Academy of Science, Shenzhen, China,

Talk: Formation and Evolution of Galaxies

11/2014Superbubbles, HI holes and Supershells Workshop, Freising, Germany,
Talk: The hot ISM in the Large Magellanic Cloud
10/201411. Japanese-German Frontiers of Science Symposium organised by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Bremen, Germany,
Poster: Nearby Galaxies in X-rays: Studying their Components and Global Evolution
05/2013

Frascati Workshop 2013, Multifrequency Behaviour of High Energy Cosmic Sources, Palermo, Italy,

Talk: Multiwavelength View of Supernova Remnants

07/2012

Astrophysics Colloquium, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany,

Talk: X-ray study of supernova remnants

05/2012

Vulcano Workshop 2012, Frontier Objects in Astrophysics and Particle Physics, Vulcano, Italy,

Talk: Review of Galactic and Extragalactic SNRs as Sites of Particle Acceleration

01/2012

Science Seminar, Astronomisches Institut, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany,

Talk: Shock-heated plasma in the ISM

Career breaks
01/2006 - 05/2009Maternity leave; two children (born 12/2005 and 12/2007).