Holger Kreckel
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| EMPLOYMENT
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| 2012 - present
| Independent Research Group leader (ERC starting grant),
Max-Planck-Institute for Nuclear Physics, Heidelberg, Germany .
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| 2009-2012
| Research Scientist, Chemistry Department,
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, USA .
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| 2007-2009
| Postdoctoral Researcher, Astrophysics Laboratory,
Columbia University, New York City, NY, USA.
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| 2004-2007
| Postdoctoral Researcher,
Max-Planck-Institute for Nuclear Physics, Heidelberg, Germany.
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| | EDUCATION
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| 2003 Doctorate
| Dr. rer. nat (doctorate in nat. sciences) in Physics, Summa Cum Laude,
University of Heidelberg, Germany. Advisor: Professor Andreas Wolf.
Thesis: Internal Excitations of Stored Triatomic Hydrogen Molecular Ions.
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| 2000 Diploma
| Diploma in Physics, University of Heidelberg. Advisors: Profs. Dirk
Schwalm and Andreas Wolf. Thesis: Coulomb Explosion Imaging of H3+.
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| 1996 Vordiplom
| Vordiplom in Physics, University of Siegen, Germany
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| | TEACHING
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Winter Semester
2012/2013
| Tutor Physics III
(Quantum Mechanics and Optics)
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Summer Semester
2012
| Lecture: Molecular Astrophysics
(with D. ASemenov MPIA)
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| March 2007
| Organizer high-school open day Physik am Samstagmorgen
at MPI-K Heidelberg.
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| 2004-2006
| Tutor, Seminar on At. and Mol. Physics, Heidelberg University.
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| 2001-2002
| Instructor Advanced Laboratory class, Heidelberg University.
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| 2001- present
| Supervisor to ~10 diploma/graduate students.
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| | VISITS
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| December 2007
| Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, USA.
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| July-Sept. 2006
| Columbia University, New York City, USA.
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| May-June 2004
| Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel.
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| | SERVICE
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| Reviewer
| NSF Proposal Review
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| Referee
| Journal of Physical Chemistry.
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| Referee
| Theoretical Chemistry Accounts.
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| Referee
| Journal of Chemical Physics.
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| Referee
| Journal of Physics: Conference Series.
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| Safety Officer
| Ion trap/laser laboratory, Max-Planck-Institute for Nuclear Physics.
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PATENT
Ion Deflector for two-dimensional control of ion beam cross sectional spread,
H. Kreckel, H. Bruhns, D.W. Savin, Columbia Technology Ventures, US utility patent application, serial number 12/708,886 (2009).
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FUNDING
Principal Investigator, ERC Starting Grant 2012, ASTROLAB: Cold Collisions and the Pathways toward Life in Interstellar Space.
Co-Principal Investigator, D.W. Savin, H. Kreckel, Improved Understanding of Molecular Clouds
and Emission Line Objects with Laboratory Astrophysics Studies at the Heidelberg Ion Storage Ring,
NSF program: Galactic Astronomy, July 2008 - 2011.
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| | RESEARCH
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SCRIBES
Experiment Design
[UIUC]
| Designed and built ion optics and mass spectrometer for the SCRIBES (Sensitive Cooled Resolved Ion BEam Spectroscopy) instrument, enabling high-resolution cavity-enhanced spectroscopy with beams of astrophysically relevant molecular ions.
A.A. Mills et al., J. Chem. Phys. 135, 224201 (2011).
Cavity Ringdown
Spectroscopy
[UIUC]
| Performed cavity ring-down spectroscopy of
para-enriched H3+ with a pulsed supersonic expansion source. Carried out high-resolution storage ring experiments of dissociative recombination of ortho- and para H3+.
Kreckel et al., Phys. Rev. A 82, 042715 (2010).
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Nuclear Spin of
Interstellar H3+
[UIUC] | Model calculatons on the spin-temperature of interstellar H3+, considering the influence of dissociative recombination and collisions with H2.
Crabtree et al., Astrophys. J. 729, 15 (2011).
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Molecular Hydrogen
Formation in the
Early Universe
[Columbia]
| Developed the first merged beams experiment for anion-neutral
chemistry. Performed energy-resolved measurements of the
associative detachment reaction H- + H → H2 + e, relevant for first star formation.
Kreckel et al., Science 329, 69 (2010),
featured in: Science (Perspectives), 329, 45 (2010).
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Interstellar Model
Calculations
[Columbia]
| Updated the Meudon PDR code to examine the influence of new atomic di-electronic recombination rates in
photon-dominated regions.
Bryans et al., Astrophys. J. 694, 286 (2009).
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Structure and Stability
of H2-
[MPI-K]
| Performed Coulomb Explosion Imaging experiments, recording the wave function of the metastable molecular hydrogen anion H2.
Jordon-Thaden et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 193003 (2011).
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Chemical Probing
Spectroscopy
[MPI-K]
| Devised an ultra-sensitive infrared action spectroscopy scheme to
detect H3+ lines above the barrier to linearity. Observed the weakest
H3+ transitions recorded to date.
Kreckel et al., J. Chem. Phys. 119, 164312 (2008).
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Dissociative
Recombination
of Cold H3+
[MPI-K]
| Performed Dissociative Recombination (DR) experiments with rovibrationally cold
H3+ ions using a cryogenic 22-pole ion trap injector. Carried out the first nuclear spin sensitive DR experiments.
Kreckel et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 263201 (2005),
featured in: Nature (News and Views), 440, 157 (2005).
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Cryogenic rf
Ion Trap
[MPI-K]
| Constructed a cryogenic 22-pole radiofrequency (rf) ion trap for cooling of molecular ions down to 10 K. Devised an effective timing scheme to extract and inject H3+ ions into the TSR storage ring.
Kreckel et al., J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 4, 126 (2005)
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Vibrational
and Rotational
Cooling of H3+
[MPI-K]
| Performed Coulomb Explosion Imaging experiments, recording the wave functions of single H3+ ions at the TSR storage ring to monitor vibrational
cooling. Created a comprehensive rovibrational relaxation model, solving
for the radiative decay.
Kreckel et al., New J. Phys. 6, 151 (2004).
Kreckel et al, Phys. Rev. A 66, 052509 (2002).
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INVITED TALKS
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| 11. SMILES 2010, Spectroscopy of Molecular Ions in the Laboratory and in (Extraterrestrial) Space, Kos, Greece, "Experimental results for H2 formation from H- and H and implications for first star formation".
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| 10. DR 2010, The 8th International Conference on Dissociative Recombination, Granlibakken, Lake Tahoe, CA, USA, "Storage ring measurements of the dissociative recombination of H3+: a closer look".
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| 9. DAMOP 2010, Division of Atomic Molecular and Optical Physics of the American Physical Society. Houston, TX, USA, "Molecular hydrogen formation in the early universe: new implications from laboratory measurements".
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| 8. PCSIB 2008, Symposium on Physics with Cold Stored Ion Beams, Heidelberg, Germany, "Neutral-ion collisions in merged beams experiments".
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| 7. ICPEAC 2007, The XXV International Conference on Photonic, Electronic, and Atomic Collisions, Freiburg, Germany, "Electron collisions and rovibrational action spectroscopy of cold H3+ molecules".
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| 6. RF 2006, Symposium on RF ion traps: Technique and Applications in Reaction Dynamics and Spectroscopy, Chemnitz, Germany, "Preparing a state selected H3+ beam using a storage ion source and a 22 pole trap".
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| 5. RSM 2006, Royal Society Meeting on Physics, Chemistry and Astronomy of H3+, London, UK, "Rotational and vibrational cooling of H3+ in laboratory experiments".
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| 4. ESF 2005, European Science Foundation Exploratory Workshop on Ultracold Chemistry, Mulhouse, France, "The low temperature frontier in molecular ion collision experiments".
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| 3. DR 2004, The 6th International Conference on Dissociative Recombination, Mosbach, Germany, "Towards state selective measurements of the H3+ DR rate coefficient".
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| 2. ETR 2001, European Training Network Meeting on Electron Transfer Reactions, Prague, Czech Republic, "Monitoring internal
excitations at the TSR".
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| 1. SALA 2000, Meeting on Atomic and Molecular Physics with Accelerators, Aarhus, Denmark, "Lifetimes of excited states of H3+ studied by Coulomb explosion imaging".
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COLLOQUIA
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| 6. Université Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-La-Neuve, March 25th 2011. |
| 5. Astronomy Colloquium, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, November 17th 2009.
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| 4. Colloquium, Institute for Isotope Research and Nuclear Physics, Vienna, May 4th 2006.
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| 3. Kaffeepalaver, Max-Planck-Institute for Nuclear Physics, November 10th 2005.
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| 2. Quantenseminar, Freiburg University, November 23rd 2005.
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1. Kaffeepalaver, Max-Planck-Institute for Nuclear Physics, July 27th 2000.
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DEPARTMENTAL SEMINARS
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| 6. Max-Planck-Institut f\"ur Kernphysik, Heidelberg, Germany, June 15th 2011.
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| 5. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA, June 27th 2008.
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| 4. Chicago University, USA, August 18th 2005.
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| 3. University of California San Diego, USA, December 3rd 2005.
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| 2. Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel, May 20th 2004.
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| 1. Chemnitz University, Germany, June 23rd 2000.
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