About Us

Information about the people behind Einstein Online – from the editorial team and our authors to the scientific advisory council.

Publisher

Einstein-Online is published by the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute) in Potsdam, Germany.

Editorial board

is an astrophysicist and press officer at the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute) in Hanover, Germany.

is a trained astrophysicist and a freelance science communicator. Since 2018, he is the editor for Einstein-online.

is research coordinator at the Albert Einstein Institut. She is responsible for all organizational issues regarding the Einstein Online website.

is a trained physicist and geoscientist and works as a science communicator in Bremen, Germany.

is the managing scientist at Haus der Astronomie, the Center for Astronomy Education and Outreach in Heidelberg, and senior outreach scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy. He initiated Einstein Online.

Screendesign / Programmierung

is a German Communication Designer with a great passion for explaining science. She developed the screen design and illustrations for Einstein Online.

is responsible for the maintenance and web programming on Einstein Online – part of his responsibilities as web programmer for the Max Planck Campus in Golm/Potsdam, where the Albert Einstein Institute is situated.

Authors

is a scientist at the Albert Einstein Institute in Hannover who is involved in the maintenance and development of the gravitational wave detector GEO600.

is a scientist at the Albert Einstein Institute in Hanover.

is an astrophysicist at the Max Planck Institute for Radioastronomy in Bonn, Germany.

is a professor of astrophysics and space science at the University of Leicester. His research interests are hot white dwarfs, the interstellar medium, and the development and their observation.

is a professor for theoretical physics at the Center for Astronomy of Heidelberg University. His research is concerned, among other things, with cosmology and gravitational lensing.

is a professor for theoretical physics at the Center for Astronomy of Heidelberg University. His research is concerned, among other things, cosmology and gravitational lensing.

is head of the “Dissemination of Time” working group at the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt in Braunschweig.

is a physics professor at Pennsylvania State University with a research focus on cosmological applications of loop quantum gravity.

is J. C. Carter Emeritus Professor of Theoretical Physics at Loyola University in New Orleans and co-inventor of Jordan-Brans-Dicke theory, an extension of general relativity.

is a professor of physics at the Missouri University of Science & Technology. His research interests are quantum gravity and cosmology.

is a professor of gravitational physics at the University of Vienna. His research covers a wide range of mathematical topics related to Einstein’s equations.

Tim Dietrich is a theoretical astrophysicist and professor at the University of Potsdam (Germany).

used to work as a scientist at the Albert Einstein Institute in Potsdam.

is a professor of physics at the University of Valencia. His research interests are numerical relativistic (magneto)-hydrodynamics and numerical relativity.

David Garfinkle is a professor of physics at Oakland University with a focus on numerical relativity.

is an Associate Professor of Physics at Virginia Commonwealth University with a research focus on the geometrical properties of spacetimes.

Gerhard Heinzel is a physicist at the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics in Hanover and leader of the space interferometry research group.

Magdalena Kersting is a physics educator and science communicator.

is an astrophysicist and press officer at the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute) in Hanover, Germany.

is a professor of physic at Hildesheim University.

is a physicist and professor at the Institute for Mathematics, Astrophysics and Particle Physics at Radboud University, The Netherlands.

is a professor at the Institute of Mathematics of the Polish Academy of Sciences. His area of research encompasses gravitation and general relativity.

is a trained astrophysicist and a freelance science communicator. Since 2018, he is the editor for Einstein-online.

is a former member of the geometric analysis group at Albert Einstein Institute in Potsdam.

is an Associate Professor of Mathematics at the University of Nottingham. His main research interest is quantum gravity, including quantum cosmology.

is a computer scientist at the Albert Einstein Institute in Hannover, where he works on the data analysis of the gravitational wave detectors LIGO and GEO600. He is a major contributor to the Einstein@Home project.

Emanuel Malek is a theoretical physicst, working on various aspects of string theory, at Humboldt University Berlin.

is a physicist and science writer.

is a trained physicist and geoscientist and works as a science communicator in Bremen, Germany.

is the managing scientist at Haus der Astronomie, the Center for Astronomy Education and Outreach in Heidelberg, and senior outreach scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy. He initiated Einstein Online.

is a scientist at the Albert Einstein Institute in Hannover. His research interests include neutron stars and the detection of gravitational waves. He is one of the developers of the Einstein@Home project.

is professor of mathematics at Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz, Germany.

is a physics professor at Lesley University, Cambridge (USA). He is Senior Scientific Editor of the Collected Papers of Albert Einstein, the Einstein Papers Project at the California Institute of Technology.

Gerhard Schäfer is Professor of Theoretical Physics and Relativistic Astrophysics at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena.

is the Timken University Professor at Harvard University and a Senior Scientist of the Smithsonian Institution.

is a physics professor at Lesley University, Cambridge (USA).

Masaru Shibata is director of the department Computational Relativistic Astrophysics at the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics in Potsdam and professor at the Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kyoto University, Japan.

s a long-term researcher at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Waterloo, Canada, and an adjoint professor at the University of Waterloo. His main research interest is in quantum gravity, with a particular focus on loop quantum gravity.

is emeritus professor of physics at Syracuse University, New York State, and a senior researcher at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Waterloo, Canada. His research focuses on the causal set hypothesis as the basis of a theory of quantum gravity.

is a research group leader at Albert Einstein Institute with a research focus on string theory.

is a professor of physics at Erlangen University. His research is concerned with all aspects of loop quantum gravity.

is a professor of physics at the University of California, Irvine, and staff astronomer at Las Cumbres Observatory. Her research interests are the structure and evolution of stars, galaxies, and the universe, and of the communities of scientists who study them.

is a professor of theoretical physics at Karlstad University.

Achim Weiss is a scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics in Garching near Munich, in Germany. His main area of research is stellar physics.

is director of the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy in Bonn and head of the research department “Radio Astronomy/VLBI”.

Scientific Advisory Board

The members of the scientific advisory board are responsible for quality assurance on Einstein Online. They review all new material that is added to the website. In addition, they suggest new “spotlights on relativity” and suitable authors.

is professor of mathematics at Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz, Germany.

is a Director Emeritus at the Albert Einstein Institute in Potsdam. His main research interest is in the physics and detection of gravitational waves.

is a research group leader at Albert Einstein Institute with a research focus on string theory.

is a professor of physics at Erlangen University. His research is concerned with all aspects of loop quantum gravity.

Special thanks to …

Marilyn Daily for her invaluable editorial work on the English version of Elementary Einstein; Badri Krishnan and Dennis Pollney for their help with English translations; Luciano Rezzolla for acting as a reviewer; Susanne Milde and the kind people of Milde Marketing Science Communication for their support with public relations.

The IT department at Albert Einstein Institute for their continuing support of this website.

Einstein Online will always remember Jürgen Ehlers (1929-2008), who was the founding director of Albert Einstein Institute in Potsdam. His research covered a diversity of aspects of general relativity. His continued support and advice have been invaluable for making this web portal what it is. Further information, including an obituary, can be found here.