Dr. Benjamin Knispel
Outreach
Location Hannover
Location Hannover
Main Focus
Outreach and public relations
- Editorial responsibility for different AEI websites and social media accounts, research, conception, and creation of content
- Press releases
- Support of scientists in press and outreach activities
- Contact for journalists
- Organizing and running events: guided tours at the GEO600 gravitational-wave detectors, institute tours, Open Days, and public lecture series
- Giving public lectures (schools, astronomy clubs, teacher trainings,...)
- Writing of popular science articles
Curriculum Vitae
Education
- 7/2011 Dr. rer. nat., Leibniz University Hannover, “Pulsar Discoveries by Volunteer Computing and the Strongest Continuous Gravitational Wave Signal”
- 4/2007 Diploma in Physics, Leibniz University Hannover, “Energieabstrahlung durch Skalarfelder”
- 2002–2007 Physics studies, Leibniz University Hannover
- 2001 Abitur, Gymnasium Großburgwedel
Experiences
- since 8/2015 Press Officer (full time), Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute; AEI) Hannover
- 2/2013-7/2015 Press Officer (part time) & Postdoc (part time), Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute; AEI) Hannover
- 3-5/2012 Internship at Sterne und Weltraum editorial offices
- 7/2011-1/2013 Postdoc, Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute; AEI) Hannover
- 2009-2016 lecturer for astronomy tourism events
- 2007–2011 PhD student (supervisor Bruce Allen), Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute; AEI) Hannover and Leibniz University Hannover
- 2007–2014 Teaching astronomy courses at the adult education center (Ada-und-Theodor-Lessing-Volkshochschule) Hannover
- since 2004 Outreach in amateur astronomy, Volkssternwarte Hannover