CV

Personal Details

Name: Patricia Luppe
Year of Birth: 1987
Place of Birth: Halle (Saale), Germany
Family life: two kids (*2016, *2019)
Interests: Astrophysics, Politics, Communicating, Music, Literature, Console Gaming

Education

10/2014 – 05/2017
Master of Science in Astrophysics
University of Munich
Title of Master Thesis: “Probing the inner radii of transition discs with far infrared colour diagrams”

07/2016 – 06/2017 Parental leave

10/2010 – 09/2014
Bachelor of Science in Physics
University of Munich
Title of Bachelor Thesis: “Untersuchung des Zusammenhangs zwischen Massenakkretionsrate und Röntgenleuchtkraft bei Vorhauptreihensternen“
(“Investigation of the relation between mass accretion rate and X-ray luminosity of pre-main-sequence stars”)

10/2007 – 03/2011
Bachelor of Science in Business Studies
Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg
Title of Bachelor Thesis: “Möglichkeiten und Grenzen direkter Demokratie in Deutschland”
(“Capabilities and limits of direct democracy in Germany“)

Academic Career

06/2017 – present
Research Assistent/Doctorate
Friedrich Schiller University of Jena

10/2019 – 12/2020 Parental leave

10/2018 – 09/2020
Committee work
Doctoral Council of Friedrich Schiller University of Jena

Publication/Research

10/2019
“Observability of Dusty Debris Discs around M-stars”

06/2017 – present
Research associate of German Research Foundation (DFG) Unit FOR 2285 “Debris Disks in Planetary Systems”

Academic Conferences and Talks

09/2022
Planet Formation and Evolution (PFE)
Berlin, Germany

08+09/2022
Debris Discs: At Home and Abroad (DDHA-2022)
Jena, Germany
Talk, Member of Local Organizing Committee

11/2021
German Conferences of Women in Physics
German Physical Society (DPG), Duisburg, Germany (digital)

07/2021
Sagan Summer Workshop: Circumstellar Disks and Young Planets
(digital)

03/2021
Cool Stars 20.5
(digital)

11/2020
German Conferences of Women in Physics
German Physical Society (DPG), Hamburg, Germany (digital)
Talk

10/2020
Zeiss Planetarium Jena
Talks

08/2019
Current and Future Trends in Debris Discs Science II
Budapest, Hungary
Talk

02/2019
Planet Formation and Evolution 2019
Rostock, Germany
Poster

09/2018
German Conferences of Women in Physics
German Physical Society (DPG), Oldenburg, Germany
Poster (Poster Award)

08/2018
XXXth General Assembly of the International Astronomical Union
Wien/Vienna, Austria
Poster

06/2018
Thuringian State Observatory
Tautenburg, Germany
Talk

06/2018
Cosmic Dust: Origin, applications & implications
Kopenhagen, Denmark
Poster

09/2017
Planet Formation and Evolution
Jena, Germany
Member of Local Organizing Committee

Teaching

Summer Term 2022
Experiment Mentoring: Undergraduate Physics Laboratory

Winter Term 2021/2022
Tutorial Class: Mathematical Methods in Physics

Summer Term 2021 – Winter Term 2021/2022
Tutorial Class: Mathematical Preparation Course vor Physicists

Summer Term 2018 – Summer Term 2019
Experiment Mentoring: Undergraduate Physics Laboratory

Winter Term 2017/2018
Tutorial Class: Radio Astronomy

Extracurricular activities

05/2011 – 07/2015
Research Assistant
Chair for Timber Structures and Building Construction
Technical University of Munich

– Organized and maintained the chairs library
– Assisted in research projects
– Updated and maintained the chairs website
– Worked with the content management system typo3
– Created a user manual for the chairs website
– Assisted in the preparation of lecture notes for the subject “Darstellende Geometrie” (“Descriptive Geometry”)
– Supported the correction of the exams in “Darstellende Geometrie” (“Descriptive Geometry”)
– Assisted in the preparation of the lecture “Einführung in CAD” (“Introduction to CAD”)
– Created a detailed business plan for the project “Forschungs- und Entwicklungslabor für das Brandingenieurwesen” (“Development and Research Lab for Fire Engineering”)

03/2011 – 03/2012
Student Consultant
Academy Consult München e.V. – Student Consultancy, Munich

– Project Manager for the Logistics Department for the Event “20th Anniversary BDSU 2012” in Munich
– Assisted in the Managing Board “External”

04/2008 – 09/2010
Student Consultant
Campus Contact Halle e.V. – Student Consultancy, Halle

– Participated in internal trainings and workshops
– Participated in workshops and platform meetings of the umbrella organisation BDSU (Bund Deutscher Studentischer Unternehmensberatungen)
– Organized the career fair “Campus Meets Companies”
– Collaborated in internal projects
– Collaborated in the external project “Campus Live” (01/2010 – 07/2010)
– Assisted in the managing board “External”

Additional Skills

Languages
Native: German
Fluent: English
Good command: Spanish
Basic: French

Computer skills
Advanced: Microsoft Windows, MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook), MAC OS, typo3, WordPress
Intermediate: Python
Basic: Linux, LaTeX, SAOImage DS9, Gnuplot, CAD