Biography

Hello and Welcome!

My name is Markus Feldt, I am a staff scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Heidelberg, Germany. I’ve started here as a postdoc in 1999 and stayed since.

During the first years I was the project scientist for the ALFA project, an experimental adaptive optics (AO) system on the 3.5m telescope on Calar Alto, Spain. Scientifically I was mostly concerned with the formation of massive stars. The interest in AO persisted, and I became more and more involved in instrumentation projects, primarily along the tracks of pyramid wavefront sensors and extreme adaptive optics. Today I am MPIA’s Co-I of the METIS project (see below).