Welcome Professor Bertram Bitsch!

2 Oct 2023

Professor Bitsch officially started as Professor of Astrophysics on 1st September 2023. Prior to this Bertram was an Independent Research Group Leader at the Max-Planck-Institute for Astronomy in Heidelberg (Germany) funded by ERC. As well as teaching, Bertram will be leading research in the following areas: Astrophysics, Planet formation, hydrodynamical and N-body simulations.

You can visit Bertram’s website here for further information on his background etc. 

Catch some of Bertrams activities since starting with the School of Physics below:

• He discusses the dusty samples Nasa has brought back to Earth from an asteroid described as 'the most dangerous known rock in the solar system' on this RTE radio interview: https://www.rte.ie/radio/radio1/clips/22300718/
  
  
• Likewise in this article https://www.echolive.ie/corknews/arid-41234671.html on the Evening Echo, Professor Bitsch discusses the possibility of an asteroid hitting earth in 159 years! 

We look forward to working with Bertram and wish him well with his future endeavours within the School.