KARL M. MENTEN’S CV & BIBLIOGRAPHY – 1 – CURRICULUM VITÆA * PROF. DR. KARL MARTIN MENTENSSS SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS Director, Millimeter and Submillimeter Astronomy Department, Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie Office Address: Auf dem Hügel 69, D-53121 Bonn, Germany Tel.: +49 228-525297, Office: +49 228-525471, Fax: +49 228-525435 E-mail: [email protected] Internet: http://www.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de/staff/kmenten/ Personal Information Date of Birth: October 3, 1957 Place of Birth: Briedel/Mosel, Germany Marital Status: Married to Barbara E. Menten Two children: Dr. Martin J. Menten (born 1990) and Julia E. Menten (born 1992) 1976–1977 Compulsory military service University Education/Professional Experience 1977 Matriculated at Bonn University, Germany 1982–1984 Research for Diploma thesis at the Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie (MPIfR), Bonn May 1984 Diploma in Physics, Bonn University; diploma thesis title: Ammonia Observations of Two Molecular Clouds with Bipolar Outflows and Line Cooling of Weak Shocks in Molecular Clouds 1984–1987 Predoctoral Research Fellow at the MPIfR 16 July 1987 Dr. rer. nat., Bonn University; dissertation title: Interstellar Methanol towards Galactic HII Regions 1987–1989 Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Harvard College Observatory at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA), Cambridge, MA, USA 1989–1992 Research Associate at the CfA 1990–1996 Contributor to junior and senior tutorial program of the Astronomy Department, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA 1992–1996 Radio Astronomer, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (with tenure) 1995–1996 Lecturer on Astronomy, Astronomy Department, Harvard University 1996 Senior Radio Astronomer, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory Since Dec. 1996 Director for Millimeter and Submillimeter Astronomy at the MPIfR Since Dec. 2000 Honorary Professor, Bonn University Since June 2001 Legally equivalent membership of the Mathematical-Natural Sciences Faculty of Bonn University Since 2001 Principal Investigator, Atacama Pathfinder Experiment (APEX) 2008–2012 and Managing Director, MPIfR since Feb. 2019 Awards, Honors, and Academy Memberships 1991 Visiting Associate at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), Pasadena, CA, USA 1995 Smithsonian Institution Superior Accomplishment Award 1996 Smithsonian Institution Special Achievement Award * Updated on August 9 2021 KARL M. MENTEN’S CV & BIBLIOGRAPHY – 2 – 2003 Philip Morris Research Prize 2004 (with F. Bertoldi & E. Kreysa) for Große Bolometerem- pfänger für die (Sub)millimeter-Astronomie (Large-Scale Bolometer Detectors for (Sub)millimeter Astronomy) 2007 42nd annual Karl G. Jansky Lectureship “for outstanding contributions to the advancement of astronomy” (Trustees of Associated Universities, Inc./National Radio Astronomy Obser- vatory) – First German scientist to receive this award 2009 European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Investigator Grant 247078 GLOSTAR: A Global View of Star Formation in the Milky Way (was awarded 2.3 M€ European Union (EU) funding over the course of five years) 2011 Smithsonian Institution 2011 Secretary’s Research Prize to M. J. Reid, K. M. Menten, X. W. Zheng, et al. for the article “Trigonometric Parallaxes of Massive Star-Forming Regions. VI. Galactic Structure, Fundamental Parameters, and Noncircular Motions”, published in the Astrophysical Journal (2009) (see Bibliography) 2019 NSF Diamond Achievement Award (US National Science Foundation / as a member of the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) Collaboration) 2019 2020 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics (Breakthrough Foundation / as a member of the EHT Collaboration) 2019 Smithsonian American Ingenuity Award 2019 (Physical Sciences) (Smithsonian Institution / as a member of the EHT Collaboration) 2020 Einstein-Medal (Albert Einstein Society, Switzerland / as member of the EHT Collaboration) 2020 Bruno-Rossi-Prize (American Astronomical Society / as a member of the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration) 2020 Nelson P. Jackson Aerospace Award (US National Space Club and Foundation / as a member of the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration) 2021 Group Achievement Award (Royal Astronomical Society /as a member of the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration) —————————————————————— 2001 Elected ordinary member, Class of Natural Sciences and Medicine, North-Rhine West- phalian Academy of Sciences and Arts 2004 Elected ordinary member, Physical Sciences Section, German National Academy of Sciences, Leopoldina 2012 Elected Honorary Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society Memberships in Professional Societies /Associations • Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften • International Astronomical Union (IAU) • American Astronomical Society (AAS) • Astronomische Gesellschaft (German Astronomical Society) • European Astronomical Society (EAS) • Kepler-Gesellschaft, Weil der Stadt, Germany • Deutsches Terahertz-Zentrum e.V. (German Terahertz Center) Scientific Organizing Committees (since 1997) 1997 SOC, Highly Redshifted Radio Lines conference, Green Bank, WV, USA, October 1997 1998 Co-organizer, Future of Antarctic Astrophysics session, 192nd Meeting of the American Astronomical Society, San Diego, CA, USA, June 1998 1998 Co-organizer, Millimeterinterferometrie splinter-meeting at the Annual Meeting of the Astronomische Gesellschaft, Heidelberg, Germany, September 1998 1998 SOC, Third Cologne-Zermatt Symposium, Zermatt, Switzerland, September 1998 KARL M. MENTEN’S CV & BIBLIOGRAPHY – 3 – 1998/1999 SOC, US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Workshop on SPECS (Submillimeter Probe of the Evolution of Cosmic Structure), University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA, February 1999 1998/1999 Co-organizer, Sub-Millimetre Astronomy session at the URSI General Assembly in Toronto, Canada, August 1999 1998/1999 SOC, IAU Symposium 197 Astrochemistry: From Molecular Clouds to Planetary Systems, Sogwipo, Republic of Korea, August 1999 1999 SOC, Science with the Atacama Large Millimeter Array conference, Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington, DC, USA, October 1999 1999/2000 SOC, Arcetri-Volterra 2000 Workshop on High-Mass Star Formation: An Origin in Clusters, Volterra, Italy, May/June 2000 1999/2000 SOCs, IAU Joint Discussions on Massive Star Birth and Cold Gas and Dust at High Redshift, XXXIVth IAU General Assembly, Manchester, UK, August 2000 2000/2001 SOC, IAU Symposium 206 Cosmic Masers: From Protostars to Black Holes, Mangaratiba, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, March 2001 2002/2003 SOC, VLBA 10th Anniversary Conference, Socorro, NM, USA 2002/2003 SOC, 4th Cologne/Bonn/Zermatt Symposium The Dense Interstellar Medium in Galaxies, Zermatt, Switzerland, September 2003 2003 SOC, IRAM in the ALMA/Herschel/Planck Era Workshop, Grenoble, France, December 2003 2003/2004 SOC, The Dusty and Molecular Universe conference, Paris, France, October 2004 2004/2005 SOC, Astrochemistry – Recent Successes and Current Challenges conference, Asilomar, CA, USA, August/September 2005 2005 SOC, ESA Far-InfraRed Mission (FIRM) workshop, Utrecht, The Netherlands, October 2005 2005/2006 SOC, Complex Molecules in Space – Present status and prospects with ALMA workshop, Fuglsøcentret, Denmark, May 2006 2006 SOC, Coronae Workshop, Bonn, Germany 2006/2007 SOC, IAU Symposium 242 Astrophysical Masers: Theory and Applications, Alice Springs, Australia, March 2007 2006/2007 SOC, Molecules in Space and Laboratory conference, Paris, May 2007 2006/2007 SOC, Massive Star Formation: Observations confront Theory conference, Heidelberg, Germany, September 2007 2007 Co-chair, SOC, SOFIA’s 2020 Vision: Scientific and Technological Opportunities Workshop, Pasadena, CA, USA, December 2007 2007/2008 SOC, IAU Symposium 251 Organic Matter in Space, Hong Kong, China, February 2008 2007/2008 SOC, 4th Heidelberg International Symposium on High Energy Gamma Ray Astronomy, July 2008 2007/2008 SOC, The Early Phase of Star Formation – the Future of the Field, Ringberg Castle, July/ August 2008 2008/2009 Chair, SOC, The Expanded Very Large Array (EVLA) Vision: Stars on and off the Main Sequence workshop, Socorro, NM, May 2009 2008/2009 SOC, Millimeter and Submillimeter Astronomy at High Angular Resolution, Taipeh, Taiwan, June 2009 2009 SOC, SZ@Bonn: A Multi-Wavelength Look at Galaxy Clusters, Bonn, July 2009 2008/2009 SOC, New Science Enabled by Microarcsecond Astrometry workshop, Socorro, NM, USA, July 2009 2009/2010 Co-organizer/SOC, Do All Stars Form in Compact Clusters? From Certainties to Doubts work- shop, Argelander-Institut für Astronomie, Bonn University, March 2010 2010 SOC, Star formation under extreme conditions: the Galactic center, Observatoire des Sciences de l’Universe de Besançon, France 2010/2011 SOC, IAU Symposium 280 The Molecular Universe, Toledo, Spain, May/June 2011 2011 SOC, JENAM-2011 SPS-2: Massive Star Formation, St. Petersburg, Russia, July 2011 2011–2013 SOC, Planets & Protostars V conference (and book), Heidelberg, Germany, 2013 2011/2012 Chair, SOC, Science with the Atacama Pathfinder Experiment (APEX), Ringberg Castle, February 2012 KARL M. MENTEN’S CV & BIBLIOGRAPHY – 4 – 2011/2012 SOC, 5th Heidelberg International Symposium on High-Energy Gamma Ray Astronomy, Heidel- berg, July 2012 2011/2012 SOC, 2nd N. Copernicus Astronomical Center (NCAC) Symposium, The Orion Nebula: A Laboratory for the Study of Star Formation and Gaseous Nebulae, Warsaw, Poland, 16–18 July 2012 2012 SOC, Radio Stars and Their Lives in the Galaxy, workshop at MIT Haystack Observatory, Westford MA, USA, 3–5