Martin Burgdorf (DSI)
Senior Scientist
mburgdorf@sofia.usra.edu

Martin Burgdorf is the telescope assembly scientist of the German SOFIA Institute and contributes to performance tests and characterization of various components of the telescope. He took up his duties at the SOFIA Science Center in April 2009 after he had served a stint of four years as project scientist for RoboNet, a network of the world's largest robotic telescopes. During that time he got interested in the search for extrasolar planets and joined MiNDSTEp, a consortium, which detects such objects using the microlensing technique. He was also a member of instrument teams for the Infrared Space Observatory and Spitzer and published articles about the infrared spectra of the giant planets in our solar system.