Thomas Kupfer

Background

About Thomas Kupfer

I am a Professor of Physics and Astronomy and member BlackGEM collaborations at the University of Hamburg, studying the late stages of stellar evolution and the population of gravitational wave sources in the LISA band, including hot subdwarf binaries, white dwarfs and AM CVn type binaries. Before I moved to Hamburg I was an Assistant Professor at Texas Tech for 3 years and I was for 5 years a postdoctoral scholar at the Kavli Institute of Technology at UC Santa Barbara and at the California Institute of Technology. During my time at KITP and Caltech I was calibration scientist for the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF), where I was responsible for the quality assurance of the survey. I am former communication coordinator and former lead of the Galactic Plane science working group for ZTF. I am also scientific lead of the Fast and the Furious survey, a high-cadence survey in the Galactic Plane covering the full inner Plane visible from the Northern hemisphere as part of ZTF.