André Maeder
Research
Research in stellar evolution, especially concerning mass loss by stellar winds, rotation and mixing processes of nuclear elements in starsThese works are applied to stellar population analysis in clusters, galaxies, starbursts and very high redshift galaxies, which can be observed with large telescopes. They also allow the interpretation of the surface abundances in stars, the stellar winds composition, Supernovae explosions and gamma-rays from radioactive isotopes (INTEGRAL satellite). The massive stars' evolution models of the Geneva Observatory are at present time the most used in the astronomical community.
Publications
About 240 publications in stellar evolution. Based on a recent bibliometric study (by D. Burstein, astro--ph/0005277, 12 May 2000 ), A. Maeder belongs to the list of the most cited astrophysicists in the world.For the last 15 years, A. Maeder has presented about 80 international conferences, among others at IAU, ESO and ESA as well as numerous seminars in european, american and canadian institutes.
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Last update: 2006/10/19