Dr. Michael Gruber

Optical Lead and work package manager of the development of optical ground stations. Optical design and engineering for optical laser satellite communication terminals. Assembly, integration and test activities for optical instruments. Established a facility for optical SatCom including Nasmyth telescope and ground support equipment.

Optical Design of space optical instruments and metrology systems. Development of an optical design tool for freeform optics. STOP analysis for the freeform telescope of the Sentinel 5 Earth Observation instrument. Development of a freeform design tool for compact space spectrometers.

Single molecule studies of photosynthetic protein complexes. Investigation of the fluorescence lifetime, fluorescence spectrum and fluorescence kinetics on the time scale from hundreds of femtoseconds up to milliseconds. Supervisor of the confocal fluorescence setup. Complimentary projects involved imaging of multi-layered quantum dot structures, algal colonies and and monolayers of photosynthetic complexes on nano-structured electrode surfaces.

Single molecule fluorescence experiments (FCS and TIRF) on the aggregation kinetics of α-Synuclein and amyloid formation.

Specific surface termination of single-crystalline, undoped diamond samples and its effect on the conductivity and pH sensitivity of diamond-based ion sensitive field effect transistors.

Implementation and evaluation of a device for lifetime measurements of minority charge carriers in silicon.

The International Space University (ISU) provides graduate-level training to the future leaders of the emerging global space community. The Space Studies Program (SSP) is a nine-week program that covers the main space related fields.

Single molecule spectroscopy, Fluorescence microscopy, Ultra-Fast Spectroscopy

Biomedical Imaging

Biophysics