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Research Interests and Science Projects	I am interested in the physical and chemical properties of extrasolar planets and in their formation processes. High-contrast imaging and data analysis techniques help me to search for, directly image, and characterize exoplanets and their birthplaces the so-called protoplanetary disks. I am currently involved in several working groups of the science team for ESO's new planet finding instrument SPHERE, which is to be installed at the VLT in late 2013. In addtion, I am an official member of the ERIS instrument science team and act as local Project Coordinator managing the ETH contribution to the project. ERIS is a 1-5 micron instrument for the Cassegrain focus of UT4 at the VLT. It will benefit from the Adaptive Optics Facility (AOF) including the deformable secondary mirror (DSM). Finally, I am an official member of the METIS science team. METIS is currently foreseen to be the third instrument installed at the E-ELT, ESO's 39-m telescope, in the early 2020s. In 2012, I served as National Project Manager in an international consortium that carried out an assessment study for ESA's M-class mission candidate EChO and I supported the related consortium science working group as deputy Project Scientist.
Teaching	Substitute lecturer for Prof. Dr. Michael R. Meyer and PD Dr. Hans Martin Schmid. Semester and Master projects.
Short CV	Aug. 2011 – present: Senior research associate (Oberassistent), ETH Zürich, Switzerland Aug. 2009 – Jul. 2011: Postdoctoral researcher (Assistent), ETH Zürich, Switzerland Sep. 2007 - Aug. 2009: Senior Associate Management Consultant, McKinsey & Company, Germany Apr. 2004 - Jul. 2007: Ph.D. in Astronomy, Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, Germany Apr. 1999 - Apr. 2004: Diploma in Physics, University of Heidelberg, Germany
Honors/Awards	Mar. 2013 - present: Liaison professor of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung Feb. 2013 - present: Lecturer for the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes Jul. 2007: PhD awarded with distinction (summa cum laude) 2004 - 2007: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung PhD scholarship for intellectually gifted students 2000 - 2004: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung student scholarship for intellectually gifted students
Press releases	Feb. 2013: "The Birth of a Giant Planet?" (ESO release, ETH life article) Jul. 2010: "New Mode for VLT's NACO to Image Exoplanets" (ESO release, ETH life article)
Publications	Please click here for comprehensive list of scientific publications. Selection of recent publications in refereed journals: Quanz et al. (2013b): "Gaps in the HD169142 protoplanetary disk revealed by polarimetric imaging: Signs of ongoing planet formation?" (link) Quanz et al. (2013a): "A Young Protoplanet Candidate Embedded in the Circumstellar Disk of HD 100546" (link) Amara & Quanz (2012): "PynPoint: An Image Processing Package for Finding Exoplanets" (link) Quanz et al. (2012c): "Searching for young Jupiter analogs around AP Col: L-band high-contrast imaging of the closest pre-main sequence star" (link) Quanz et al. (2012b): "Direct imaging constraints on planet populations detected by microlensing" (link) Quanz et al. (2012a): "Resolving the inner regions of the HD 97048 circumstellar disk with VLT/NACO polarimetric differential imaging" (link) Parker & Quanz (2012): "The effects of dynamical interactions on planets in young substructured star clusters" (link) Quanz et al. (2011b): "Very Large Telescope/NACO Polarimetric Differential Imaging of HD100546—Disk Structure and Dust Grain Properties between 10 and 140 AU" (link) Quanz et al. (2011a):"Searching for Gas Giant Planets on Solar System Scales: VLT NACO/APP Observations of the Debris Disk Host Stars HD172555 and HD115892" (link) Quanz et al. (2010):"First Results from Very Large Telescope NACO Apodizing Phase Plate: 4 Micron Images of The Exoplanet beta Pictoris" (link)

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