About Me
WHAT I DID SO FAR
I am currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Laboratory for Space Research at Hong Kong University. Previously I held the position of a Postdoctoral Researcher at Princeton University in the Department of Astrophysical Sciences. I graduated as a Master at Potsdam University (Germany) with the Major in Physics and Minors in Astronomy and Computer Science. After my PhD in Physics and Astronomy at Macquarie University in Sydney (Australia) I went on to work as a Research Scholar at National Central University (Taiwan) and Princeton University (USA). I have authored and co-authored many publications in major peer-reviewed Scientific Journals and gave Talks at a number of International Conferences. My experience in Teaching, Supervising Students, Private Tutoring, writing Scientific Articles, and dealing with Application Procedures has given me deep insights into how to be successful at Universities, and I am more than willing to share these insights with you.
My CV
POSTDOCTORAL FELLOW, LABORATORY FOR SPACE RESEARCH, HONG KONG UNIVERSITY (S.A.R., CHINA)
JUNE 2018 - CURRENT
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Curating the HASH Database of Planetary Nebulae
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Teaching lectures
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Research on late stages of stellar evolution
POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCH ASSOCIATE, DEPARTMENT OF ASTROPHYSICAL SCIENCES, PRINCETON UNIVERSITY (USA)
JUNE 2014 - AUGUST 2017
Developed the Data-Reduction Pipeline for the 2,400 fiber Prime Focus Spectrograph for the 8.2m Subaru Telescope on Mauna Kea (Hawaii)
Officer in the Postdoc Council
Taught College Courses in Physics, Mathematics, and Astronomy in County, State, and Federal Prisons under the auspices of Princeton University
Facilitated Public Observing Nights
POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCHER, GRADUATE INSTITUTE OF ASTRONOMY, NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY (TAIWAN)
JANUARY 2012 - MAY 2014
Developed the Data Reduction Pipeline for the Spectral Energy Distribution Machine, an Integral Field Spectrograph for the fast classification of Supernovae and other Transient Objects at the 60" Telescope situated at Mt. Palomar (California, USA)
Supervised Summer Students
ASTRONOMY IT SUPPORTER, RESEARCH CENTRE FOR ASTRONOMY, ASTROPHYSICS AND ASTROPHOTONICS, MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY (AUSTRALIA)
NOVEMBER 2011 - JANUARY 2012
Dealt with wide range of computer hardware and software problems
SENIOR RESEARCH OFFICER, RESEARCH CENTRE FOR ASTRONOMY, ASTROPHYSICS AND ASTROPHOTONICS, MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY (AUSTRALIA)
SEPTEMBER 2011 - OCTOBER 2011
Investigated GPU programming as possible solution to speed up data-reduction tasks
Developed state-of-the-art C++ computer program for the optimal wavelength calibration of the UCLES Spectrograph at the 3.9m Anglo-Australian Telescope (doubled the wavelength accuracy)
SUPPORT ASTRONOMER, AUSTRALIAN ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATORY (AUSTRALIA)
JULY 2008 - DECEMBER 2010
Observed 75 nights at the 1.2m UK Schmidt Telescope in support of the RAdial Velocity Experiment (RAVE), the first Major Spectroscopic Survey of Galactic Stars in the Southern Hemisphere
ASSISTANT RESEARCHER, STELLAR ACTIVITY GROUP, ASTROPHYSICAL INSTITUTE POTSDAM (GERMANY)
JULY 2000 - AUGUST 2007
Developed the Data Reduction Pipeline for the STELLA Echelle Spectrograph (SES), now mounted to the 1.2m STELLA Robotic Telescope (Teide Observatory, Teneriffe, Canary Islands, Spain)
Reduced many stellar spectra and analyzed the data
Implemented latest optimal-extraction algorithms in C++
ASSISTANT RESEARCHER, STELLAR MAGNETO-HYDRODYNAMICS GROUP, ASTROPHYSICAL INSTITUTE POTSDAM (GERMANY)
JULY 1998 - JUNE 2000
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Handled such tasks as plotting data, writing documentations, preparing lectures
PRIVATE TUTOR, ABACUS PRIVATE TUTORING (GERMANY)
MARCH 2006 - AUGUST 2007
Tutored Highschool students in Mathematics and Physics
Education
Publications
TRANSFORMATIONS FROM STANDARD PHOTOMETRIC SYSTEMS TO THE GAIA PASSBANDS
JOURNAL OF PHYSICS: CONFERENCE SERIES, 2020
A. Ritter, C. Huang
THE SED MACHINE: A ROBOTIC SPECTROGRAPH FOR FAST TRANSIENT CLASSIFICATION
PUBLICATIONS OF THE ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY OF THE PACIFIC, 2018
N. Blagorodnova, J. D. Neill, R. Walters, S. R. Kulkarni, C. Fremling, S. Ben-Ami, R. G. Dekany, J. R. Fucik, N. Konidaris, R. Nash, C.-C. Ngeow, E. O. Ofek, D. O’ Sullivan, R. Quimby, A. Ritter, K. E. Vyhmeister
ASTRONOMICAL JOURNAL, 2017
L. Whitesides, R. Lunnan, M. M. Kasliwal, D. A.Perley, A. Corsi, S. B. Cenko, N. Blagorodnova, Y. Cao, D. O. Cook, G. B. Doran, C. Fremling, F. Masci, E. Karamehmetoglu, S. R. Kulkarni, P. E. Nugent, A. Ritter , A. Rubin, J. Sollerman, F.Taddia, P.Vreeswijk, P.Wozniak
PUBLICATIONS OF THE ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY OF THE PACIFIC, 2017
E. A. Hyde, D. M. Russel, A. Ritter, M. D. Filipovic, L. Kaper, K. Grieve, A. O'Brian, R. Cooke
ASTRONOMICAL JOURNAL, 2017
A. Kunder, G. Kordopatis, M. Steinmetz, T. Zwitter, P. J. McMillan, L. Casagrande, H. Enke, J. Wojno, M. Valentini, C. Chiappini, G. Matijevic, A. Siviero, P. de Laverny, A. Recio-Blanco, A. Bijaoui, R. F. G. Wyse, J. Binney, E. K. Grebel, A. Helmi, P. Jofre, G. Gilmore, A. Siebert, B. Famaey, O. Bienayme, B. K. Gibson, K. C. Freeman, J. F. Navarro, U. Munari, G. M. Seabroke, B. Anguiano, M. Zerjal, I. Minchev, W. Reid, J. Bland-Hawthorn, J. Kos, S. Sharma, F. Watson, Q. A. Parker, R. Scholz, D. Burton, P. Cass, M. Hartley, K. Fiegert, M. Stupar, A. Ritter , K. Hawkins, O. Gerhard, W. J. Chaplin, G. R. Davies, Y. P. Elsworth, M. N. Lund, A. Miglio, and B. Mosser
ASTRONOMICAL JOURNAL, 2016
P.-C. Yu, C.-C. Lin, H.-W. Lin, C.-D. Lee, N. Konidaris, C.-C. Ngeow, W.-H. Ip, W.-P. Chen, H.-C. Chen, M. A. Malkan, C.-K. Chang, R. Laher, L-C. Huang, Y.-C. Cheng, R. Edelson, A. Ritter , R. Quimby, S. Ben-Ami, E. O. Ofek, J. Surace, S. R. Kulkarni
SPIE, 2016
N. Tamura, N. Takato, A. Shimono, Y. Moritani, K. Yabe, Y. Ishizuka, A. Ueda, Y. Kamata, H. Aghazarian, S. Arnouts, G. Barban, R. H. Barkhouser, R. C. Borges, D. F. Braun, M. A. Carr, P.-Y. Chabaud, Y.-C. Chang, H.-Y. Chen, M. Chiba, R. C. Y. Chou, Y.-H. Chu, J. Cohen, R. P. de Almeida, A. C. de Oliveira, L. S. de Oliveira, R. G. Dekany, K. Dohlen, J. B. dos Santos, L. H. dos Santos, R. Ellis, M. Fabricius, D. Ferrand, D. Ferreira, M. Golebiowski, J. E. Greene, J. Gross, J. E. Gunn, R. Hammond, A. Harding, M. Hart, T. M. Heckman, C. M. Hirata, P. Ho, S. C. Hope, L. Hovland, S.-F. Hsu, Y.-S. Hu, P.-J. Huang, M. Jaquet, Y. Jing, J. Karr, M. Kimura, M. E. King, E. Komatsu, V. Le Brun, O. Le Fevre, A. Le Fur, D. Le Mignant, H.-H. Ling, C. P. Loomis, R. H. Lupton, F. Madec, P. Mao, L. S. Marrara, C. Mendes de Oliveira, Y. Minowa, C. Morantz, H. Murayama, G. J. Murray, Y. Ohyama, J. Orndor, S. Pascal, J. M. Pereira, D. Reiley, M. Reinecke, A. Ritter , M. Roberts, M. A. Schwochert, M. D. Seiert, S. A. Smee, L. Sodre, D. N. Spergel, A. J. Steinkraus, M. A. Strauss, C. Surace, Y. Suto, N. Suzuki, J. Swinbank, P. J. Tait, M. Takada, T. Tamura, Y. Tanaka, L. Tresse, O. Verducci, D. Vibert, C. Vidal, S.-Y. Wang, C.-Y. Wen, C.-H. Yan, N. Yasuda
PUBLICATIONS OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY, 2014
A. Ritter, E. Hyde, Q. A. Parker
THE ASTRONOMER'S TELEGRAM, 2014
N. Konidaris, R. Quimby, S. Ben-Ami, C. C. Ngeow, E. Ofek, A. Ritter , Y. C. Cheng, P. C. Yu
THE ASTRONOMER'S TELEGRAM, 2014
N. Konidaris, R. Quimby, S. Ben-Ami, C. C. Ngeow, E. Ofek, A. Ritter
IAU SYMPOSIUM 290, 2014
C.-C. Ngeow, N. Konidaris, R. Quimby, A. Ritter , A.-R. Rudy, E. Lin, S. Ben-Ami
SETTING THE SCENE FOR GAIA AND LAMOST - THE CURRENT AND NEXT GENERATION OF SURVEYS AND MODELS, PROCEEDINGS OF THE INTERNATIONAL ASTRONOMICAL UNION, 2014
A. Ritter, Q. A. Parker
SETTING THE SCENE FOR GAIA AND LAMOST - THE CURRENT AND NEXT GENERATION OF SURVEYS AND MODELS, PROCEEDINGS OF THE INTERNATIONAL ASTRONOMICAL UNION, 2014
A. Ritter, N. Konidaris, C. C. Ngeow, R. Quimby, S. Ben-Ami
CONTRIBUTIONS OF THE ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATORY SKALNATE PLESO, 2013
A. Ritter, C.C. Ngeow, N. Konidaris, R. Quimby, S. Ben-Ami
ASTRONOMICAL JOURNAL, 2013
G. Kordopatis, G. Gilmore,
M. Steinmetz, C. Boeche, G. M. Seabroke, A. Siebert, T. Zwitter, J. Binney, P. de Laverny, A. Recio-Blanco, M. E. K. Williams, T. Pi, H. Enke, S. Roeser, A. Bijaoui, R. F. G. Wyse, K. Freeman, U. Munari, I. Carrillo, B. Anguiano, D. Burton, R. Campbell, C. J. P. Cass, K. Fiegert, M. Hartley, Q. A. Parker, W. Reid, A. Ritter , K. S. Russell, M. Stupar, F. G. Watson, O. Bienayme, J. Bland-Hawthorn, O. Gerhard, B. K. Gibson, E. K. Grebel, A. Helmi, J. F. Navarro, C. Conrad, B. Famaey, C. Faure, A. Just, J. Kos, G. Matijevic, P. J. McMillan, I. Minchev, R. Scholz, S. Sharma, A. Siviero, E. Wylie de Boer, and M. Zerjal
SPIE CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS, 2012
S. Ben-Ami, N. Konidaris, R. Quimby, J. T. C. Davis, C. C. Ngeow, A. Ritter , A. Rudy
ASTRONOMICAL JOURNAL, 2011
A. Siebert, M. E. K. Williams, A. Siviero, W. Reid, C. Boeche, M. Steinmetz, J. Fulbright, U. Munari, T. Zwitter, F. G. Watson, R. F. G. Wyse, R. S. de Jong, H. Enke, B. Anguiano, D. Burton, C. J. P. Cass, K. Fiegert, M. Hartley, A. Ritter , K. S. Russel, M. Stupar, O. Bienayme, K. C. Freeman, G. Gilmore, E. K. Grebel, A. Helmi, J. F. Navarro, J. Binney, J. Bland-Hawthorn, R. Campbell, B. Famaey, O. Gerhard, B. K. Gibson, G. Matijevic, Q. A. Parker, G. M. Seabroke, S. Sharma, M. C. Smith, E. Wylie-de Boer
ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS, 2006
I. Savanov, S. Hubrig, G. Mathys, A. Ritter , and D. W. Kurtz
ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS, 2005
K. G. Strassmeier, J. B. Rice, A. Ritter , M. Kuker, G. A. J. Hussain, S. Hubrig, and R. Shobbrook
ASTRONOMISCHE NACHRICHTEN, 2004
A. Ritter and A. Washuettl
ASTRONOMISCHE NACHRICHTEN, 2004
K. G. Strassmeier, T. Granzer, M. Weber, M. Woche, M. I. Andersen, J. Bartus, S.-M. Bauer, F. Dionies, E. Popow, T. Fechner, G. Hildebrandt, A. Washuettl, A. Ritter , A. Schwope, A. Staude, J. Paschke, P. A. Stolz, M. Serre-Ricart, T. De La Rosa, R. Arnay,
EXOTIC STARS AS CHALLENGES TO EVOLUTION, IAU COLL. 187, ASP CONFERENCE SERIES
S. Hubrig, C. R. Cowley, S. Bagnulo, G. Mathys, A. Ritter, G.M. Wahlgren
1ST POTSDAM THINKSHOP ON SUNSPOTS AND STARSPOTS, CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS, 2002
K. G. Strassmeier, T. Granzer, M. Weber, M. Woche, A. Washuettl, S.-M. Bauer, J. Paschke, G. Hildebrandt, A. Ritter , J. H. M. M. Schmidt, A. Hempelmann, and R. Arnay
What I Offer
The services I offer are unique in Taiwan and are designed to give your high school teenager the best possible chance to get accepted into or awarded a scholarship at one of the World’s best Universities, like Princeton, Harvard, Yale, Stanford,...
Suitable Majors:
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Physics
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Astronomy
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Mathematics
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Computer Science
Research projects are related to the comparison of the GAIA Survey to the Galaxia Model of the Galaxy (Sharma et al. 2011) looking for systematic discrepancies and new Stellar Streams (disrupted galaxies which got eaten by the Milky Way). Possible small research projects for High School or Undergraduate University Students include:
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Develop a new transformation from the Johnson-Cousins Photometric System to the GAIA G color
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Identify known and new members of already known Stellar Streams in the GAIA data
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Investigate the selection effects in the GAIA Survey
EDUCATIONAL CONSULTING & COUNSELING
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SMALL RESEARCH PROJECTS
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* PRESENT A POSTER OR A TALK AT AN INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE AND
PUBLISH A CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS PAPER AS THE FIRST AUTHOR OR CO-AUTHOR
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* DRAMATICALLY INCREASE YOUR CHANCES OF WINNING A SCHOLARSHIP!
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