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Physics studies at Wuerzburg University in Germany from 1979 -- 1983
Pre-diploma (Vordiplom) in physics in July 1981
Practicum at DESY (Deutsches Elektronen Sychnrotron), Aug. - Oct. 1981
Physics Diploma eligibility, July 1983
Reception of Fulbright Grant, 1983
Graduate physics at Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, Sep. 1983 - Oct. 1985
Teaching Assistant at the Department of Physics, Sep. 1983 - June 1984
Research Assistant at the Department of Physics, Juli 1984 - Sept 1985
Master of Science in Physics, Sep, 1985 (Commencement June 1986) Thesis: K.S. Krane & N.S. Schulz Phys. Rev. C, 1988, 37, p. 747.
Physics Diploma at LMU Munich in Germany, Jan. 1986
PhD thesis at MPE, on the topic "Color-Color Photometry and Spectral Fitting of X-ray Spectra of LMXBs", advisors: Profs. J. Truemper & G. Hasinger, Feb. 1989
Post-PhD grant, June 1989 - Nov. 1989
Thesis paper I:
Spectral classification of LMXB energy spectra with color-color diagrams
N.S.Schulz, G.Hasinger, & J.Truemper
Astronomy and Astrophysics, 1989, 225, p.48.
PhD exam at the Department of Physics at LMU, Februar 1990
Thesis paper II:
Compton Modelling of Spectral Variations Observed in Z-Sources
N.S.Schulz & R.A.M.J.Wijers
Astronomy and Astrophysics, 1993, 273, p. 123.
Scientific Programmer for the ROSAT project EXSAS , Jan. 1990 - May 1990
Assistant Telescope Scientist for XMM-Newton at MPE, May 1990 - Nov. 1995
Since Dec. 1995: Research Scientist at the MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics & Space Research
NASA Group Achievement Award for: Calibration of Chandra instruments, June 2001
Contract award for book project FROM DUST TO STARS in Sept. 2002 with Springer Publishing (Heidelberg, London, New York, Tokyo) and PRAXIS Publishing Ltd.(London)
NASA Group Achievement Award for: Solving the Chandra ACIS CTI problem, July 2003
Organisation, chair and co-chair of the sections Observations of Neutron Stars and Black Holes with Chandra & XMM 10th Marcell Grossmann Meeting on General Relativityat Rio de Janeiro, July 2003
Publication date of my book on star formation
FROM DUST TO STARS
is Feb. 11, 2005
Science Organizing Committee Member for the
Star Formation in the Era of Three Great Observatories
Meeting, July 13 -- 15, 2005
Organisation, chair and co-chair of the sections
Observations of Neutron Stars and Black Holes with Chandra & XMM
11th Marcell Grossmann Meeting on General Relativityat
Berlin, July 2006 Organisation, chair and co-chair of the section
Observations from High Energy Astrophysics Satellites
12th Marcell Grossmann Meeting on General Relativityat
Paris, July 2009Other Personal Records
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