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4 unusual facts about Pavel Kroupa


Pavel Kroupa

Afterwards Kroupa worked until 2000 in astronomical research groups at Heidelberg University and at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, before he went to the University of Kiel and earned his Habilitation there.

His research work began in 1987 in Australia with an investigation of Proxima Centauri.

In 1988 he won the Isaac Newton scholarship at the University of Cambridge and in 1992 the senior Rouse Ball research scholarship at Trinity College, Cambridge and attained a doctorate in England in 1992 with a dissertation on the distribution of low mass stars in the Milky Way.

Pavel Kroupa (born 24 September 1963 in Jindřichův Hradec, Czechoslovakia) is an Australian astrophysicist and professor at the University of Bonn.



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