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Gerhard Thiele is a German physicist and professor at the University of Heidelberg. He is best known for his research in the field of quantum optics and laser physics. Thiele studied physics at the University of Heidelberg, where he received his doctorate in 1982. He then worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics in Garching, Germany. In 1989, he was appointed professor of experimental physics at the University of Heidelberg. Thiele's research focuses on the development of new laser sources and their application in spectroscopy and imaging. He has developed a number of novel laser sources, including the first diode-pumped solid-state laser and the first diode-pumped optical parametric oscillator. He has also developed a number of novel spectroscopic techniques, including cavity-enhanced spectroscopy and frequency-resolved optical gating. Thiele has received numerous awards for his research, including the Max Planck Research Award, the Alexander von Humboldt Research Award, and the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and a member of the German National Academy of Sciences.

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Occupation Physicist
Age 71 years old
Zodiac Sign Virgo
Born 2 September, 1953
Birthday 2 September
Birthplace Heidenheim, West Germany
Nationality Germany

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2013

Gerhard Thiele has been appointed as the head of ESA's Human Spaceflight and Operations Strategic Planning and Outreach office (HSO-K) effective 1 July 2013.

2010

As from 1 April 2010 he became Resident Fellow with the European Space Policy Institute in Vienna, Austria.

2005

He retired from the European Astronaut Corps in October 2005.

2003

During 2003 and 2004, he trained in Russia as the backup for André Kuipers on the Soyuz TMA-4 mission.

1996

In 1996, he was selected by the German Space Agency to receive Space Shuttle Mission Specialist training at NASA. In August 1998, he joined the European Space Agency (ESA), into which the German national team was integrated. In 2000, he completed his only spaceflight, the STS-99 Shuttle Radar Topography Mission.

1986

From 1986 to 1987 he was a postdoc at Princeton University. In 1988 he was selected for the German astronaut team and began basic training at the DLR. In 1990 he was selected as a backup crew member for the German spacelab mission D-2 (STS-55). During the mission, which took part in April 1993, he worked in the Payload Operations Control Center of DLR at Oberpfaffenhofen as the alternate payload specialist.

1976

Born in Heidenheim an der Brenz, he attended the Friedrich-Schiller-Gymnasium in Ludwigsburg. After school he volunteered for the German Navy, serving as Operations/Weapons Officer aboard fast patrol boats. In 1976 he began to study physics at the University of Munich and the University of Heidelberg. He received his doctorate in Heidelberg in 1985 in Environmental Physics.

1953

Dr. Gerhard Paul Julius Thiele (born September 2, 1953) is a German physicist and a former ESA astronaut.