Just a very short sketch of my career related CV

• Matura (baccalaureat) with excellence in Vienna, June 1987
• Zivildienst at the Red Cross Vienna 1987/1988
• Studies at the University of Vienna since September 1988
• March 1994: finished Master's Degree in Astronomy with excellence
• April 1996: finished Master's Degree in Physics with excellence
• December 1997: finished Doctor's Degree in Mathematics with excellence
• Academic career (positions after having finished university studies)
• January 1998 - June 2002: research associate (postdoc), Univ. of Vienna, Austria
• July 2002 - September 2003: PPARC research associate (postdoc), Queen Mary, Univ. of London, UK
• October 2003 - February 2009: research associate (senior postdoc) at MPI for Astrophysics, Germany
• February 2002, November 2003, May 2007, March - August 2009: invited visitor
  (with the status of an astronome) at the Observatoire de Paris, Section de Meudon, France


• September 2009 - June 2016: independent scientist (senior postdoc, FWF project leader)
  at the Faculty of Mathematics, University of Vienna, Austria
• July 2016 - March 2017: independent scientist (senior postdoc, FWF project leader)
  at the Wolfgang Pauli Institute (WPI), Vienna (FWF project leader at Univ. of Vienna)
  
  
• April 2017 - March 2019: team leader and FWF project leader at the Institute for Astrophysics,
  Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany
• April 2019 - June 2020: senior researcher at MPI for Solar System Research, Göttingen, Germany
  (external FWF project leader at the Institute for Astrophysics,
  Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany, till December 2019)


• since July 2020: senior lecturer / researcher (permanent) at the Dept. Applied Mathematics and Physics,
  Univ. of Appl. Sciences Technikum Wien, Vienna, Austria,
  
• and FWF project leader (till Dec. 2024) as well as
  Associate Member (since 2023) at the Wolfgang Pauli Institute (WPI), Vienna, Austria
  and Senior Research Fellow status (since 2023) at the Faculty of Mathematics, Univ. of Vienna, Austria
• 26 April 2023: promotion to Fachhochschulprofessor (FH-Prof.) at the
  Univ. of Appl. Sciences Technikum Wien, Vienna, Austria
• Other career related advancements
• December 2004 - December 2007: Habilitand at the Faculty of Physics, TU Munich
• 2 April 2008: Habilitation in Theoretical Physics, Faculty of Physics, TU Munich
• 30 June 2008: Privatdozent (PD) in Theoretical Physics, Faculty of Physics, TU Munich

Publications since 1994

• 4 theses
• co-editor of 3 proceedings and 1 edited monograph
• 62 publications in refereed journals (+3 submitted +3 in prep.)
• 4 refereed monograph reviews
• 41 major (14 refereed) and 52 smaller published conference contributions, panel summaries
  and technical reports and preprints (abstracts and formal IAU working group reports not included)
• Download detailed list in English (ps file or pdf file)
• Alternatively download detailed list in German (ps file or pdf file)


• ADS citation statistics (Classic query site of Astrophysics Data System)
• ISI web of Knowledge statistics (requires ISI WoK access permissions):
  -> Search -> Author: Kupka F*; Current Limits: [Change Limits and Settings]:
  From 1994 to current year; only SCI-EXPANDED
  -> Search -> use "sort by" and other tools
• Google Scholar statistics (includes mathematical publications and some talks, otherwise less complete,
  misidentifications filtered, links to citations removed due to many misidentifications)
• SCOPUS statistics (requires SCOPUS access, similar to IS WoK it is also less complete than ADS)

Invited talks and reviews since 1998

• 42 invited talks including 6 reviews on 37 international conferences (1 virtual)
• 1 invited lecture series on 1 international scientific school
• 47 invited seminar talks given during 41 visits (+3 virtual) participations to universities and
  observatories (including talks for faculty positions)
• 8 invited talks in open seminar series, 1 invited public lecture
• Download detailed list in English (ps file or pdf file)
• Download detailed list in German (ps file or pdf file)

Contributed talks and early invited talks, both since 1993

• 3 invited talks on 3 international conferences and
• 2 invited seminar talks during 2 visits to universities abroad prior to 1998, and
• 21 contributed talks (1 virtual) during 20 international conferences since 1993
• Download detailed list in English (ps file or pdf file)
• Download detailed list in German (ps file or pdf file)

Prizes and distinctions

• March 1998: Promotio sub auspiciis praesidentis rei publicae
• December 1998: Honoration Prize of the Austrian Ministery of Sciences

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