Curriculum Vitae

Dr. Cornelia Beatrix Wunderer
Space Science Laboratory, UC Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 94720, USA

email: wunderer-at-ssl.berkeley.edu

2003	PhD in Physics, Technical University of Munich, Germany Thesis: "Imaging with the Test Setup for the Coded-Mask INTEGRAL Spectrometer SPI - Performance of a Coded Aperture Gamma-Ray Telescope at 60 keV - 8 MeV" (Advisor: Prof. Dr. Volker Schoenfelder)
1997	Master of Science in Physics, University of New Hampshire Thesis: "Feasibility Study of SONTRAC - a Neutron Tracking Telescope for Solar, Atmospheric, and other Applications" (Advisor: Prof. Dr. James M. Ryan)
1995	Vordiplom, Technical University of Munich

2006-	Senior Fellow at the Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley
2003-2006	Charles H. Townes Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of California, Berkeley
2001-2003	INTEGRAL/SPI project scientist at the Max-Planck-Institute for extraterrestrial Physics, Garching, Germany
1998-2001	PhD-candidate Researcher at the Max-Planck-Institute for extraterrestrial Physics, Garching, Germany
1996-1997	Research Assistant at the Space Science Center, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, USA

2003-2006	Charles H. Townes Prize Postdoctoral Fellowship in Experimental Astrophysics, University of California at Berkeley
1993-1998	Scholarship from the "Bayerische Begabtenfoerderung"
1993-1998	Scholarship from the "Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes"

2001-	Physikalische Gesellschaft
2004-	American Astronomical Society

Focal Plane instrumentation design for a Gamma-Ray Lens mission (European Gamma-Ray Imager GRI)
ACT instrument sensitivity predictions and science simulations; Co-Chair of the ACT Simulation Group and participation in the ACT vision Mission Study Executive Committee
Background modeling and active CsI shield design for NuSTAR
RHESSI and INTEGRAL/SPI data analysis, both in the context of galactic 26Al emission and in the context of short flares in GRBs that can be used to put lower limits on the quantum gravity energy scale
Modeling of instrumental background in the Ge detectors of the solar spectroscopy mission RHESSI
Conception, Planning, design, and implementation of an Imaging Test Setup for the INTEGRAL Spectrometer SPI, and subsequent characterization of its imaging properties
Comparative performance testing of the two baseline imaging tools foreseen for SPI
Development and testing of and support for the INTEGRAL Spectrometer SPI's BGO Anticoincidence
Components selection for, testing, and calibration of a fiber-scintillator based high-energy neutron imaging telescope
Organization of the SSL Colloquium 2004-2007
Peer Reviewer on NASA panels
Referee for Transactions on Nuclear Science, Astrophysical Journal, Experimental Astronomy

2004-2005	INTEGRAL AO-2: Using GRBs to test Lorentz Invariance and Quantum Gravity
2005-2006	INTEGRAL AO-3: Using GRBs to test Lorentz Invariance and Quantum Gravity
2007-2008	INTEGRAL AO-5: Using GRBs to test Lorentz Invariance and Quantum Gravity
2005-2008	NASA APRA ("SR&T"): Quartz Laue Lenses for Gamma-Ray Astronomy - A Deeper Look into the Fires of Creation

2004-2005	Advanced Compton Telescope Vision Mission Study
2002-	INTEGRAL Spectrometer SPI