Dr. Adrian Michael Glauser

Research Activities
For the past two decades I have been heavily involved in the design, development and calibration of infrared instruments for the word's largest telescopes, both on ground and in space. The fascination of astronomical instrumentation comes from the fundamental science questions that require dedicated measurements and therefore specific instruments. To do so, a very broad multi-disciplanery understanding is required that connects questions about the "stars" to solutions with the "screws". However, my main scientific interest are in the field of exoplanets and together with Sascha Quanz I like to find an answer to the question "Is there life out there, or how unique is our Earth".

I have the priviledge to lead hardware contributions and calibration support to instruments like MIRI/JWST, SPIRE/Herschel, Euclid, ERIS/VLT and now METIS/ELT. I led concept studies for the EChO spectrometer instrument (now Ariel) and ExoMOS. Now, I am acting as the Lead Systems Engineer for the METIS/ELT project and lead the Laboratory for Astronomical Instrumentation in the Exoplanet and Habitability research group. In that role I am leading one of our major in-house projects NICE for LIFE.

Short CV
Research experience:

2014 - Now: ETH Zurich
- Head of Laboratory for Astronomical Instrumentation
- Since 2022: Senior Scientist, before Senior Research Associate  

2012 - 2013: Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, Heidelberg
- EChO System Manager
- VLTI/Gravity local project manager

2011 - 2012: UK Astronomy Technology Centre and ETH Zurich
- Senior research associate / JWST-MIRI Swiss National Project Manager

2008 - 2011: UK Astronomy Technology Centre and ETH Zurich
- PostDoc / JWST/MIRI Swiss National Project Manager

2007 - 2008: PSI Switzerland
- National Project Manager MIRI/JWST

2003 - 2006: PSI-Switzerland
- PhD. Position

2001 - 2003: CERN, Geneva
- Assistant ATHENA experiment

Project involvements:

LIFE
- Co-PI of the LIFE initiative together with Sascha Quanz
- PI of NICE

JWST MIRI: 2003 - present
- Swiss Co-I and Science Team Member
- Swiss National Project Manager, responsible for the Swiss hardware contribution
- Project Scientist, involved in instrumental test and calibration campaign
- MIRI Operations System Engineer

ELT Metis: 2014 - present
- Lead Systems Engineer
- Local project manager and system engineer (until 2022)

VLT ERIS: 2014 - 2022
- Local project manager and system engineer

Gravity: 2013
- Local project manager and system engineer

EChO: 2012 - 2013
- System Manager and lead of the technical study of the instrument consortium

Herschel Spire 2009 - 2011
- Member of the Spire GT-time science program
- Member of the Spire pipeline software team

Euclid 2009 - 2011
- Local project manager and Instrument Scientist for the VIS shutter mechanism

Education:

Ph.D. in Instrumental Astrophysics, ETH Zurich Sep. 2008

MSci in Experimental Particle Physics, Univ. Zurich Mar 2003

Publications
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ORCID