Born in Germany where I studied physics, I also lived and worked in Gainesville, FL, USA, and Moshi, Tanzania. I had the privilege to be involved in a number of exciting projects over the last years. I wrote my PhD thesis on a low-frequency gravitational wave observatory in space. This international space mission—recently chosen by the European Space Agency to be launched in 2034—will revolutionize astronomy.

My experimental background involves lasers (IR, high power), IR optics, electro-optics, space applications, clean room environment, gigahertz electronics, and servo loops. In my free time I play the classic guitar, listen to heavy metal music, visit the fitness studio less often than I want to, love the movies, and play with my Adobe Creative Cloud. Sometimes there are additional larger projects going on to live out my enthusiasm for physics, technology, and science fiction, and to give rein to my creativity. Communicating the process and results of modern science to students and the public around the world is one of my passions.

I am excited to work in an international research group where you constantly meet diverse people and come in contact with intriguing cultures.

Simon Barke
701 SW 62nd Blvd
Apt D-22
32607 Gainesville FL
USA

+1 352 507 9970
mail@simonbarke.com

Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics, Hanover, Germany: “Inter Spacecraft Frequency Distribution for Future Gravitational Wave Observatories.”
 Centre for Quantum Engineering and Space-Time Research (QUEST), Hanover, Germany.
 University of Florida, Department of Physics, Gainesville, FL, USA.
 Leibniz University Hannover, Germany: Dipl.-Phys., MSc equivalent, 1.2.

Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics, Hannover, Germany: design, development, and testing of metrology system breadboard model, under contract by the European Space Agency
 uniKIK, Leibniz JuniorLab, Hannover, Germany: experimental workshops (optics and low temperature physics) at primary schools
 Universities and secondary schools in Tanzania: preparation and supervision of workshops in astronomy and experimental physics for teachers and students.
 ActiVenture, Germany: responsible for project management and public relations, development of team building adventure game in an underground mine.
 LIGO Livingston, LA, USA: Monitoring of the final Science Run (S6) of Enhanced LIGO, a 4 km ground-based gravitational wave detector.
 Various universities, China: Series of talks on gravitational wave astronomy in Shanghai, Wuhan, Nanjing and Beijing.
 Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany: primarily responsible for fundraising, conception and execution of three different public edutainment lectures in experimental physics, 12,000 visitors total.
 Vunjo Secondary School, Moshi, Tanzania: three month external internship, theoretical and experimental physics (Form 4), mathematics (Form 2).
 Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany: Various activities at student labs, improvement of experiments, development of new experiments, teaching.
 Self-employed: full service provider, website design and development for medium-sized companies (e.g. Viessmann Modellspielwaren GmbH).

Gravitational Wave Observatory Designer Development of scientific web application (HTML5/CSS3/JavaScript, Web Components/Polymer, Perl, gnuplot, LaTeX), spacegravity.org/designer.

Eureka-Panel Redesign of Google Chromecast web interface (Perl, HTML5/CSS3/JavaScript), part Eureka ROM (github.com/gulbrillo/Eureka-Panel).

The Gravitational Universe Science theme proposal (20 page Adobe InDesign document, arXiv: 1305.5720), development of related interactive website (elisascience.org/whitepaper), supported by >1000 scientists (incl. Stephen Hawking), winning proposal (European Space Agency).

Press event 1,000 feet underground Premiere of team building adventure game for reporters that resulted in 2 minute TV broadcasting (RTL 2 prime time news, Germany).

clever! (Constantin Entertainment) Development of large-scale experimental setups for educational television show, editorial support and coordination.

Creation of scientific and educational videos Gravity Ink. series (120,000 views total) and comprehensive Athena/eLISA Teaser (8,000 views).

Coordination of exhibitions public talks at trade shows (i. a. IdeenExpo 2011) and conferences (i. a. DPG-AMOP 2013).

Ceremonial address for award presentation Scion DTU Science and Technology Park, Copenhagen, Denmark.