Prof. Dr. Bruno Binggeli
Department of Physics
University of Basel
Klingelbergstrasse 82
CH-4056 Basel
office 4.33
tel.: +41 (0)61 267 3783
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personal page: www.brunobinggeli.ch
administrative assistant
Francois Erkadoo
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tel.: ++41 (0)61 267 3750
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Short Biography
Diploma in theoretical physics, University of Basel, 1977.
PhD in astronomy ("The Shape and Orientation of Clusters of Galaxies",
supervisor: Prof. G. A. Tammann), University of Basel, 1981.
Swiss NF fellow at Carnegie Observatories, Pasadena, USA, 1981-83.
Since then, with interruptions, assistant at the Astronomical Institute, University of Basel.
1988-90: Visiting fellow at Osservatorio astrofisico di Arcetri, Florence, Italy.
1994 Habilitation in astronomy, University of Basel
Titularprofessor since 2001
Research Summary
Bruno Binggeli has worked extensively on the morphology, photometry, and distribution of dwarf galaxies in clusters of galaxies and in the field. The goal of this research is to understand the evolutionary processes that govern the structure of low-mass galaxies, and especially the origin of dwarf ellipticals. More recently, the focus of his research interests has shifted to very nearby, resolved stellar systems, and to wide binary stars in the Milky Way Galaxy.
Publications
- Binggeli, B., Sandage, A., Tammann, G. A., "Studies of the Virgo Cluster. II. A Catalog of 2096 Galaxies in the Virgo Cluster Area", Astron. J. 90, 1681 (1985).
- Binggeli, B., Sandage, A., Tammann, G. A., "The Luminosity Function of Galaxies", Ann. Rev. Astron. Astrophys. 26, 509 (1988).
- Ferguson, H. C., Binggeli, B., "Dwarf Elliptical Galaxies", A&A Rev. 6, 6 (1994).
- Jerjen, H., Binggeli, B., Barazza, F., "Distances, Metallicities, and Ages of Dwarf Elliptical Galaxies in the Virgo Cluster from Surface Brightness Fluctuations", Astron. J. 127, 771 (2004).
- Jerjen, H., Binggeli, B. (eds.), "Near-field Cosmology with Dwarf Elliptical Galaxies", IAU Colloquium No. 198, Cambridge University Press, 2005.