Ruth Grützbauch

Ruth Grützbauch (born 3 October 1978) is an Austrian astronomer, planetarium director and science communicator. After earning her doctoral degree in 2007, she conducted extragalactic research until 2013, and worked as an educator and science communicator afterwards. Since 2017, she runs the Public Space pop-up planetarium.

Ruth Grützbauch
Grützbauch in 2022
Pronunciation
  • IPA: [ʁuːt ˈɡʁʏt͡sˌ​baʊ̯x]
Born (1978-10-03) 3 October 1978
Vienna, Austria
EducationUniversity of Vienna (PhD, 2007)
Known forPublic Space, the pop-up planetarium
Scientific career
FieldsExtragalactic astronomy
Institutions
Websitepublicspace.at
Signature

Biography

Grützbauch was born as the youngest of six children in the Viennese district of Währing and completed her Matura at a school in Simmering. In 1996, she began to study astronomy at the University of Vienna and obtained her diploma in 2003.[1] During her subsequent doctorate, she gained international experience at the University of Nottingham in England, the Padua Observatory in Italy, and the La Silla Observatory in Chile. In 2007, she was awarded the academic degree Dr. rer. nat. after completing her dissertation on dwarf galaxies.[2]

As a postdoc, Grützbauch did extragalactic research at the University of Nottingham and the University of Lisbon, and observed at the United Kingdom Infrared Telescope in Hawaii.[3][4][5][6] Her h-index is at least 26.[7] In 2013, Grützbauch ended her academic career and became an environmental educator. From 2015 to 2017, she worked as a science communicator at the Jodrell Bank Discovery Centre.[8]

Public Space, the pop-up planetarium

Grützbauch has been known to a broader public since 2017 through her planetarium, Public Space. The inflatable planetarium does not have a fixed location, but is transported by Grützbauch with a cargo bike from her home in Vienna to schools and other event locations.[9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25]

Since 2020, Grützbauch hosts the astronomy podcast Das Universum (English: The Universe) together with celestial mechanic Florian Freistetter. She publishes a different podcast series on the night sky together with Holger Klein.

In 2021, she published Per Lastenrad durch die Galaxis (English: The Cargo Cyclist's Guide to the Galaxy), a popular science book on extragalactic astronomy and her planetarium.[26]

Grützbauch is part of the Science Busters, a science kabarett group founded by Heinz Oberhummer, Martin Puntigam and Werner Gruber. She had worked in their prop department since 2018[27] and made her stage debut in 2021.[28]

Works
  • Per Lastenrad durch die Galaxis. Berlin: Aufbau-Verlag. 2021. ISBN 978-3-351-03893-9.
  • The eventful life of galaxies in low density environments or Evolution of galaxy groups (PhD thesis). University of Vienna. 2007.
  • Galaxien in isolierten Gruppen: Eigenschaften der Gruppenmitglieder und Signaturen gravitativer Wechselwirkungen (Master thesis). University of Vienna. 2003.

References
  1. Galaxien in isolierten Gruppen: Eigenschaften der Gruppenmitglieder und Signaturen gravitativer Wechselwirkungen (Master thesis). University of Vienna. 2003.
  2. The eventful life of galaxies in low density environments or Evolution of galaxy groups (PDF) (PhD thesis). University of Vienna. 2007.
  3. "People". The GOODS NICMOS Survey. Retrieved 16 October 2021.
  4. Grützbauch, Ruth; Conselice, Christopher J.; Varela, Jesús; Bundy, Kevin; Cooper, Michael C.; Skibba, Ramin; Willmer, Christopher N. A. (23 December 2010). "How does galaxy environment matter? The relationship between galaxy environments, colour and stellar mass at 0.4 < z < 1 in the Palomar/DEEP2 survey". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 411 (2): 929–946. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2966.2010.17727.x. ISSN 0035-8711. S2CID 119232134.
  5. Bluck, Asa F. L.; Conselice, Christopher J.; Buitrago, Fernando; Grützbauch, Ruth; Hoyos, Carlos; Mortlock, Alice; Bauer, Amanda E. (13 February 2012). "The Structures and Total (Minor + Major) Merger Histories of Massive Galaxies up to z ~ 3 in the HST GOODS NICMOS Survey: A Possible Solution to the Size Evolution Problem". The Astrophysical Journal. 747 (1): 34. arXiv:1111.5662. Bibcode:2012ApJ...747...34B. doi:10.1088/0004-637X/747/1/34. eISSN 1538-4357. ISSN 0004-637X. S2CID 118361086.
  6. Grützbauch, Ruth; Bauer, Amanda E.; Jørgensen, Inger; Varela, Jesus (23 October 2012). "Erratum: Suppression of star formation in the central 200 kpc of a z=1.4 galaxy cluster". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 428 (1): 923–924. doi:10.1093/mnras/sts025. eISSN 1365-2966. ISSN 0035-8711.
  7. "Grützbauch, Ruth". Astrophysics Data System. Retrieved 16 October 2021.
  8. "Dr. Ruth Grützbauch". Public Space Pop-Up Planetarium. Retrieved 16 October 2021.
  9. Florian Freistetter (14 December 2017). "Sternenhimmel für alle: Das Pop-up Planetarium "Public Space"". Astrodicticum Simplex.
  10. "Aufblasbares Planetarium auf Tour". Österreichischer Rundfunk. 12 February 2018.
  11. Teresa Freudenthaler (25 June 2018). "Pop-Up Planetarium am Rochusmarkt begeisterte". Regionalmedien Austria.
  12. Studio 2. Das aufblasbare Planetarium. 11 October 2021 broadcast. ORF 2
  13. Barbara Schöneberger, Hubertus Meyer-Burckhardt: NDR Talk Show. Astronomin und Autorin Ruth Grützbauch. 15 October 2021 broadcast. Norddeutscher Rundfunk
  14. Gasser, Florian (10 November 2021). "Ruth Grützbauch - Weltall zum Aufpusten". Die Zeit, Nr. 46/2021.
  15. Barbara Stöckl: Stöckl. 28 October 2021 broadcast. ORF 2/3sat
  16. Pirker, Katharina (24 October 2021). "Mobiles Planetarium - In 15 Minuten in die Galaxis reisen". Kronen Zeitung.
  17. Franziska Bechtold (22 October 2021). "Was Teleskope für die Astronomie bedeuten". Futurezone.
  18. Sabrina Glas (16 November 2021). "Mit dem Fahrrad an das Ende des Alls". Salzburger Nachrichten.
  19. Wolfgang Heim: Leute. Astronomin und Galaxien-Forscherin Ruth Grützbauch. 17 November 2021 broadcast. SWR1
  20. "Diese Frau fährt mit dem Lastenrad ins Universum". Hessenschau. 24 October 2021.
  21. Patricia Bartos, Franziska Bechtold (23 October 2021). "Wie ein Teleskop funktioniert und was es so besonders macht". Futurezone.
  22. Karl Urban (29 November 2021). "Kinder stellen die besten Fragen". RiffReporter.
  23. Anna Muhr: #Vienna. Ein Planetarium zum Mitnehmen. 25 January 2021 broadcast. Radio NJOY 91.3
  24. Frank Meyer: Lesart. 29 November 2021 broadcast. Deutschlandfunk Kultur
  25. Nicole Aigner: Mahlzeit Burgenland. Ruth Grützbauch ( Astronomin) zu Gast bei Nicole Aigner. 24 November 2021 broadcast. Radio Burgenland
  26. Habison, Peter (4 December 2021). "Per Lastenrad durch die Galaxis". stem&mint – Space and Science Communications.
  27. Ruth Grützbauch at IMDb
  28. "Bauernsilvester". Science Busters. 5 January 2022.
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