• 1990-1993 BA (Hons) Physics, University of Oxford
• 1993-1996 PhD Astronomy, University of Cambridge
• 1997-1998 Postdoctoral Research Associate, Cavendish Laboratory (Physics Department), University of Cambridge
• 1998-2004 Scientific Staff, Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie, Heidelberg
• 2003 Visiting Scientist, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh
• 2004-2008 Emmy-Noether Research Group Leader, Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie, Heidelberg
• 2008-present Tenured Scientific Staff, Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie, Heidelberg
• 2010 (Feb.-July) Visiting Scholar, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Harvard University

• Member of the Gaia Data Processing and Analysis Consortium (DPAC) Executive (2006-)
• Manager of Gaia Coordination Unit 8 "Astrophysical Parameters" (part of the DPAC) (2005-)
• Member of the Gaia Science Team (2001-2007)
• Co-chair of the Gaia Data Analysis Coordination Committee (2005-2006)
• Leader of the Gaia Classification working group (2001-2005)
• Member of the DIVA Photometry working group (2000-2002)
• Project scientist for the new wide field infrared camera Omega 2000 for the 3.5m telescope at Calar Alto, Spain (1999-2001)
• Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, St Edmund's College, University of Cambridge (1997-1998)

• DLR grant for GAIA DPAC work (2006-2009, 2010-2013)
• Grants as part of: DFG-funded SFB on the Milky Way (2011-2014); EU-funded ITN GREAT (2011-2014)
• Emmy Noether research group (2004-2008)
• Emmy Noether fellowship of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (2002-2004)
• Royal Astronomical Society 1997 Astronomy Prize (second place) awarded for the best Ph.D. theses in the UK
• Studentship of the Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council, UK (1993-1996)

• Grant application refereeing for PPARC, DFG, NSF
• Observing proposal refereeing for ESO and UKIRT
• Refereeing of articles for the journals Astronomy & Astrophysics, Astrophysical Journal, Astrophysics and Space Science, Measurement Science and Technology, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, New Astronomy, Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific and Neural Networks
• Examination of Masters and PhD theses
• Undergraduate and graduate teaching
• Optical and infrared photometric and spectroscopic observing from ESO (La Silla and VLT), CTIO, KPNO, and Calar Alto
• Member of the Astronomische Gesellschaft
• Member of the International Astronomical Union (IAU) and formerly of IAU Commission 45 (Stellar Classification)
• Scientific organizing committee of various meetings

A brief biography

After completing a degree in physics at Oxford University in 1993, I went to the University of Cambridge to study at the Institute of Astronomy. I completed my PhD there at the end of 1996 working with Mike Irwin, Gerry Gilmore and Ted von Hippel. I then did a one and a half year postdoc within the Inferential Sciences Group at the Cavendish Laboratory (Cambridge's physics department), where I worked on the modelling of materials processing with David Mackay and Phil Withers. During this time I was also a member of the Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy and was a research fellow at St Edmund's College. In July 1998 I moved to the Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie, one of the research institutions of the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft. In October 2002 I started a fellowship in the Emmy Noether-Programm of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (see this press release). As part of this program I was a visiting scientist at the Physics department of Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh during 2003. From 2004 to 2008 I led an Emmy Noether research group at the Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie working on brown dwarfs and preparation for the Gaia data analysis. Since 2006 I lead a DLR-funded group to develop an object classification and stellar parameter estimation system for the Gaia survey. Since 2008 I am a permanent research staff member in the Galaxies and Cosmology Department. In 2010 I spent a six month sabbatical at the Laboratory for Particle Physics and Cosmology at Harvard University (thanks to my host, Chris Stubbs).

Daniela Bailer-Jones