Education
Steinmetz has a Bachelor of Surgery in Mathematics and Physics of the Saarland University (1988) and a Master of Surgery in Physics of the Technical University of Munich (1991).
Astronomer astrophysicist university professor
Steinmetz has a Bachelor of Surgery in Mathematics and Physics of the Saarland University (1988) and a Master of Surgery in Physics of the Technical University of Munich (1991).
He is director of the Astrophysical Institute Potsdam (AIP) and professor at the University of Potsdam. Steinmetz is a specialist in the areas of cosmology, the formation and evolution of galaxies and computational astrophysics. He received his Doctor of Philosophy in Physics in 1993 at the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics in Garching.
He was postdoctoral fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics and at the Department for Astronomy at the University of California, Berkeley.
In 1996 he joined the faculty of Steward Observatory at the University of Arizona in Tucson. Since 2002 he is director of the Astrophysical Institute Potsdam (AIP) and professor at University of Potsdam.
He also holds a position of adjunct professor at Steward Observatory.
Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities.