Werner Landgraf is a German astrophysicist born on 29 July 1959 in Mainz.
Education
West. Landgraf studied physics at the University of Siegen in 1977 and was working on his first astronomical projects. He graduated from the university in 1983, and then he worked until 1988 on his dissertation Nongravitational forces of Comet Halley., under supervision by H.H.Voigt.
Career
His earliest work was very inspired by B.G.Marsden and V.Shor. Two years later, he joined the Department of Astrophysics of University of Göttingen. There he presented his thesis The calculation of atmospheric models and line profiles for the analysis of stellar spectra.
In 1986, West. Landgraf received a teaching position at the University of Siegen.
In addition to the main lecture about astronomy and astrophysics, he gave lectures also on solar system objects and their motion, Relativity and Cosmology.