Dr. Sven Zschocke

1. SCIENTIFIC CAREER

1990 - 1995 Study of Physics at TU Dresden
1996 Diploma Thesis (theoretical solid-state physics) at University Leipzig
1997-2001 PhD Thesis (theoretical atomphysics) at TU Dresden
2000-2005 Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf
2005-2006 Bergen University / Norway
since 2006 Lohrmann-Observatory TU Dresden

2. SHORT-TERM RESEARCH STAY

2001 JINR / Dubna / Russia
2002 JINR / Dubna / Russia
2003 National University of Ukraine / Kiev / Ukraine
2003 KFKI / Budapest / Hungary
2004 FIAS / Frankfurt a.M. / Germany
2009 Bergen University / Bergen / Norway
2010 Bergen University / Bergen / Norway
2014 Bergen University / Bergen / Norway

3. ESA certificate in recognition for outstanding contribution made for Gaia mission

The ESA astrometry mission Gaia is an all-sky survey, measuring the positions of about 1 billion stellar objects up to stellar magnitude of V=20 and with an accuracy on the micro-arcsecond level.

For more information see:

    The Gaia mission
      https://arXiv.org astro-ph/1609.04153

    ESA certificate (October 2015)

4. MEMBER OF THE EDITORIAL BOARD "Frontiers of Astrometry and Space Science"

"Frontiers of Astrometry and Space Science" is the most-cited open-access journal in astrometric science.

For more information see:
https://loop.frontiersin.org/people/274425/overview

5. SUPPORTING MEMBER OF THE MISSION PROPOSAL Theia

Theia is a new space-based astrometry mission proposed to ESA based on relative astrometry and extreme precision on sub-micro-arcsecond level to study the motion of very faint objects in the Universe.

For more information see:

Theia: Faint objects in motion or the new astrometry frontier
https://arXiv.org astro-ph/1707.01348

6. INDIVIDUAL MEMBER OF THE INTERNATIONAL ASTRONOMICAL UNION (IAU)
https://www.iau.org/
https://www.iau.org/administration/membership/individual/18902/

7. REFEREE OF THE JOURNALS

      Physical Review A
      Physical Review C
      Physical Review D
      Classical and Quantum Gravity
      European Physical Journal A
      European Physical Journal D
      European Journal of Physics
      Zeitschrift für Naturforschung A
      Astronomy & Astrophysics
      General Relativity and Gravitation

      IOP certificate Trusted Reviewer (October 2025)
        https://ioppublishing.org/peer-review-excellence/

8. PUBLICATIONS IN PEER REVIEWED JOURNALS

2018

S. Zschocke:
"Light propagation in 2PN approximation in the field of one moving monopole
I. Initial value problem"
Classical and Quantum Gravity 35 (2018) 055013.
A.G.A. Brown, A. Vallenari, T. Prusti, et al.:
"Gaia Data Release 2. Summary of the contens and survey properties"
Astronomy and Astrophysics 616 (2018) A1.
F. Mignard, S.A. Klioner, L. Lindegren, et al.:
"Gaia Data Release 2. The Celestial reference frame (Gaia-CRF2)"
Astronomy and Astrophysics 616 (2018) A14.
F. Spoto, P. Tanga, F. Mignard, et al.:
"Gaia Data Release 2. Observations of solar system objects"
Astronomy and Astrophysics 616 (2018) A13.
D. Katz, T. Antoja, M. Romero-Gomez, et al.:
"Gaia Data Release2. Mapping the Milky Way disc kinematics"
Astronomy and Astrophysics 616 (2018) A11.
C. Babusiaux, F. van Leeuwen, M.A. Barstow, et al.:
"Gaia Data Release 2. Observational Hertzsprung-Russel diagrams"
Astronomy and Astrophysics 616 (2018) A10.
A. Helmi, F. van Leeuwen, P.J. McMillan, et al.:
"Gaia Data Release 2. Kinematics of globular clusters and dwarf galaxies around the Milky Way"
Astronomy and Astrophysics 616 (2018) A12.

2017

F. van Leeuwen, A. Vallenari, C. Jordi, et al.:
"Gaia Data Release 1. Open cluster astrometry: performance, limitations, and future prospects"
Astronomy and Astrophysics 601 (2017) A19.
G. Clementini, L. Eyer, V. Ripepi, et al.:
"Gaia Data Release 1. Testing the parallaxes with local Cepheids and RR Lyrae stars"
Astronomy and Astrophysics 605 (2017) A79.

2016

S. Zschocke:
"Light propagation in the field of one arbitrarily moving pointlike body in the 2PN approximation"
Physical Review D 94 (2016) 124007.
S. Zschocke:
"Light propagation in the gravitational field of N arbitrarily moving bodies in the 1.5PN approximation for high-precision astrometry"
Physical Review D 93 (2016) 103010.
T. Prusti, J.H.J. Bruijne, A.G.A. Brown, et al.:
"The Gaia mission"
Astronomy and Astrophysics 595 (2016) A1.
A.G.A. Brown, A. Vallenari, T. Prusti, et al.:
"Gaia Data Release 1. Summary of the astrometric, photometric, and survey properties"
Astronomy and Astrophysics 595 (2016) A2.
L. Lindegren, U. Lammers, U. Bastian, et al.:
"Gaia Data Release 1. Astrometry - one billion positions, two million proper motions and parallaxes"
Astronomy and Astrophysics 595 (2016) A4.

2015

S. Zschocke:
"Light propagation in the gravitational field of N arbitrarily moving bodies in 1PN approximation for high-precision astrometry"
Physical Review D 92 (2015) 063015.

2014

S. Zschocke:
"A detailed proof of the fundamental theorem of STF multipole expansion in linearized gravity"
International Journal of Modern Physics D 23 (2014) 1450003.
S. Zschocke, M.H. Soffel:
"Gravitational field of one uniformly moving extended body and N arbitrarily moving pointlike bodies in post-Minkowskian approximation"
Classical and Quantum Gravity 31 (2014) 175001.

2012

S. Zschocke:
"Light deflection in binary stars"
The Astronomical Journal 144 (2012) 77.

2011

S. Zschocke:
"A generalized lens equation for light-deflection in weak gravitational fields"
Classical and Quantum Gravity 28 (2011) 125016.
S. Zschocke, S.A. Klioner:
"On the efficient computation of the quadrupole light-deflection"
Classical and Quantum Gravity 28 (2011) 015009.
S. Zschocke, Sz. Horvat, I. Mishustin, L.P. Csernai:
"Non-equlibrium hadronization and constituent quark number scaling"
Physical Review C 83 (2011) 044903.
S. Zschocke, T. Hilger, B. Kämpfer:
"In-medium operator product expansion for heavy-light-quark pseudoscalar mesons"
European Physical Journal A 47 (2011) 151.

2010

S.A. Klioner, S. Zschocke:
"Numerical versus analytical accuracy of the formulas for light-propagation"
Classical and Quantum Gravity 27 (2010) 075015.

2009

S. Zschocke, L.P. Csernai:
"Pion mass shift and the kinetic freeze out process"
European Physical Journal A 39 (2009) 349.

2006

R. Thomas, K. Gallmeister, S. Zschocke, B. Kämpfer:
"Electromagnetic probes of strongly interacting matter: probes of chiral symmetry restauration?"
Acta Physica Hungarica A 27 (2006) 35.

2005

S. Zschocke, B. Kämpfer, G. Plunien:
"Algebraic approach to bare nucleon matrix elements"
Physical Review D 72 (2005) 014005.
S. Zschocke, L. Csernai, E. Molnar, J. Manninen, A. Nyiri:
"Impact of nucleon mass shift on the freeze out process"
Physical Review C 72 (2005) 064909.
R. Thomas, S. Zschocke, B. Kämpfer:
"Evidence for in-medium changes of four-quark condensates"
Physical Review Letters 95 (2005) 232301.

2004

S. Zschocke, B. Kämpfer:
"rho-omega splitting and mixing in nuclear matter"
Physical Review C 70 (2004) 035207.
B. Kämpfer, S. Zschocke:
"Finite width QCD sum rules for rho and omega mesons"
Prog. Part. Nucl. Phys. 53 (2004) 317.

2003

S. Zschocke, O. P. Pavlenko, B. Kämpfer:
"In-medium spectral change of omega-meson as a probe of QCD four-quark condensate"
Physics Letters B 562 (2003) 57.
B. Kämpfer, O. P. Pavlenko, S. Zschocke:
"Probing the strange quark condensate by dielectrons from phi-meson decays in heavy ion collisions at SIS energies"
European Physical Journal A 17 (2003) 83.

2002

S. Zschocke, G. Plunien, G. Soff:
"Renormalization of the two-photon vacuum polarization and selfenergy-vacuum polarization of a tightly bound electron"
European Physical Journal D 19 (2002) 147.
S. Zschocke, O. P. Pavlenko, B. Kämpfer:
"Evaluation of QCD sum rules for light vector mesons at finite density and temperature"
European Physical Journal A 15 (2002) 529.
I.Goidenko, G. Plunien, A. Nefiodov, S. Zschocke, L. Labzowsky, G. Soff:
"Evidence for the absence of regularization corrections to the partial-wave renormalization procedure"
Physical Review A 65 (2002) 042110.

2001

I.G. Goidenko, L.N. Labzowsky, A. Nefiodov, G. Plunien, G. Soff, S. Zschocke:
"Evaluation of the two-photon self-energy correction for hydrogen-like ions"
Hyperfine Interactions 132 (2001) 397.
G. Soff, I. Bednyakov, T. Beier, F. Erler, I.A. Goidenko, U.D. Jentschura, L.N. Labzowsky, A.V. Nefiodov, G. Plunien, R. Schützhold, S. Zschocke:
"Effects of QED and beyond from the atomic binding energy"
Hyperfine Interactions 132 (2001) 75.
I.A. Goidenko, L.N. Labzowsky, A.V. Nefiodov, U.D. Jentschura, G. Plunien, S. Zschocke, G. Soff:
"Radiative corrections in highly charged ions and tests of QED in strong electric and magnetic fields"
Physica Scripta T92 (2001) 426.
I.A. Goidenko, L.N. Labzowsky, A.V. Nefiodov, G. Plunien, S. Zschocke, G. Soff:
"Second-order self-energy calculations for tightly bound electrons in hydrogen-like ions"
Lecture Notes in Physics 570 (2001) 619.

2000

I.A. Goidenko, L.N. Labzowsky, A.V. Nefiodov, G. Plunien, G. Soff, S. Zschocke:
"Estimate of the second order electron self energy corrections in highly charged heavy ions"
Hyperfine Interactions 127 (2000) 293.

1998

T. Beier, M. Beinker, E. Persson, S. Zschocke, G. Soff:
"QED of strong fields: Status and recent developments"
Hyperfine Interactions 114 (1998) 3.

9. TECHNICAL REPORTS OF ESA ASTROMETRY MISSION GAIA

S. Zschocke: "A generalized lens equation for small light-deflection angles", arXiv (2011).
S. Zschocke: "Light-propagation in the gravitational field of moving quadrupoles", arXiv (2011).
S. Zschocke: "Light deflection in binary systems on microarcsecond level", arXiv (2011).
S. Zschocke, S.A. Klioner: "Further simplification of the light deflection formula for solar system objects", arXiv (2010).
S. Zschocke, S.A. Klioner: "Formal proof of some inequalities used in the analysis of the post-post-Newtonian light propagation theory", arXiv (2009).
S. Zschocke, S.A. Klioner: "Analytical solution for light propagation in Schwarzschild field having an accuracy of 1 micro-arcsecond", arXiv (2009).
S.A. Klioner, S. Zschocke: "Parametrized post-post-Newtonian analytical solution for light propagation", arXiv (2009).
S.A. Klioner, S. Zschocke: "Using a coordinate-independent impact parameter in the post-post-Newtonian light deflection formula", arXiv (2009).
S. Zschocke, S.A. Klioner: "Efficient computation of the quadrupole light deflection in the Gaia relativity model", arXiv (2006).

10. CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS IN ASTROMETRIC SCIENCE

S.A. Klioner, S. Zschocke, M.H. Soffel, A.G. Butkevich: "Testing local Lorentz invariance with high-accuracy astrometric observations", 12^th Marcel Grossmann Meeting, 12-18 July 2009, Paris, France.
S. Zschocke, S.A. Klioner, M.H. Soffel: "Towards sub-microarcsecond models for relativistic astrometry", Conference Les Journées: "Scientific developments from highly accurate space-time reference systems", 16-18 September 2013, Observatoire de Paris, France.
S. Zschocke: "Light propagation in the Solar System for astrometry on sub-micro-arcsecond level", IAU Symposium 330: "Astrometry and Astrophysics in the Gaia sky", 24-28 April 2017, Nice, France.
S. Zschocke: "Post-linear metric of a solar system body", Conference Les Journées: "Astrometry, Earth Rotation and Reference Systems in the Gaia era", 7 - 9 October 2019, Observatoire de Paris, France.
S. Zschocke: "Total light deflection in the gravitational fields of solar system bodies", Conference Les Journées: "Time and General Relativity", 11 - 13 September 2023, Université Côte d'Azur, Nice/France, ISBN: 978-2-901057-74-1.

11. RECENT TALKS IN ASTROMETRIC SCIENCE

Workshop "Models of Gravity", September 2018, ZARM, Bremen University, Germany:
"Light propagation in the Solar System for high-precision astrometry"

     Journées 2019 "Astrometry, Earth Rotation and Reference Systems in the Gaia Era",
     October 2019, Paris Observatory, France:
      "On the post-linear metric of a solar system body"

     Seminar-Talk I,II,III, Lohrmann Observatory, Dresden University, 3,4,18 September 2020:
     "Multipolar Post-Minkowskian Formalism"

      Seminar Talk, Lohrmann Observatory, Dresden University, 21 April 2023:
     "Total light deflection in the field of axisymmetric bodies with full multipole structure"

Journées 2023 "Time and General Relativity",
      September 2023, Université Côte d'Azur, Nice/France:
      "Total light deflection in the gravitational fields of solar system bodies"

       Seminar Talk, Lohrmann Observatoty, Dresden University, 12 April 2024:
       Theory of light propagation

MWGaiaDN School "Gravitation and Astrometry", Dresden University, September 2025:
  Beyond GREM: Relativity for higher accuracy

12. LECTURES AND EXERCISE COURSES

12.1 Lectures

1. Physics I, WS 2026/2027, TU Dresden,
BEY/Hörsaal 245, Mo 13.00 - 14.30 Uhr, 12.10. 2026 - 01.02. 2027

2. Physics II, SS 2026, TU Dresden,
BEY/Hörsaal 245, Mo 11.10 - 12.40 Uhr, 13.04. 2026 - 26.07. 2026

3. Physics I, WS 2025/2026, TU Dresden,
HSZ/Hörsaal 204, Mo 14.50 - 16.20 Uhr, 13.10. 2025 - 02.02. 2026

4. Physics II, SS 2025, TU Dresden,
        SCH/Hörsaal A117, Mo 13.00 - 14.30 Uhr,    07.04. 2025 - 19.07. 2025

5. Physics I, WS 2024/2025, TU Dresden,
        SCH/Hörsaal A101, Mo 11.10 - 12.40 Uhr,    21.10. 2024 - 03.02. 2025

6. Physics II, SS 2024, TU Dresden,
        SCH/Hörsaal A117, Mo 13.00 - 14.30 Uhr,    08.04. 2024 - 15.07. 2024

7. Physics I, WS 2023/2024, TU Dresden,
        BAR/Hörsaal 213, Mo 11.10 - 12.40 Uhr,      09.10. 2023 - 29.01. 2024

8. Physics II, SS 2023, TU Dresden,
        SCH/Hörsaal A117, Mo 13.00 - 14.30 Uhr,    03.04. 2023 - 10.07. 2023

9. Physics I, WS 2022/2023, TU Dresden
        HSZ/Hörsaal 401, Mo 11.10 - 12.40 Uhr,       17.10. 2022 - 30.01. 2023

10. Quantum Electrodynamics, SS 2006, BCPL, Bergen University, Norway

11. Supersymmetry I - IV, SS 1998, Intitute of Theoretical Physics, TU Dresden

12.2 Exercise Courses

     1. Physics II, SS 2013, TU Dresden

     2. Physics I, WS 2012/2013, TU Dresden

     3. Physics II, SS 2011, TU Dresden

     4. Gravitational Theory, WS 2003/2004, HZDR Rossendorf

     5. Classical Mechanics I, SS 2000, TU Dresden

     6. Quantum Theory II, WS 1999/2000, TU Dresden

     7. Classical Electrodynamics, SS 1998, TU Dresden

     8. Thermodynamics, WS 1997/1998, TU Dresden

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