Prof. Dr. Dominik Riechers
- 2024 – present: GLOW Science Working Group: Short Wavelengths & New Initiatives, Chair
- 2023 – 2024: Department Director of Physics, University of Cologne
- 2023 – present: Executive Board member & project PI (projects C1–3, C6) DFG CRC 1601
- 2022 – present: CCAT Observatory Board of Directors, Member
- 2022 – present: German CCAT Science Consortium, Chair
- 2022 – present: Verein für datenintensive Radioastronomie (VdR), WG 1/2 Chair
- 2022 – present: Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF), Reviewer
- 2020 – 2021: National Science Foundation (NSF), Reviewer
- 2019 – present: NRAO Extra Large Proposal Science Advisory Committee (X-SAC), Member
- 2017 – present: Atacama Large-Aperture Submm/mm Telescope (AtLAST) Science Working Group, Member
- 2016 – 2021: NRAO Next Generation VLA (ngVLA) Executive Committee, Member
- 2016 – 2021: NRAO Next Generation VLA (ngVLA) Science Advisory Council, Member
- 2016 – 2020: SPICA/BLISS Science Working Group, Member
- 2016 – present: CCAT/FYST Science Working Group: Intensity Mapping, Chair
- 2016 – present: CCAT/FYST Science Working Group: Galaxy Surveys, Member
- 2015 – present: JCMT/East Asian Observatory Large Programs, External Reviewer
- 2015 – 2018: NRAO Time Allocation Committee (TAC), Chair
- 2015 – 2017: ALMA North American Science Advisory Committee (ANASAC), Member
- 2014 – present: NRAO Next Generation VLA (ngVLA) Science Working Group (SWG), Chair: Galaxy Evolution SWG (until 2021)/Member
- 2014 – 2021: NASA Postdoctoral Program (NPP), Reviewer
- 2014 – 2018: NRAO HiZ Science Review Panel (SRP), Chair
- 2014 – 2015: Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope (CFHT), External Proposal Reviewer
- 2013 – 2017: NRAO User’s Committee, Member
- 2013 – 2016: CCAT Science Working Group, Member
- 2013 – 2014: NRAO Director’s AUI Science Working Group, Member
- 2011 – present: Conference SOC chair or member for 7 international meetings
- 2011 – 2012: Keck/Palomar Time Allocation Committee, Member
- 2008 – 2012: CARMA Astronomer on Duty (133 days), Observer
- 2008 – 2010: CARMA Time Allocation Committee, Member
- 2008 – present: Nature, Science, Astrophysical Journal (ApJ), ApJ Letters, MNRAS, Astronomy & Astrophysics (+Letters), Manuscript Referee
- Member of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (AvH)
- Member of the International Astronomical Union (IAU)
- Member of the American Astronomical Society (AAS)
- Chair/member of University of Cologne Faculty Search Committees; member of IMPRS Bonn/Cologne Admissions Committee
- Major collaboration memberships: Cosmic Evolution Survey (COSMOS), Herschel Multi-tiered Extragalactic Survey (HerMES), Herschel-ATLAS, CO Luminosity Density at High Redshift (COLDz)
Survey (PI; VLA Large Program), ALMA Spectroscopic Survey (ASPECS; ALMA Large Program), ALPINE (ALMA Large Program), REBELS (ALMA Large Program), z-GAL (NOEMA Large Program), Vz-GAL (PI; VLA Large Program), CCAT/FYST (founding member), Simons Observatory, Atacama Cosmology Telescope/ACTPol
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- Riechers, D. A., Weiß, A., et int., Neri, R., Microwave background temperature at a redshift of 6.34 from H2O absorption, 2022, Nature, 602, 59, DOI: 10.1038/s41586-021-04294-5
- Riechers, D. A., Boogaard, L. A., et int., van der Werf, P., VLA-ALMA Spectroscopic Survey in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field (VLASPECS): Total Cold Gas Masses and CO Line Ratios for z = 2-3 Main-sequence Galaxies, 2020, ApJ, 896, L21, DOI: 10.3847/2041-8213/ab9595
- Riechers, D. A., Pavesi, R., et int., Wagg, J., COLDz: Shape of the CO Luminosity Function at High Redshift and the Cold Gas History of the Universe, 2019, ApJ, 872, 7, DOI: 10.3847/1538- 4357/aafc27
- Riechers, D. A., Leung, T. K. D., et int., Weiss, A., Rise of the Titans: A Dusty, Hyper-luminous “870 μm Riser” Galaxy at z~6, 2017, ApJ, 850, 1, DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/aa8ccf
- Riechers, D. A., Carilli, C. L., et int., Yan, L., ALMA Imaging of Gas and Dust in a Galaxy Protocluster at Redshift 5.3: [C II] Emission in “Typical” Galaxies and Dusty Starbursts ~1 Billion Years after the Big Bang, 2014, ApJ, 796, 84, DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/796/2/84
- Riechers, D.A., Pope, A., et int., Elbaz, D., Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon and Mid-Infrared Continuum Emission in a z > 4 Submillimeter Galaxy, 2014, ApJ, 786, 31, DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/786/1/31
- Riechers, D. A., Bradford, C. M., et int., Zmuidzinas, J. A dust-obscured massive maximum- starburst galaxy at a redshift of 6.34, 2013, Nature, 496, 329, DOI: 10.1038/nature12050
- Riechers, D. A., Hodge, J., et int., Bertoldi, F., Extended Cold Molecular Gas Reservoirs in z≃3.4 Submillimeter Galaxies, 2011, ApJ, 739, L31, DOI: 10.1088/2041-8205/739/1/L31
- Riechers, D. A., Capak, P. L., et int., Yan, L., A Massive Molecular Gas Reservoir in the z = 5.3 Submillimeter Galaxy AzTEC-3, 2010, ApJ, 720, L131, DOI: 10.1088/2041-8205/720/2/L131
- Riechers, D. A., Walter, F., et int., Menten, K. M., Imaging Atomic and Highly Excited Molecular Gas in a z = 6.42 Quasar Host Galaxy: Copious Fuel for an Eddington-limited Starburst at the End of Cosmic Reionization, 2009, ApJ, 703, 1338, DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/703/2/1338
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