Hönig works on the theory and observations of
active galactic nuclei (AGN), dust tori and dusty winds. He received his PhD (Dr. rer. nat.) from the
University of Bonn with work carried out in the Infrared Interferometry group at the
Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy. During this time he developed a new
Radiative transfer to interpret
infrared observations of AGN. In 2010, Hönig received a
DFG Fellowship and moved to the
University of California, Santa Barbara working with Robert Antonucci. During this time, he used
VLTI observations of two
Seyfert galaxies to show that dusty winds contribute significantly to the infrared radiation from these objects. Hönig received a
Marie Skłodowska-Curie (2014) and an ERC Starting Grant (2015) at the
University of Southampton to study this phenomenon in more detail. He is involved in the development of instruments for the
Paranal Observatory of the
European Southern Observatory (ESO). Hönig is Co-Investigator of GRAVITY+, an upgrade to the
GRAVITY instrument. He is member of the Time Domain Extragalactic Survey (TiDES) using the 4MOST instrument at ESO's
VISTA telescope and leads the AGN
reverberation mapping sub-survey. == Comets and minor planets ==