Humboldt Research Fellowship for Jenny Sorce
Dr. Jenny Sorce
Credit: AIPThe Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP) welcomes Jenny Sorce, who received a Humboldt Research Fellowship for Postdoctoral Researchers.
For the next two years she will collaborate with the AIP cosmologists at the intersection of the international projects CosmicFlows and CLUES.
Jenny Sorce obtained her bachelor of science at the Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon and got her PhD in Astrophysics, Cosmology at the Universities of Lyon and Potsdam under the supervision of Prof. Helene Courtois and Professor Matthias Steinmetz. During her PhD, she also worked in close collaboration with Dr. Stefan Gottlöber and the Wempe awardees of 2010 and 2014 Professor Brent Tully and Professor Yehuda Hoffman. She spent her research time between Lyon, Potsdam and Hawaii.
Jenny measured surface photometry of galaxies to obtain their distances using the Tully-Fisher relation. These accurate distance estimates allow for mapping the local deviations from the Hubble expansion, i.e. the radial peculiar velocities of galaxies. Based on these observational data it is possible to reconstruct the state of the local Universe some 13 billion years ago and to use this information as constrained initial condition for numerical simulations. Such constrained simulations are an excellent tool to study the evolution of the Milky Way.
Contakt: Dr. Jenny Sorce, jsorce@aip.de, +49 331 7499-647
Media contact: Kerstin Mork, presse@aip.de, +49 331 7499-469
Dr. Jenny Sorce
Credit: AIPThe Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP) welcomes Jenny Sorce, who received a Humboldt Research Fellowship for Postdoctoral Researchers.
For the next two years she will collaborate with the AIP cosmologists at the intersection of the international projects CosmicFlows and CLUES.
Jenny Sorce obtained her bachelor of science at the Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon and got her PhD in Astrophysics, Cosmology at the Universities of Lyon and Potsdam under the supervision of Prof. Helene Courtois and Professor Matthias Steinmetz. During her PhD, she also worked in close collaboration with Dr. Stefan Gottlöber and the Wempe awardees of 2010 and 2014 Professor Brent Tully and Professor Yehuda Hoffman. She spent her research time between Lyon, Potsdam and Hawaii.
Jenny measured surface photometry of galaxies to obtain their distances using the Tully-Fisher relation. These accurate distance estimates allow for mapping the local deviations from the Hubble expansion, i.e. the radial peculiar velocities of galaxies. Based on these observational data it is possible to reconstruct the state of the local Universe some 13 billion years ago and to use this information as constrained initial condition for numerical simulations. Such constrained simulations are an excellent tool to study the evolution of the Milky Way.
Contakt: Dr. Jenny Sorce, jsorce@aip.de, +49 331 7499-647
Media contact: Kerstin Mork, presse@aip.de, +49 331 7499-469
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