Young Scientist Award Goes To Francisco Kitaura

The research award 2013 for young scientists goes to Dr. Francisco-Shu Kitaura. The AIP scientist is awarded for his work on large-scale galaxy structures. He and his team set up an artificial intelligence algorithm to help them chart and explain the structure and dynamics of the universe around us.

This years publication award goes to Dr. Ricarda Winkelmann.

The key areas of research at the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP) are cosmic magnetic fields and extragalactic astrophysics. A considerable part of the institute's efforts aim at the development of research technology in the fields of spectroscopy, robotic telescopes, and e-science. The AIP is the successor of the Berlin Observatory founded in 1700 and of the Astrophysical Observatory of Potsdam founded in 1874. The latter was the world's first observatory to emphasize explicitly the research area of astrophysics. The AIP has been a member of the Leibniz Association since 1992.